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British Airways Dreamliner suffers nose gear collapse
On June 18, 2021, British Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner suffered a nose gear collapse while standing on a remote parking stand at London Heathrow Airport (LHR), the United Kingdom.
British Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, registered as G-ZBJB, suffered a nose gear collapse while parked on a remote stand at LHR airport, Terminal 5, leaving the aircraft fuselage on the ground.
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A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and a Cargolux Boeing 747 collided on the ground
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and a Cargolux Boeing 747 collided on the ground at Chicago-O’Hare Airport
The Southwest flight #WN2750 landed and taxied to wait for its gate to open up.
The Cargolux Boeing 747-8F (reg. LX-VCE) was taxiing to the runway for departure when the right-hand wingtip struck the left-hand winglet of the Boeing 737-700 (reg. N218WN)
Both flights were cancelled.
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Woman films male passenger touching her breast from seat behind on Spirit Airlines’ flight
A woman has caught a fellow plane passenger allegedly groping her from behind shortly after boarding.
The female passenger was travelling to California with her family on Spirit Airlines on Thursday (June 17) when the incident happened.
In a series of videos, she explained that they were split into different rows and she ended up swapping the aisle seat with a woman and got to sit by the window.
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Commercial

Boeing completes successful 737-10 first flight
Boeing’s 737-10, the largest airplane in the 737 MAX family, today (June 18, 2021) completed a successful first flight. The airplane took off from Renton Field in Renton, Washington, at 10:07 a.m. and landed at 12:38 p.m. at Boeing Field in Seattle.
“The airplane performed beautifully,” said 737 Chief Pilot Capt. Jennifer Henderson. “The profile we flew allowed us to test the airplane’s systems, flight controls and handling qualities, all of which checked out exactly as we expected.”
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Will the Airlander 10 kick-start an airship renaissance?
The idea of using airships in the 21st century is rather counterintuitive. The lumbering beasts seem excruciatingly slow, large and unwieldy – a polar opposite of sleek, fast jets. And some would argue that they still have an aura of disaster, a legacy from a series of crashes in the early 20th century.
So, it would require a lot of effort to pitch them to the public as something modern and desirable. Yet many enthusiasts have tried to do exactly that. In recent years, scores of companies have spent time and money developing a new generation of airships, racing to build blimps that could be used for everything from joyrides and cargo transportation to surveillance.
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Airlines

Air France adds its 10th Airbus A350-900, trials IATA Travel Pass
Air France on June 18 took delivery of its 10th Airbus A350-900. The aircraft, registration F-HTYK, rolled off the Airbus assembly line in Toulouse and took off for Paris-Charles de Gaulle, where it will operate on the airline’s long-haul routes.
The front of the fuselage bears the name ‘Aubusson’, named after the town in the Creuse region of France, whose tapestries are famous throughout the world. Since 2019 and the delivery of the first Airbus A350, Air France has resumed the legendary tradition of naming its aircraft after French cities. Aubusson is the 46th city to be honored in this way.
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Skyalps commences scheduled operations, operated by LuxWing
Skyalps (skyalps.com) (Sky Alps Tour Operator Srl) is a new Italian virtual airline based in Bolzano (BZO), the entry point for the Italian Alps.
South Tyrolian entrepreneur Josef Gostner originally planned to launch Skyalps in May 2020 but it has been delayed due to COVD-19 and restrictive borders.
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Emirates ramps up operations over summer to serve strong demand
Emirates is ramping up its operations and expanding services across its network to meet strong leisure travel demand over the summer, as entry restrictions ease for travelers. The airline has been gradually and safely rebuilding its route network and advancing its strategy to optimize its presence in key markets to serve leisure and growing business travel demand, as well as segments of travelers visiting friends and relatives. Today, Emirates serves 115 global passenger destinations, and by the end of July, it will have recovered close to 90% of its pre-pandemic network, operating 880 weekly services across 124 cities.
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Southwest celebrates 50 Years with a new “Freedom One” logo jet on N500WR
Southwest Airlines today celebrated the 50th Anniversary of its first flight by thanking Employees by offering a gift of 50,000 Southwest Rapid Rewards® points. The Nation’s largest domestic carrier also unveiled Freedom One, a Boeing 737-800 (Boeing 737-8H4 N500WR, msn 36898) emblazoned with a stylized flag of the United States of America.
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Eurowings Discover is born, getting ready to start operations
Eurowings Discover is the new leisure carrier of the Lufthansa Group. The first Airbus A330-200 now has titles in the basic Eurowings livery (above).
Details for the new division :
EW Discover GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Deutsche Lufthansa AG with headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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JetBlue launches flights to Los Cabos
JetBlue Airways today announced it has officially launched service at San José del Cabo’s Los Cabos International Airport (SJD). The first roundtrip flights between the popular Mexican destination and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) landed last night, and the first flight roundtrip flights between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Los Cabos landed back in the northeast this morning. JetBlue’s Los Cabos service from the East and West Coasts operates daily.
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Brussels Airlines reports a strong booking increase
Brussels Airlines sees a strong increase in the number of incoming bookings. Ever since the lifting of the travel ban for Belgians on 19 April, the airline has noticed a positive trend. However, the past few weeks the increase in bookings grows even stronger. Thanks to the vaccination programs that are running at full speed, the implementation of the digital green certificate and the evolving of the travel restrictions, the airline has recorded weekly increases of 30% to 50%, each time compared to the previous week. Holiday destinations in the south of Europe are performing particularly well at the moment.
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Air New Zealand to assign $700 worth shares to each employee
Air New Zealand plans to assign up to $700 (NZ$1,000) worth of its shares to the loyal permanent employees of the company as a sign of recognition for their work during the severe pandemic conditions in 2020.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the flag carrier, Greg Foran, confirmed to local media that each of the permanent staff members will hold a part of the airline’s shares worth $700 (NZ$1,000). According to Foran, such a decision was made to emphasize the work of the employees during the challenging year for the company.
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Airports

Tokyo Narita deploys new customer feedback technology
Customer feedback provider, HappyOrNot, has installed its smiley push button machines at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport ahead of the city hosting the Summer Olympics.
Using HappyOrNot’s Smiley Terminal push-button type terminals, Narita International Airport (NRT) will collect substantial amounts of customer feedback, enabling it to monitor their passenger’s security experience at 23 checkpoints across the airport.
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Military

Defect delay Boeing T-7A trainer serial production by a year
Flying instability was discovered while testing the upcoming T-7A Red Hawk advanced trainers, leading the United States Air Force to delay the full-rate production decision from 2022 to 2023.
On June 16, 2021, USAF officials said that a wing rock issue at high angles of attack was identified during flight tests. Coupled with a lack of spare parts from suppliers due to the COVID-19, the military decided to postpone their decision regarding full-rate production.
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New cost overruns to hit Boeing KC-46 due to more flaws
Boeing will have to fix two more Category I deficiencies in the US Air Force’s new KC-46 aerial tanker, increasing its price.
The issues, both of which are going to be addressed at Boeing’s expense, involve receptacle drain line tubes and Flight Management System software.
The problems were discovered in March 2021 in what the United State Air Force called “isolated incidents” and did not result in any emergencies.
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Aviation Quote

At sea let the British their neighbors defy—The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.

- Philip Freneau, —The Progress of Ballons,— 1784.


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