Aerotime

MAY 23, 2024

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Mike Whitaker, has said that Boeing faces a “long road” ahead as a key safety deadline approaches. The FAA Administrator spoke to ABC News on May 22, 2024, where he was quizzed about safety at Boeing following the Alaska Airlines 737-9 door plug blowout on January 5, 2024.

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Aerotime

JUNE 10, 2024

An Austrian Airlines Airbus A320-200 aircraft sustained severe damage during a hailstorm on its approach to Vienna Airport (VIE). Austrian Airlines A320 severely damaged by a hailstorm while on approach to Vienna Airport in Austria. The cockpit windshield also showed extensive damage, with multiple impacts throughout.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Qantas will then fly passengers to their nearest home domestic airport that the airline operates to at no cost. RELATED Qantas offers free rescue flights for Australian nationals fleeing Lebanon The post First of two Qantas 787 Lebanon repatriation flights approaches Cyprus appeared first on AeroTime.

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Aerotime

JULY 25, 2024

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Eritrea has informed Ethiopian Airlines that flights to the East African nation will be suspended from September 30, 2024. A document shared on social media purporting to be written by the Eritrean CAA, said that Ethiopian Airlines had conducted “persistent malicious trading practices”.

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Aerotime

JULY 11, 2024

Vietnam’s national carrier Vietnam Airlines has reportedly seen a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes in the past 12 months and is looking positively to the future, says one of the airline’s main institutional investors. In 2023, Vietnam Airlines recorded total consolidated revenues of VND 93,265 billion ($3.7

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Aerotime

MAY 30, 2024

Three black men have filed a federal lawsuit against American Airlines for racial discrimination. The men allege the airline forced them and other black male passengers to disembark a plane after a complaint about body odor. Five other passengers were approached and were also removed from the flight.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A new agreement between electric vehicle takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer Archer Aviation and a Japan Airlines startup includes plans for the purchase of up to 100 Midnight aircraft. Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hokkaido, Setouchi and Okinawa are all seen as places where eVTOL route networks could potentially be located.

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Aerotime

JUNE 5, 2024

Airbus is holding discussions with assorted Chinese airlines regarding the potential sale of more than 100 A330neo widebody aircraft, according to Bloomberg. With China once again halting imports from Boeing, Airbus may be seizing its opportunity to present more attractive terms to the Chinese airlines to purchase A330neos.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The milestone comes as the airline prepares to retire its final Boeing 717 short-haul jet after well over 20 years of service. The first A220-300 flight departed its Melbourne (MEL) base at 09:41 local time for the relatively short 50-minute flight to Launceston Airport (LST) as QF1541, where it touched down at 10:37.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 14, 2025

Brussels Airlines has launched a new publicity campaign to highlight to customers the keystones of its Belgian DNA. According to a statement issued by Brussels Airlines , through the campaign, the airline wants to let passengers know that the company speaks their language, both literally and figuratively.

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Cranky Flier

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The airline delayed filing of its third quarter earnings report , but it did say that operating margin will be about 12 points worse than Q3 2023. There are plenty of airlines that could benefit from buying Spirit, or at least parts of it. JetBlue Part Two JetBlue obviously wanted Spirit bad under the airline’s previous regime.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Could the same thing happen to airline pricing? To the credit of the airline industry, it has always believed in the science of revenue optimization, adopting dynamic pricing quite early on. This is an approach that enables airlines to update their fares several times per day. he explained.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

With 28 years of experience at Ryanair, and 18 of those as the carrier’s Head of Training, Airline Pilot Club (APC) CEO Andy O’Shea knows a thing or two about what it takes to become a become an exceptional pilot – and no, it’s not as simple as knowing how to fly a plane.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

An instructor with IATA on Airline Distribution Strategy and with Aeroclass on Airline Retailing, Ann is a frequent speaker and panelist at industry events. The main reason to engage in airline retailing is to create a better customer experience. Why doesn’t the airline know that we are travelling together?

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Aerotime

JULY 23, 2024

Boom Supersonic announced major milestones across its Overture airliner and Symphony engine programs at the Farnborough International Airshow on July 23, 2024. The US company unveiled an all-new flight deck for supersonic airliner Overture, designed around pilots and with safety at the forefront.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Following the ceasefire agreed between Israel and the Hezbollah militant organization in Lebanon in late November 2024, airlines are cautiously resuming international flights to the country’s primary air gateway at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY). In the coming days, other airlines will be resuming services to Beirut.

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Aerotime

JUNE 4, 2024

The Airline Pilot Club (APC), a leader in aviation training and pilot development, has announced the launch of its groundbreaking Evidence-Based Training (EBT) and Performance Evidence-Based Training (PEBT) Optimization Suite. – Ability to use innovative training tools (xR, Online Courses, etc.):

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Much has been written about how powerful and transformative artificial intelligence (AI) can be in the domain of airline pricing or optimizing the allocation of a given carrier’s seat inventory. Over the course of these years, airlines have got better at selling seats and ancillary services.

