Rabat Morocco is participating as an honorary guest in the 2019 Montreal International Aerospace Week, which kicked off on Tuesday, April 17. Morocco’s Minister of Industry, Investment, Trade, and Digital Economy Moulay Hafid Elalamy is participating in the four-day event, along with other officials and aerospace professionals, including Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Navdeep Singh Bains. By attending, Elalamy aims to showcase Morocco’s...
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Red Wings says the A321, a 2006 airframe, is one of four which will be introduced this year to modernise the carrier’s fleet.The new corporate identity is a reflection of our internal changes, says Evgeny Klyucharyov, highlighting on-board service improvements and adjustments to increase business efficiency.Russian bureau Duck Design has produced the revised livery, which features a red logo, resembling a simplified pair of wings, which is replicated in white with the carrier’s name ...
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The Company wishes to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary AirAsia Investment Limited, together with Gumin Company Limited and Hai Au Aviation Joint Stock Company, have amicably agreed to terminate and release each other from all obligations under the transaction agreements in relation to the proposed joint venture in Vietnam, effective 17 April 2019,” says AirAsia in a statement. The carrier initially announced the joint venture in March 2017, and had reiterated its commitment to the...
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As operators across the world scramble to fill capacity gaps created by the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, we present this gallery of aircraft that have been drafted into affected fleets. Enter Air has taken two Boeing 737-800s (including OM-GTF from Slovak charter operator Go2Sky, pictured above in 2017) on wet leases since the 737 Max grounding began, Cirium's Fleets Analyzer shows. The Polish charter carrier had two Max 8s in service on 9 March 2019.Among the aircraft that Air Italy has...
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GECAS will repossess eight aircraft leased to financially troubled Avianca Brazil, as the fleet-depleted airline cancels hundreds of flights during this week's Easter travel season. The lessor will repossess the aircraft beginning 22 April, immediately after the Easter holiday to minimise further travel disruptions for passengers, says Brazil's aviation regulator ANAC. With the GECAS repossession imminent, Avianca Brazil's in-service fleet is slated to shrink to around 22 aircraft ne...
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Nonetheless, Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg gave no timeframes for certification in a video posted on Twitter. He says that the aircraft manufacturer is “making steady progress towards certification. Muilenburg adds that test pilots have completed 120 test flights using the updated manoeuvring characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) software, which has been implicated into two recent 737 Max crashes.He adds that more than 85% of the 737 Max’s customers worldwide have had exposure to...
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For now, tracking planes flying into or out of the Tampa Bay area's airports means air traffic controllers looking at ground-based radar and talking with pilots on the radio. The future will involve GPS tracking coordinated by 24 satellites. Controllers will still use radar, too, but their communication will be more detailed text messaging with pilots in the air. And the result, the Federal Aviation Administration says, will be like going from using fold-out maps to plan a family vacation to...
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Jena Salvetti, a human factors engineer with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center’s Systems Simulation, Software and Integration Directorate, has always had an interest in creating art. From a young age, I could be found drawing, painting and sculpting,” Salvetti said. “Anything crafty or artistic was my activity of choice when I had free time.”Salvetti, who creates military- and superhero-inspired art, gleans much of her ins...
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A group of men walked into a hangar at the Galion airport Tuesday, immediately encircling an airplane they've been building for several months. We like to have at least one project going at all times," said Mike Murphy, the club's vice president. They were members of the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA) Chapter 148, a club that has been based out of the Galion airport for the past decade. The club started in Ashland in 1961, and was located in Wooster and Shelby and a f...
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Join executive editor Graham Dunn and managing editor Lewis Harper as they discuss the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, JetBlue Airways' transatlantic launch, the collapse of Wow Air, the impact of the Boeing 737 Max grounding, and the opening of Turkish Airlines' new mega-hub. Mavis Toh then joins the discussion to talk through this month's Airline Business cover interview with Juneyao Airlines chairman Wang Junjin....
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