'Milestone Flight Was Nominal In All Respects' 321 Precision Conversions has completed the first post-conversion flight of the firm’s A321-200PCF freighter. 321 Precision Conversions President Gary Warner confirmed the event, stating “This milestone flight was nominal in all respects, with...
Controller-Pilot Symposium Will Have A Completely Different Format Due To The Pandemic GATCO and the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) are hosting the third edition of the Controller-Pilot Symposium in November 2020, which will have a completely different format given...
Canadian low-cost carrier Flair Airlines has named former Wizz Air deputy chief executive Stephen Jones to lead the company. He will replace Flair’s outgoing president and chief executive Jim Scott, who will remain a shareholder of the airline. Source: Flair...
Germany’s Lufthansa is to shift a batch of Airbus A350-900s to Frankfurt, where they will take over routes operated by Boeing 747-8s. Lufthansa has so far focused A350 deployment exclusively on its Munich hub. The airline has 43 of the...
Finnair has enough cash to survive until late 2021 with little or no flying, having introduced a raft of financial measures to ensure it can survive the coronavirus crisis Finnair has enough cash to survive until late 2021 with little or...
The organiser of Singapore’s biennial Rotorcraft Asia and Unmanned Systems Asia (RCA-UMSA) event have postponed the show three months to 27-29 July 2021. The show, co-located at Changi Exhibition Centre with the Imdex naval show, had originally been planned for...
Israeli flag-carrier El Al’s shareholders are to meet in November to approve a new board of directors, including Jason Greenblatt, the former chief lawyer to US president Donald Trump. Greenblatt is one of six directors proposed for the board following...
China Southern Airlines has announced pricing of an upcoming convertible bond issue that is set to raise CNY16 billion ($2.4 billion) for the carrier. The bonds, convertible to mainland China-listed A-shares, will bear 0.2% interest in the first year, 0.4% in the...
The organisers of the biennial Airshow China event in Zhuhai have officially confirmed the show’s cancellation, a month after an initial announcement was hastily retracted. A notice on the show’s website gave no indication as to when the next show...
China Eastern Airlines’ parent company, China Eastern Group, has received a CNY31 billion ($4.6 billion) capital boost from four state-owned enterprises. The four companies involved in the capital increase are China Life Investment Holdings, which will inject CNY11 billion; Shanghai...