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European Airlines Continue to Face a Gloomy Year
The Association of European Airlines (AEA) has announced that its members will record a loss of €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) in 2012. Many of Europe’s airlines saw their net profitability wiped out in...
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Dana Air MD83 Aircraft Crashed in Lagos, Killing All 153 on Board
A Boeing MD-83 owned by Dana Air, a low budget commercial airliner, crashed soon after taking off near Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on 3 June 2012. The aircraft was flying...
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BFU Investigates Air Berlin's Extreme Fatigue Distress Call
German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Investigation, known as Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung (BFU) in German, has announced that it is investigating a distress call made by Air Berlin...
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British Airways A380 Deliveries Postponed to Q3 2012
British Airways, the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom is in negotiations with Airbus regarding the delivery of its first batch of A380s. British Airways placed an order for 12 Airbus A380s...
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United Airlines Commemorates Rollout of its First Boeing 787-8
On 2 August 2012, United Airlines celebrated the rollout of its first Boeing 787-8 at Boeing’s Everett, Washington plant. The airline is the US launch customer for the type and will take delivery of...
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Jets Fly In spite of Ground Collision
A Ryanair 737 recently took off on a scheduled flight despite passengers reporting the aircraft had struck another aircraft on the ground. Many passengers on the Ryanair flight from Barcelona to Ibiza...
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Silk Air to Purchase 68 Boeing Aircraft
Silk Air, a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase 68 Boeing aircraft valued at about $5 billion at current prices. The...
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Boeing Pitching Double Stretched 787 to Airlines
A bigger and improved Boeing 787 Dreamliner could be gracing the skies within the next 5 years. Following a provisional approval from its board of directors in October 2012, Boeing has announced that...
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Singapore Airlines Terminates Nonstop USA Flights, Orders New Aircraft
Singapore Airlines has announced that it will stop its long haul nonstop flights to Newark and Los Angeles in late 2013. This announcement comes after Airbus agreed to purchase back Singapore’s five...
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Silk Air Places a Large Order of 54 737s Worth Nearly $5 b
SilkAir (Singapore) Private Limited, Singapore Airlines’ regional arm, has placed an order for 54 Boeing 737s – 23 Next-Generation 737-800s and 31 737 MAX 8s. The order is worth $4.9 billion at list...
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Lenders Approve Turnaround Plan for Scandinavian SAS
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has obtained an approval for securing financing from its lenders and bankers to roll over its huge debt. SAS, the largest airline in Scandinavia, is the flag carrier of...
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Staff and Fleet Cuts at Iberia to Stop Financial Decline
The entire airline industry has been in a crisis state over the past four years, and the future continues to look uncertain. International Airlines Group (IAG), the British-Spanish airline holding...
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Quest to Find 10 of the World's Safest Airlines
Recent news about major problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner has made me very concerned about the safety of the world’s stock of commercial aircraft. I read on the BBC website a summary of the...
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Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Disappears from Skies
It has been reported by Malaysia Airlines that they have lost contact with their flight MH370. The contact was lost while the aircraft was flying through airspace controlled by Vietnam. At 02:40 local...
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Search For Missing Malaysian Plane Is Setting Up to Be History's Most Expensive
The race is still on to find the missing Malaysian plane that disappeared on March 8, 2014. While the hope to find survivors is gone, there is still hope to find the plane just to know what happened in...
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Do You Recognize This Pioneer Who Dominated Early 20th Century Aviation?
Born in 1882 to a clergy family in Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, this aviation pioneer formed a long-standing aircraft manufacturing company that designed and produced legendary military and...
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Germanwings Alps Plane Crash: Possible Causes
Unless you have totally managed to avoid the media for the last two days, you will no doubt have witnessed the atrocious scenes that have taken place nearby Nice, towards the French Alps. An Airbus...
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Do You Recognize This Aviation Pioneer?
This British aviation pioneer was born near Manchester, England, in 1877, the son of a doctor. After quitting school at age 14, he travelled to western Canada for a year. Upon returning to England, he...
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Germany's Hypersonic SpaceLiner Starts Taking Shape
You have no doubt heard of stories of this in the past; the space cruiser that could take a group of people from anywhere in Europe to Australia in an hour and a half. This was concept laughed down and...
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JSTARS Called To Improve Scheduling Speed as the E-8D Marches On
Shots were fired recently as Northrop Grumman says that it should not be taking sixteen years for the US Air Force to re-capitalize the Boeing 707 E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System. In...
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