Airline stocks take off as COVID-19 restrictions ease, more travelers fly

Shares of airlines took flight Tuesday, amid growing investor optimism over the easing of COVID-19 related lockdown restrictions and as government data showed a continued increase in air travelers. (www.marketwatch.com) עוד...

How We Made: Airplane!

We used to seek out movies that were mind-numbingly serious and dub them with our own voices. Late one night, we caught Zero Hour! – a 1957 film about a former world war two pilot landing a stricken passenger flight – and thought: “Why don’t we recreate this whole movie instead?” (www.theguardian.com) עוד...

ForeFlight Feature Focus: Internet Traffic via FlightAware

Stream live global aircraft traffic directly in ForeFlight with the Internet Traffic feature. In partnership with FlightAware, ForeFlight allows you to view airborne traffic around the globe, and ground traffic at thousands of airports worldwide, to help you gauge airport activity like active arrivals and runways, see how ATC vectors traffic around weather, or assist with planespotting on the ground. Internet Traffic is included in all ForeFlight subscription plans. (www.youtube.com) עוד...

Delta Boeing 777 Flight Forced To Divert As Pilot Gets Incapacitated

A Delta Boeing 777 made a rare appearance in Moncton, Canada, after the first officer became incapacitated midflight. (simpleflying.com) עוד...

E-Jet operators told to act to avert trim-switch misfitting

Operators of Embraer 170 and 190 regional jets are being instructed to modify control yokes to prevent horizontal stabiliser trim switches being inadvertently wrongly installed. (www.flightglobal.com) עוד...

TAP Air Portugal Has The World’s First Makeshift A330neo Freighter

TAP Portugal has become the first airline in the world to convert an A330-900 for cargo operations. (simpleflying.com) עוד...

Embraer delivers 14 first quarter 2020 planes

Considered the third largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world, Embraer reported its deliveries for the first quarter of 2020... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) עוד...

Delta Cancels A350 Purchase From LATAM, Continues Joint-Venture Despite LATAM’s Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing

Delta Air Lines DAL and LATAM have modified their partnership agreement as Latin America’s largest airline group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring. Delta will pay LATAM $62 million for cancelling their agreement for Delta to purchase four of LATAM’s already delivered Airbus A350 aircraft, LATAM said in a court filing. The four A350s were part of Delta and LATAM’s 2019 partnership agreement that also saw Delta takeover 10 of LATAM’s future A350 deliveries. The change involving the 10… (www.forbes.com) עוד...

FAA post flight restrictions around Cape Canaveral for historic manned space launch

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued multiple Notice to Airmen (NOTAMS) Temporary Flight Restrictions around Cape Canaveral, Fla., through Wednesday. (dcnewsroom.blogspot.com) עוד...

At Emirates, passenger planes are “converted” into Freighters

To further optimize operations and cargo-carrying capacity, Emirates SkyCargo began to transport cargo in the hand luggage compartments and seats of its Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft... (cmsherbert.blogspot.com) עוד...

Unusual Names Of Waypoints Used For Airplanes' Navigation

Aviation relies on so-called "waypoints" — geographic coordinates in the sky that help with navigation. And all the waypoints are named with five-letter designations, sometimes funny and odd. (www.npr.org) עוד...

Nearly 7,000 workers to lose jobs in Boeing’s first wave of job cuts

Boeing will notify nearly 7,000 employees this week that their jobs will be eliminated as part of a 10% companywide staff reduction that targets the aerospace giant’s commercial aircraft business. (www.cnn.com) עוד...

How the ACJ320neo family has come of age

Five years ago John Leahy, then Airbus chief operating officer, made his first and only visit to EBACE, to sign a single aircraft deal that heralded the launch of the ACJ320neo family, and a new era for the corporate airliner family. (www.flightglobal.com) עוד...