Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 ‘Baby Boom’ demonstrator aircraft has recorded its fastest ever speed during its fourth test flight signaling further progression towards its quest to reach Mach 1. Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 is paving the way for the developer’s full-size Overture aircraft by gathering invaluable data and testing state-of-the-art technologies. According to Boom Supersonic , XB-1 reached a new top speed of Mach 0.617, more than halfway to breaking the sound barrier.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As part of its JetForward strategy, JetBlue is looking to optimize its network and axe dozens of routes to focus more on specific regions in the country. The airline has laid out a plan that it hopes will lead it to profitability and turn things around in a couple of years.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Chinese private space firm Deep Blue Space conducted a test of its Nebula-1 recoverable rocket at its spaceport, located in the desert of Inner Mongolia. Although the rocket successfully lifted off the ground and then executed the recovery maneuver correctly, it ended up crashing right when it was in the final stages of the landing process, after 179 seconds in the air.

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Lift 284

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Global Airlines and Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), a joint venture between Airbus and ST Engineering, have signed a maintenance agreement for the carriers Airbus A380 fleet, marking a return to the A380 maintenance market for EFW.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Japan Airlines has started to retire its Boeing 77-300ER fleet from service, with the airline bidding farewell to the first of these aircraft on September 19, 2024. Video footage posted on social media shows ground staff at Haneda Airport (HND) lining the runway to pay homage to the aircraft as it heads into storage. The aircraft in question was delivered to Japan Airlines in 2005, the fourth of this type to enter service with the Japanese flag carrier, and used to operate with registration JA73

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

On Friday, September 20th, Tecnam announced two orders for aircraft that totaled 65 aircraft. Buiqui Aerospace, a flight school based in Miami , Florida, purchased a total of fifty Tecnam aircraft to be added to its fleet of trainer aircraft. Deliveries of these aircraft will begin this week and will continue through the second quarter of next year.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The moment is tantalizingly close when the business aviation industry is set to come together for the 2024 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Las Vegas, United States. This is an industry-leading event that will showcase the most thrilling innovators, leading experts, and visionary thinkers, transforming the possibilities in aviation and redefining on-demand air mobility.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A DHL Air Boeing 767-300ER freighter was forced to return to Amsterdam not once but twice after suffering flap retraction issues after take-off from the Dutch airport. The incidents, which occurred on September 18, 2024, are now the subject of an investigation as to how the same issue caused the flight to return twice on the same day. On the day in question, DHL Air (Austria) Boeing 767-300ER freighter was operating a routine cargo flight from Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport to London-Luton Airport a

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Dear readers, I must confess, this is a profoundly depressing story for me to write. Though the United States of America ultimately did win the Cold War by virtue of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, my country and her allies suffered many a humiliating defeat and setback along the way, from the Vietnam War, to the Soviets beating America into unmanned (Sputnik) and manned space flight (Yuri Gagarin), to the Soviet shootdown of U-2 Dragon spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers on May 1, 196

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Pilot 124

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has announced it will add a fourth daily flight to its services between Dubai and Johannesburg in South Africa. The announcement swiftly follows the airline’s recent announcement of a second daily Airbus A380-operated flight between the two cities which commenced operations on September 1, 2024. The fourth daily service will begin on March 1, 2025, and will be operated by the airline’s three-class Boeing 777-300ER, offering an additional 708 s

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

After a recent incident of an iPad catching fire onboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight, which prompted an emergency landing in Portland, reports from passengers onboard the eventful flight have now emerged, saying that the crew members were not entirely prepared for such an eventuality.

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Airlines Airline 122

Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It has been revealed that British Airways has canceled its entire series of flights due to operate from Southampton Airport (SOU) on the south coast of England for the summer of 2025. The airline has said that it is “suspending 2025 operations” from the airport just as summer 2024 comes to an end and regular travelers from the airport look to rebook for next year.

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Runway Cargo Airlines Airline 284

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sustainability in aviation has moved well beyond using sustainable aviation fuel or hydrogen power to cut CO2 emissions. Perhaps it was the sight of all those parked aircraft in boneyards, but today, there is growing pressure on end-of-life recycling, just as Korean Air announced today.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Lebanese flag carrier Middle East Airlines – Air Liban has dismissed rumors that one if its Airbus aircraft disappeared from radar during a flight. Middle East Airlines issued a statement on September 22, 2024, categorically denying the passenger jet was involved in an incident as claims about the aircraft’s fate began to swell on social media. Among some of the more outlandish claims were reports that an explosion in the air had been heard by residents over Cyprus.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The 193rd Special Operations Wing has bid farewell to the last Lockheed Martin EC-130J Commando Solo III aircraft as they took their final flight from Pennsylvania. The EC-130J Commando Solo is a modified Super Hercules used to conduct psychological operations (PSYOP) and is not to be confused with the related EC-130H Compass Call. The venerable EC-130H Compass Call is a vital EW asset and is also being gradually withdrawn from the United States Air Force.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Air New Zealand has been forced to delay the introduction of its all-new business class offering following supply chain delays that are impacting the delivery of key components. The Auckland-based carrier had hoped to introduce the new product on its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet in September 2024, but the roll-out is being pushed back until “early in the new year,” according to the carrier.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines is already making changes following the completion of its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines last week. On Monday, the carrier announced that it has established new leadership and will expand its cargo division.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Frontier Airlines flight attendants, which are represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), have voted 99.6% in favor of going on strike in a ballot in which 92.7% of its members participated. The dispute between Frontier’s flight attendants and the airline’s management is related to operational changes that are being implemented in order to cut costs.

