NewsCyprus Airways Threatened With BankruptcyAccording to Cyprian newspaper Fileleftheros, Cyprus Airways is about to fold. Because of the cutting of government funds the Cyprian airline company is facing bankruptcy, Fileleftheros reports.
LinkBoeing May Do 787 Certification Flight On FridayBoeing may carry out a certification test flight of its grounded 787 Dreamliner with a revamped battery system on Friday, a key step toward returning the aircraft to flight, a US government official said on Thursday.
LinkBoeing dispatches 787 battery fix teams to Japan Boeing has dispatched maintenance teams to Japan, where they are standing by to retrofit a new battery containment system on the grounded 787 aircraft of All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airlines (JAL).
LinkAirbus Regains Top Spot From Boeing In Q1Airbus recaptured the aircraft industry's top spot in the first quarter as Boeing fell behind on orders and grappled with the grounding of its newest jet, the 787 Dreamliner, data from both companies showed.
LinkBritish Airways Lifts IAG's March TrafficInternational Airlines Group reported a 0.1 percent rise in March traffic, after a strong performance from British Airways made up for weakness at Iberia following a series of strikes.
LinkMillion Air Exits at Arkansas Airport Following a dispute with Fayetteville, Ark. airport authority, Million Air quit operating the FBO at Fayetteville Executive/Drake Field Airport last month after eight years at the airport. “We’ve had to take a hard look at all of our locations and maybe rethink some of the markets that we’re in,” Million Air president and CEO Roger Woolsey told AIN, referring to the industry downturn of the past several years. “Fayetteville unfortunately happens to be one of them.”
LinkAegean Airlines: caught between the devil and the deep blue seaAegean Airlines seems to be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, challenged both by a very weak domestic market and by an increasingly competitive international market where it has neither cost leadership nor a global network. If approved by the EU this year, will its planned acquisition of Olympic Air provide a route to safety?
LinkEmirates increases capacity to JapanEmirates SkyCargo is to increase its cargo offering to Japan, when the UAE-based airline launches a daily non-stop B777-200 passenger flight between Dubai and Haneda Airport, Tokyo, from June 3.
LinkExpect A Jet Unveil From Pilatus This May The existence of a Pilatus jet project has been discussed in the European press since at least 2011 and Pilatus has confirmed its plans to show a mockup of its twinjet design, the PC-24, at EBACE, Geneva, this May. Earlier reports had forecast that deliveries of the new jet would reach customers by 2015 for an asking price near twice that of the company's best-selling model, the PC-12 turboprop.
LinkAtlas Air takes delivery of its eighth Boeing 747-800F freighterAtlas Air (New York) has taken delivery of its eighth Boeing 747-8F Freighter.
LinkCanJet Airlines considers long-range scheduled operationsCanJet Airlines (2nd) (Halifax), a division of IMP Group Limited, is a full-service charter airline. The airline is now considering scheduled operations again.
LinkAir Transat to again operate Boeing 737s, wide-body fleet to be reducedTransat A.T. Inc. will add Boeing 737 narrow-body jets to Air Transat’s fleet, which currently comprises Airbus A310 and A330 wide-body aircraft, beginning in 2014. In so doing, the company will internalize its medium-haul operations outbound from Canada to sun destinations in Mexico, the Caribbean and Florida, for which it has relied on a third-party partner since 2003.
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