European Union has already made rules of slots’ loss less stringent after coronavirus pandemic started. At the same time in August Wizz Air argued against prolongation of such scheme for winter season speaking that restrictions do not allow the company to expand in the key airports. Low-cost company referred to the fact that the process of the flights’ resumption of the airline companies that still…
American corporation Boeing is getting ready to launch airplanes 777X on the market several months later than scheduled due to demand reduction on the background of crises with COVID-19. It is informed that company is going to begin deliveries of the longest passenger airplane in the world after recovering air transportation. In such a way delay may take from several months to a year. According…
Florent Birling the Head of eWAS Portfolio, SITA FOR AIRCRAFT, underlined: “We are excited to enable Condor to stay ahead in the post-COVID-19 environment by deploying new solutions for their pilots and dispatchers. We are further developing our flight efficiency and green operation solutions to allow airlines to reduce their cost and CO2 footprint.”. SITA airline company is IT-provider in the field of air transport….
Airline company European Aviation Group registered in Great Britain plans to convert up to ten airplanes Airbus A340-600 into cargo version. This type of aircrafts is the longest among ever manufactured Airbus airplanes (75,4 meters). Company explains this decision with the fact that demand for individual protective equipment and other health care products transportation exceeds available capacities of the cargo compartments of passenger airplanes that…
International rating agency S&P Global Ratings (S&P) cut long-term ratings of Airbus in national and international currencies from “A+” to “A”, the forecast is negative. Short-term ratings of the company in both currencies were reduced to “A-1” from “A-1+”. All ratings were taken out the list for CreditWatch reconsideration with possibility of reduction. “We expect that Airbus SE will announce reduction in yield in 2020…
European aviation group of companies Airbus made first stage of tests of the automatic system of visual taxiing, take-off and landing. As Aviation Week writes during tests the airplane Airbus A350 equipped with this system made six flights including one during which airplane in fully automatic mode made taxiing on the fly ground, take-off and landing. In all cases automatic used for airplane control only…
Italy and Turkey prohibited hand baggage transportation in the overhead stowage bin of the airplanes of all airline companies. Restriction was introduced as coronavirus infection COVID-19 control measures. It is expected that this will allow reducing queue formation in the airplane during boarding and take-off when passengers before taking seats place hand baggage in the overhead stowage bins. However as alternative travelers were offered to…
Airbus as well as many other companies that suffered from coronavirus economy crises develops additional measures to increase sanitary safety of the airplanes. As press release of European consortium says manufacturer addressed with this initiative to employees. And Airbus employees already offered more than 1400 interesting ideas. In particular, in the field of materials, protective screens, cabin equipment, antibacterial surfaces and hands free equipment in…
First reason is four-engine “superjumbos” consume too much fuel. “Even taking into consideration fallen in price fuel its consumption per one passenger appears to be too high”, – experts mark. Second reason. There are just no people to fully fill the cabins of superjumbos. And here coronavirus also had no small share: flying giants even before the pandemic flew half-full but now taking into consideration…
American company AeroTEC together with magniX made first flight tests of electrified passenger airplane Cessna 208B Grand Caravan. It is the biggest electric airplane in the world. Flight test took place in Grant County airport in Moses Lake, Washington state. The tests were considered successful. Cessna Caravan spent in the sky about 30 minutes. The airplane landed not far from Seattle. The airplane’s speed was…