Aviation Middle East

Simple Flying | January 17, 2020

Virgin Australia has inked a new deal with Japan’s ANA to begin operating codeshares throughout Australia and eventually internationally! These new codeshare flights will greatly improve access between the two nations and will, one day, allow bilateral travel amongst the two partners’ networks. Virgin Australia has been lucky enough to secure one of two landing slots to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport in time for the Summer Olympics. Capitalizing on the new opportunity, the airline plan...

Aviation Technology

EmbraerX | February 03, 2022

EmbraerX (B3: EMBR3,NYSE: ERJ) signed an agreement with Jet Flight Service (JFS), a global MRO service provider headquartered in Russia certified by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport (FATA). This partnership is supporting Jet Flight Service (JFS) in gaining efficiencies by onboarding their teams into Beacon's multi-sided platform. After seeing the market adopt Beacon across Central and Eastern Europe, JFS decided to j...

Air Transport

CAE | July 09, 2021

CAE, a global leader in aviation training, and Volocopter, a pioneer in urban air mobility (UAM), announced today the signing of a strategic partnership to develop, certify, and deploy an innovative pilot training program for electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) operations, subject to final agreement. This eVTOL pilot training program, a first in the industry, will develop the pilot workforce of the future and ensure the safe introduction of eVTOL operations globally by leveraging CAE&#...

HK Express | October 01, 2020

Cathay Pacific’s low-cost offshoot, HK Express, is jumping onboard the flights to nowhere bandwagon. HK Express is offering three 90 minute flights to nowhere in November. The airline is styling the flights as a “flycation” and promising a good time on the short jaunt over Hong Kong....