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ATR To Cut Aircraft Production As Demand Falls
ATR has announced today that it is looking to reduce its aircraft output. The announcement comes amid the worldwide crisis that has significantly cut travel demand, in turn negating the immediate need for most new aircraft.
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Embraer Ships Five Airliners in Q1 amid Boeing ‘Carveout’
Embraer delivered just five airliners during this year’s first quarter, underscoring the company’s inability to generate significant revenue during its commercial aircraft division’s “carveout” from the rest of the company in preparation for its expected sale to Boeing.
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Embraer Bizjet Deliveries Edge Lower in First Quarter
Embraer Executive Jets (EEJ) saw its business jet deliveries slip from a year ago, according to its first-quarter 2020 delivery report issued today. Specifically, the Brazilian airframer reported deliveries of five light jets—all Phenom 300Es—and four large jets—one Praetor 500 and three Praetor 600s—for a total of nine aircraft.
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Embraer Puts Blame On Boeing For Large Drop In Aircraft Deliveries
Embraer has released its first-quarter orders and deliveries results for 2020. Through March 31st, the Brazilian manufacturer delivered only 14 aircraft. Five of these were commercial jets, while the other nine were business jets.
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Virgin Atlantic Reveals New Summer 2021 Timetable
Virgin Atlantic has revealed its revised timetable for summer 2021. The schedule will see the first summer with no operations out of London Gatwick since the airline announced it would close its base there.
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Qatar Airways’ Airbus A380 Fleet May Never Return To The Skies
The Qatar Airways chief executive Akbar al-Baker has gone into a little more depth today about the airline’s future plans. On the back of predictions of a long, slow recovery and a 25% shrink of its fleet yesterday, the executive revealed that it might not fly the A380 again.
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Despite Liquidation Air Italy Files For US Flight Permission
Despite entering liquidation earlier this year, Air Italy has applied to the United States Department of Transportation (DoT) for permission to continue to fly between Europe and the US. Air Italy entered voluntary liquidation in February of this year and has just five operating 737 aircraft.
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Finnair Takes Steps To Reduce COVID-19 Risks Whilst Flying
Today, Finnair updated its website to reflect recent changes made to its health and safety policies – particularly in regards to handling the risk and threat of coronavirus. This includes plexiglass guards put up between airport staff and passengers at check-in as well as the distribution of cleaning wipes onboard.
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Ryanair Looks To Scrap Lauda Airbus Fleet In Favour Of Boeing
Ryanair is looking to replace Lauda’s Airbus aircraft with equivalents from the Boeing 737 family. Ryanair has been a long-time major customer of Boeing’s 737 jets. However, subsidiary Lauda has, for the time being, remained operating Airbus A320 family aircraft.
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Brussles Airlines To Cut Workforce & Fleet
Brussels Airlines has today announced that it would need to reduce its workforce and fleet as a result of the current crisis. The airline’s entire scheduled operations have remained suspended since late March.
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Ryanair’s Return To Service Comes With Strings Attached
Ryanair has announced its return to service plans for July onwards. The Irish low-cost carrier intends to restore 90% of its network on the 1st of July with the reintroduction of some 1,000 daily flights.
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flydubai Won’t Resume Operations Until June At The Earliest
Dubai-based carrier flydubai has today announced that it will not be resuming scheduled passenger flights until June at the earliest, in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Passenger flights will continue to be suspended until June 4th, while some repatriation flights will still take place.
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Qatar Airways Offers 100,000 Free Tickets To Healthcare Workers
Qatar Airways is offering frontline medical professionals and one companion 100,000 free, round-trip tickets to anywhere to in the world. In a press release, the airline said the tickets are a token of gratitude to the medical workers who have saved lives during the coronavirus outbreak. The ticket giveaway opens today and will end on 18th May. Let’s find out more.
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Emirates Premium Economy Debut – What’s The Latest?
Emirates has always stood out from the long-haul airline pack by not installing a premium economy cabin on its aircraft. This was despite the airline having award-winning first and business cabins. So the Dubai based airline made quite a splash last year when it changed tack and announced it would be configuring a premium economy cabin across most of its fleet.
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Perth Airport Gives Qantas Notice Of Lease Termination
The feud between Qantas and Perth Airport has escalated a notch further. On Friday, the airport issued 30-day termination notices to the airline, advising it would not be renewing the carrier’s holdover leases. Qantas said these amount to eviction notices and warned that if they are not withdrawn, the airline could cease operations at Perth within two weeks.
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Nice Côte d’Azur airport implements health protection plan
Nice Côte d’Azur airport, in a drive to protect both passengers and staff during COVID-19, has implemented many health and safety measures, including a robot that emits ultra-violet light to eliminate viruses.
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Runway pavement works get underway at Auckland Airport
Auckland Airport has brought forward budgeted and planned runway pavement replacement work, with construction beginning on the $26 million project in two weeks.
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UK airports and airlines oppose introduction of 14-day quarantine
A group of UK airline and airport CEOs have written to the Prime Minister, expressing serious concern in regard to the proposed quarantine measure for UK inbound travellers that was recently announced.
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We have the enemy surrounded. We are dug in and have overwhelming numbers. But enemy airpower is mauling us badly. We will have to withdraw.
- a Japanese infantry commander, situation report to headquarters, Burma, WW II.
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ATR To Cut Aircraft Production As Demand Falls
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