Aerotime

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Our decision to invest in six Airbus A320 aircraft reflects our forward-thinking approach to fleet management and transformation. He added: This acquisition also highlights our commitment to enhancing passenger experience, improving operational efficiency, and expanding our reach as we transform into a more sustainable and innovative airline.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Turkish Airlines has touched down at Sydney Airport (SYD) after completing its longest ever flight and officially launching the new service from Istanbul to Australia’s capital. The Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300ER landed on November 29, 2024, shortly before 18:20, with the carrier’s CEO Bilal Ekşi on board the inaugural flight.

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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

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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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

After months of deliberation, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has finally given its approval to the proposed merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. The merger between the two airlines was first proposed in December 2023 and is valued at $1.9

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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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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

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

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

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 19, 2024

Aeroates are a Malta-based HR and compliance solutions provider, who are redefining the workforce model of the aviation industry by using an innovative approach: providing temporary staff, fully outsourcing HR services, and working specifically devoted to the aviation industry. But Aeroates doesnt just help with staffing.

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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 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

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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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

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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Simple Flying

JUNE 14, 2024

On April 11th, 2024, Southwest Airlines Flight 2786 was inbound on an approach to its destination, Lihue Airport (LIH), when it experienced a severe drop in altitude, descending hundreds of feet in mere seconds before recovering just 400 ft above the oceans surface.

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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

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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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

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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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

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

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

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

JANUARY 20, 2025

Coming less than a week after the carrier relaunched international air services to Europe, the safety spotlight has quickly fallen once again in the direction of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Approaching Lahore Airport from the south, the flight was cleared to land on runway 36R at the airport.

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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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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

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

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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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

One doesn't really have to wonder too much how American Airlines (AA) was named. After all, it is named after the nation with the highest number of airports in the world. The colors used in the logo of the AA are the ones in the American flag. The same could be said of British Airways (BA).

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One Mile at a Time

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this post I figured I’d share my current approach. Along those lines, a reader asked me whether I’m wearing masks nowadays when flying. I also generally don’t wear a mask while inflight if I’m in a premium cabin, with a good amount of personal space.

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