Thirty Saudi Arabian students have arrived in New Zealand to start air traffic control training with air traffic services provider Airways. This is the fourth group of students to be trained by Airways from Saudi Arabia’s civil air services provider, the General Authority of Civil Aviation of Saudi Arabia (GACA) – helping to fill a … Read more
Morocco and Djibouti signed an air services agreement to strengthen technical cooperation in civil aviation. The agreement was signed by Minister of Equipment, Transportation and Logistics H.E. Mr. Aziz Rabbah and his Djibouti counterpart H.E. Mr. Mohamed Abdoulkader Moussa. It aims to grant appointed air transport firms more traffic rights (based on 3rd and 4th … Read more
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST) has awarded Virgin Galactic an operating license for SpaceShipTwo. The license award comes as the new vehicle, VSS Unity, begins to stretch its legs with the first tests conducted out of the hangar. Unity conducted the first taxi test today to evaluate and calibrate … Read more
Pemco World Air Services has announced the redelivery of its 100th B737-300 converted aircraft, which was modified for SF Airlines, the air cargo division of S.F. Express. The 100thB737-300 conversion marks the 16th -300/-400 PEMCO-converted aircraft (MSN 29068) for SF Airlines with three more planned in 2016. VP of SF Airlines Liang Xi said: “Since inducting the … Read more
Etihad Airways Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner touched down in Shanghai today from Abu Dhabi on its first flight into China. Flight EY862 from Abu Dhabi departed at 10.25pm yesterday from the Middle East arriving in Shanghai at 11.10am today. The inaugural flight from Shanghai (EY867) will depart again on 3 August at 00.30am, arriving back in … Read more
Emirates has announced that it will resume flights to Conakry, the capital of Guinea, from 30th October 2016. The flight to Conakry will be linked to Emirates’ four times weekly service between Dubai and Dakar, and will once again provide both business and leisure travellers in Guinea global connectivity through the airline’s network, particularly to … Read more
DHL Express launched a new flight service between Phnom Penh and Bangkok, one of its hubs in Asia Pacific. This express freighter service, the first operating to and from Phnom Penh, adds to the existing DHL Express flights between its hubs in Bangkok and Singapore, extending the Cambodian capital’s trade ties to more markets globally. … Read more
Cargolux Airlines International has appointed Claude Zehren ‘Interim EVP and Nominated Person Flight Operations’.
Wizz Air today started operating its new service from Sofia to Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg flight departed from Sofia with 154 passengers on board, while 170 passengers flew with the maiden flight from Nuremberg to Sofia. The newest Wizz Air route is operated two times per week on Mondays and Fridays. Nuremberg is the second-largest … Read more
Denis V. Ilyin, Executive President of AirBridgeCargo Airlines LLC, has resigneds after three years of work in accordance with mutual agreements.