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Aviation Technology

Ansys | January 31, 2022

The Nordic Air Racing Team, an official Air Race E team, successfully completed the world's first flight of an all-electric racing plane – the plane was designed and engineered with the help of Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) simulation solutions. As the official simulation software partner of Air Race E, Ansys enables teams to overcome some of the key engineering challenges of fully electric flight. Air Race E, the world's first and only all-electric airplane racing championsh...

Airport Management

Castlelake | December 09, 2021

Castlelake, L.P., ("Castlelake") a global alternative investment manager with 16 years of experience investing in asset-rich opportunities, today announced it has acquired The Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport with Woodbine Development Corporation ("Woodbine"), a full-service real estate company with more than 40 years of development, investment, acquisition and asset management experience. The investment combines insight into passenger traffic and airlin...

Simple Flying | January 28, 2020

Gulf Air yesterday retired its last Airbus A330 yesterday. The 20-year-old aircraft was the last of its type in the Gulf Air fleet, which now uses the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for long haul operations. In March this year, Gulf Air will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its first flight. The flag carrier of Bahrain was originally founded in 1950. Now, 70 years later, another page of the history book has closed as the airline has stored its last Airbus A330 to be retired. The last aircraft has always...

Commercial Aviation

Japan Airlines | March 29, 2022

IFS, the global cloud business software provider, announced that JAL Engineering Co., Ltd., the maintenance and engineering subsidiary of Japan Airlines, has chosen IFS to enable fleet-wide long-range maintenance planning. Long-range planners will be able to swiftly design and distribute regulatory-compliant fleet maintenance plans that best support aircraft availability, task yield, and hangar utilization for over 200 aircraft using the IFS system, which will be hosted in the cloud.
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