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Aerotime

JULY 19, 2024

A violent and destructive engine failure on the aircraft, one of United Airlines ’ McDonnell Douglas DC-10s, caused the loss of all standard flight controls through the fracture of all three hydraulic syst ems on the aircraft. While fatalities resulted, the majority of those onboard survived.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The first of these is the enormous size of the airliner market, with airlines expected to receive some 40,000 aircraft over the next couple of decades and the major manufacturers struggling with production bottlenecks. However, he highlighted two factors that he feels may present an enticing opportunity.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 14, 2025

AirlineRatings, an airline safety and review site, has released its ranking for the worlds safest airlines to fly in 2025. To assess which airlines are the safest, AirlineRatings uses data on everything from recent incidents to audits and certifications from industry bodies. Its average fleet age is 10.4

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One Mile at a Time

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Haiti has been dealing with quite a bit of unrest in recent years, which has been challenging for airline operations, in terms of balancing the desire to serve markets with demand, while also factoring in safety. For the most part, US airlines have resumed service to Haiti as of earlier this year, though with new safety protocols.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 10, 2025

Co-founder and Principal of Air52 Aviation Consultants, Koen Karsbergen brings over two decades of experience in airline management and strategy to his columns. Picture yourself as an airline CEO facing a crucial decision: your airline is planning to expand operations across Asia.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

These providers have the unique ability to modify and customize aircraft to meet the specific needs of any airline, often achieving what might initially seem impossible. These adaptations can be influenced by cultural expectations, market demands, or the unique business model of the airline. “In

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Aerotime

JULY 18, 2024

In little more than six years and under Korfiatis’ watch, the Saudi airline has grown from zero to nearly 10 million passengers per year and a fleet of 35 aircraft, with plans to grow this number to 110 in the near future. So, in the late 1990s I joined an airline in Australia called Ansett and I’ve been in aviation ever since.”

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Aerotime

JUNE 14, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming part and parcel of many business processes and airlines are no exception. As such, the Canadian and Mexican low-cost carriers have joined other users of Fetcherr’s AI-driven pricing tool such as Virgin Atlantic, Azul Airlines and Royal Air Maroc. appeared first on AeroTime.

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Aerotime

JUNE 25, 2024

Somewhere between flying business class on a commercial airline and taking a private jet, a new value proposition combining elements of both worlds is quietly emerging in the US travel market. A lawyer by background, Klein joined Aero as general counsel in 2021, and has been at the helm of the startup airline since September 2023.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A worker at Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD) has been critically injured after the aircraft tug that he was driving was struck by the wing of an aircraft that had just landed and was approaching its assigned gate, causing the tug to overturn. The incident occurred at around 19:35 local time on Saturday, February 1.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Avia Solutions Group holds 11 Air Operator Certificates (AOCs) in countries all over the world and boasts a portfolio that includes names such as Avion Express, SmartLynx Airlines, KlasJet, AirExplore, BBN, Ascend Airways and Skytrans, among others.

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Simple Flying

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A United Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Denver, CO, to Lihue, HI, faced a flap issue on final approach, resulting in a go-around. The issue was fixed on the subsequent approach, and the aircraft landed without incident.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 28, 2025

It would open up a range of possible new routes for passengers while incentivising airlines to modernise their fleet from older to newer generation aircraft such as the Airbus A320neo, which are more fuel efficient, more environmentally friendly and quieter, said a spokesperson for the airport on January 27, 2024.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

SalamAir predicts that by adding the additional Airbus A320 aircraft the airline can meet its growth targets for the coming five-year period. “Our return to our Low-Fare approach has been highly successful, with full aircraft and more demand than we can meet,” said Adrian Hamilton-Manns, SalamAirs CEO.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 17, 2025

This transformation is fundamentally changing how airlines oversee their fleets, improve operational efficiency, and elevate the overall passenger experience. The data collected is then analysed using sophisticated algorithms and artificial intelligence to provide actionable insights for pilots, maintenance crews and airline management.

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Aerotime

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In December 2023, Ryanair carried 12.54 million passengers, up from 11.52 million passengers in the same month in 2022.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, has announced its intention to withdraw a host of services from 10 regional airports across France should the French government carry out its plan to increase passenger taxes from those airports. The move would create 60 new jobs for the country’s economy, the carrier added.

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One Mile at a Time

DECEMBER 26, 2024

In July 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) stepped up oversight of Southwest Airlines , after the airline hada series of close calls, mostly involving pilot error. Southwest is one of two major US airlines to be under increased scrutiny from the FAA in recent times.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The government of South Korea has ordered the inspection of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by domestic airliners after 179 passengers died when a Jeju Air aircraft crashed during an emergency landing at Muan International Airport (MWX) on December 29, 2024. The Boeing 737-800 is widely operated by domestic low-cost carriers.

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