Volga-Dnepr Airlines has completed its first-ever ‘air drop’ by parachuting 208 barrels of fuel from an IL-76TD-90VD freighter onto a remote airfield in the Antarctic. The delivery from Novo will be used for inland scientific missions, vehicles and small airplane operations. The 34-ton shipment was placed onto 26 special parachute platforms and was dropped from … Read more
Alitalia has appointed Cramer Ball as a member of its board of directors, designated to be appointed as Chief Executive Officer from early March 2016. A shareholders meeting convened today, chaired by Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, has appointed Cramer Ball as a member of the board of directors, in substitution of Silvano Cassano who resigned … Read more
Nordic Aviation and its partner airline Adria Airways will start organising flights to Munich from 19 December. The return flights will initially take place once a week, and twice a week on Saturdays from February until the end of March. According to Nordic Aviation board member Erik Sakkov, there has already been a lot of … Read more
The EU’s second highest court has overturned €790m in penalties against 11 airlines for running an air cargo cartel in Europe for six years. The inquiry into the airlines cartel began in 2006 when officials raided the offices of several air cargo companies seeking evidence they were co-ordinating pricing on fuel surcharges. On November 9, … Read more
December 17, 2015 Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Based on an order by Polish travel agencies, Czech Airlines will service new series of charter flights between Radom and Prague from 20 December 2015 to 22 February 2016. Flights in both directions will be operated by ATR 72 or ATR … Read more
London-Luton becomes the 12th airport served by Vueling in the UK and Ireland. The airline will fly to an additional 12 new destinations from the UK next summer. Vueling is about to land for the first time at London-Luton, where the airline will offer direct services to Barcelona and Amsterdam during the 2016 summer season. The double daily … Read more
Deal brings carrier’s order total to 30 Boeing airplanes over the last three months. Boeing and UK Leisure Airline Jet2.com finalized an order today for three Next Generation 737-800s, valued at $288 million at current list prices. Jet2.com previously ordered 27 Next Generation 737-800s in September 2015 and operates an all-Boeing fleet of more than 60 airplanes. Jet2.com is a subsidiary of Dart … Read more
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments After 28 years in Lufthansa Management, Dr Karl-Rudolf Rupprecht is retiring. Effective 1 April 2016, Sören Stark will be appointed to the Executive Board of Lufthansa Cargo with responsibility for Operations. The 48-year-old industrial engineer is currently in charge of aircraft maintenance at Lufthansa Technik. In this post, he is responsible … Read more
Today the Commission adopted new rules for flight recorders, underwater locating devices and aircraft tracking systems, addressing the issues raised by the accident of Air France flight AF447 in June 2009 and the disappearance of Malaysian. A week after the adoption of the new Aviation Strategy and the update of the EU Air Safety List, today … Read more
Alitalia and Air Seychelles, the national airline of the Republic of Seychelles, have enhanced their codeshare agreement to provide Italian air travellers with unprecedented access to Seychelles. Beginning December 19, Alitalia will place its “AZ” flight code on three weekly flights operated by Air Seychelles between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Seychelles. Alitalia had already … Read more