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Airlines Airline 299

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finalized its airworthiness directive (AD) addressing Boeing 737 Next Generation (NG) display electronic unit (DEU) software errors, resulting in blanking display units (DU) when approaching a certain runway.

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Aerotime

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

As airlines across the globe are confronting the climate crisis, aircraft are quickly changing to address the need for environmental consciousness. In the pursuit of sustainability, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) set the goal to transition the aviation industry to carbon neutrality by 2050, amounting to the reduction of nearly 1 gigatons of CO2.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

There are various methods of analyzing an airlines economic impact, such as their annual revenue or number of passengers carried, but employment figures are another vital consideration. For the carriers in our list of the top carriers by workforce size, employment numbers help tell the story of how each airline has evolved.

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Airlines Airline 119

World Airline News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Twenty four Boeing 787-8 and -9 Dreamliners of LATAM Airlines Group will see their current internal layout fully replaced. These upgrades are being performed in Santiago, Chile and São Carlos, Brazil, taking between two and four months per aircraft depending on the amount of work. Photo: LATAM Group As regards the upgraded interiors, the Premium Business class will receive the new R7 seats from Recaro Aircraft Seating, which are the first in any South American airline that have doors for more p

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Airlines Airline 111

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Alaska Airlines had temporarily requested a ground stop for its operations out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA), resulting in delays for departing flights out of its main hub.

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Airlines Airline 92

One Mile at a Time

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It’s an exciting time at Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). The airline has just emerged from bankruptcy protection , and now has an investment from Air France-KLM, and has also left Star Alliance and joined SkyTeam. Coinciding with this, the airline is making a bunch of changes, ranging from launching flights to Seattle , to introducing business class on flights within Europe , to increasingly focusing on Copenhagen as a global hub.

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Airlines Airline 114

Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

British Airways is pulling its flights from Southampton next summer. According to Cirium data, the airline was set to offer one weekly flight to a few destinations throughout Europe.

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Aviation News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson completed a six-month research mission aboard the International Space Station on Monday, returning to Earth with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The largest international airport serving the capital city of Queensland, Australia, Brisbane Airport (BNE) has become a global transportation hub, and saw over 20 million passengers pass through its doors last year alone. The airport, besides being a key gateway for tourist travel to the Great Barrier Reef region on the country's northeastern shores, has been recognized extensively for its on-time performance, with over 85% of flights arriving and departing according to schedule.

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Airline Geeks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Boeing has made what the company is calling its “best and final offer” for a renewed contract to 33,000 striking machinists and aerospace workers on Monday.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

It has been a busy month for Alaska Airlines. Having completed its acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines and outlined how the two brands will operate, the carrier is now looking to boost its frequent flyer program with a generous new promotion.

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Airlines Airline 116

Ask the Pilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

September 23, 2024 I FOUND THIS LIST, over at The Atlantic, published back in 2015: What Was the Most Significant Airplane Flight in History? A roll call of aviation luminaries, myself not included, was invited to weigh in. The Enola Gay , bound for Hiroshima, that’s a heavy one. And from my fellow blogger Christine Negroni : “In 1914, Abram Pheil became the very first passenger on the very first passenger flight, a 23-minute trip from St.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Over the years, airline seats have gone from being a commodity to being a luxury item. ABC News has said that some airlines are now charging extra for window and aisle seats, meaning passengers who desire a view may need to pay more for the privilege.

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Airlines Airline 116

Airline Geeks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Denver Air Connection, or DAC for short, has been modestly growing over the past couple of years, now having 19 destinations and 18 routes.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

JetBlue has been expanding its network using the versatile and efficient Airbus A220. Known for its fuel efficiency, comfort, and range, the A220 enables the airline to effectively serve both short and long-haul destinations.

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Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

A Big Surprise from a FAA Inspector Air Facts Journal The FAA employs Air Carrier Operations Safety Inspectors to oversea airline operations. Their duties may include examining airmen for initial certification and continuing competence. They also evaluate airmen training programs and the operational aspect of programs of air carriers to ensure safe operation.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Few aircraft types elicit as much negative response from passengers as regional jets , although I like them despite being 6'. Generally, negativity is especially concerned with all-economy 50-seat cramped equipment. However, larger aircraft, including the CRJ900 , are not immune, not least because of the typical inability to stand up fully.

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Jet 116

Fly Areo Guard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

AeroGuard Flight Training Center is excited to welcome its inaugural class of Cadets from Air India to its Phoenix, Arizona, USA campus. This first class of 19 students marks a significant partnership between AeroGuard and Air India, committed to providing high-quality, professional pilots for India’s flag carrier. AeroGuard announced its selection by Air India to be a flight training provider for the airline earlier this year in February.

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Simple Flying

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Chief Customer Officer and Executive Vice President of United Airlines Holdings Linda Jojo announced on September 16 that she intends to depart the holding company of United Airlines effective January 2, 2025 , after over a decade of service. Jojo won't leave empty-handed, receiving several benefits connected to her retirement, subject to terms and conditions.

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Airlines Airline 116