Latvian carrier will base in Finnish Tampere. Tampere, city oт the South of Finland with population 230 thousand people will become new base of Latvian hybrid carrier airBaltic. At present moment airline company operates from three base airports located in the capitals of Baltic states: Riga (Latvia), Tallin (Estonia) and Vilnius (Lithuania). In such a way, Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP) will become its first base outside Baltic…
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American airline company American Airlines Group Inc. plans to reduce number of international flights during summer period due to delays in deliveries by aviation company Boeing Co. of new airplanes 787 Dreamliner, The Wall Street Journal newspaper writes with the reference to sources familiar with the matter and daft of the internal document of the company. Company will make flights to Edinburgh, Shannon and Hong…
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Organizers of World Aviation Festival in London informed participants that event will continue according to the schedule, beginning with Tuesday the day when new rules in Great Britain came into force. Group has organized testing in two nearest hotels where delegates who are guests can self-isolate while waiting for the results. According to the person familiar with this matter, separate internal corporate event in Great…
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Widebody four-engine airplane Airbus A340 for the first time landed in Antarctic – informs the web-site of the airline company Hi Fly. Flight 801 of the airline company Hi Fly took off from Cape Town (Republic of South Africa) under the control of Carlos Mirpuri, vice-president of the company. The flight took 5 hours, the airplane has landed on the Wolf’s Fang camp runway on…
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Large-scale program of theoretical and practical researches “Wing of Tomorrow” realized by Airbus company reached significant progress: first full-size prototype of the new wing was assembled; Press Service of the company informs. In the framework of the program “Wing of Tomorrow” are tested the newest composite materials, constructions and techniques of wings’ production and other aerodynamic surfaces and also is being made improvement of technological…
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American Alaska Air Group has formed new corporate policy regarding vaccination of the employees against COVID-19. Company doesn’t make vaccination obligatory requirement to continue professional activity but will stimulate employees who got vaccination and will apply penalty measures to those who refused to be vaccinated and new employees should be vaccinated. As to beginning of September about 75% of employees of Alaska Air Group (includes…
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One of the biggest airline companies of the Northern Europe, Finnish airline company Finnair prohibited to use on its flights cloth masks. Corresponding resolution was published on the carrier’s web-site. Company referred to low efficiency of cloth masks in protection of the tourists against COVID-19 infection. With this regard it recommended to use only medical face masks and FFP masks of N95 standard. “From August…
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Irish airline company Ryanair from August 18th doesn’t accept boarding passes that the passengers acquired through ticket service Kiwi. Now lows-cost company considers them fake – informs Ryanair press service. Thea reason of such decision became the fact that flight search engine gives tickets without complying with Ryanair security protocols. As Ryanair marketing director Dara Brady said, according to EU standards passengers are obliges to…
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Decision to use the airplanes Boeing 737 MAX was notified by Indian airline company Akasa. Indian authorities are going to authorize flights of the aircrafts Boeing 737 MAX in the nearest days. According to the source, India may authorize flights for both, imported and new engines of this model but old aircrafts registered in the republic that have been grounded will need about one month…
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American airline company United Airlines announced plans to buy 15 new supersonic airplanes so that in 2029 to “to return supersonic speeds in aviation”. As BBC reminds supersonic passenger flights have been stopped in 2003 after Air France and British Airlines refused Concord airplanes. New airplane Overture will be manufactured by company from Denver named Boom but test flights are only planned. It is marked…
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