Nearly a decade late, Berlin's Brandenburg Airport finally opens (during a pandemic)

It's nearly a decade behind schedule, 4 billion euros over budget and there's a global pandemic crippling the aviation industry. Happy Halloween to Berlin's beleaguered Brandenburg Airport, which finally opens its doors this Saturday. (www.cnn.com) עוד...

Alibaba launches South Korea logistics service

Alibaba will operate several weekly flights between China and South Korea, plus handle ocean, warehousing, and other trade matters for businesses. (www.freightwaves.com) עוד...

Lufthansa Begins BER Use With Special Flight | Airways Magazine

On October 31, Lufthansa (LH) will fly one of its A320neo named 'Neubrandenburg' to BER for the first time with 40 executives and other VIPs. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

Delta Air Lines, Pilot Union Cut Deal to Avoid Furloughs | Airways Magazine

Delta Air Lines (DL) and its Pilot union negotiated a tentative cost-cutting agreement that would avoid furloughs until January 1, 2022. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

Azul E195 Emergency Slide Activates, Damages Ground Vehicle | Airways Magazine

An Azul (AD) Embraer E195 emergency slide accidentally activated and damaged a ground vehicle at Manaus (MAO) Airport, Brazil on October 27. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

Avianca A320-200 Refuses to Land at Pasto's Runway 20 | Airways Magazine

An Avianca (AV) Airbus A320-200 flying from Bogota to Pasto's Antonio Nariño Airport (PSO) in Colombia, refused to land on Pasto's runway 20. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

American Airlines Cancels Bahamas COVID-19 Pre-flight Testing | Airways Magazine

American Airlines (AA) has withdrawn its intention to carry out COVID-19 rapid testing prior to allowing passengers to board flights. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

Embraer Unveils New Turboprop Expected For 2027 | Airways Magazine

Embraer, a world leader in private, regional, and turboprop aircraft manufacturing, presented a new turboprop aircraft for the first time. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

Japan Airlines to Retire 24 Boeing 777, Move Domestically | Airways Magazine

Japan Airlines (JL) will retire up to 24 of its Boeing 777 aircraft over the next three years, as it battles the coronavirus crisis. (airwaysmag.com) עוד...

SpiceJet: Indian airline turns to seaplanes to boost travel

The country's biggest regional airline has approval for 18 seaplane routes. One of these routes is to Kevadia, the site of the world's tallest statue - an 182-metre tribute to the country's first home minister, Vallabhbhai Patel. During the pandemic, SpiceJet is focusing on new sources of revenue, including transporting cargo and regional flights using smaller planes. Airlines have struggled during the coronavirus to remain profitable and many have gone bust, including the… (www.bbc.com) עוד...

Eastern CEO Details Strategy After Purchasing Additional 777s

Eastern Airlines made headlines in June when it became the only U.S. non-legacy commercial airline to add a passenger Boeing 777 to its fleet. As N771KW, the airline’s first 777, completes its final conformity checks this week, Eastern is already committed to expanding the fleet type with the recent acquisition of two additional 777-200 jets. The Wayne, Pennsylvania-based airline completed the purchase of two additional 777s on Oct. 15. The aircraft, N783KW and N821JT, are expected to begin… (airlinegeeks.com) עוד...

Japan's first passenger jet in decades put on hold

Plans for Japan's first homegrown passenger plane in more than five decades have been frozen as the airline industry suffers from a deep drop in demand. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the company behind the new SpaceJet, is cutting its budget for the project. Long-delayed, the Mitsubishi SpaceJet has missed six delivery deadlines going back to 2013. Test flights in the US were suspended this year due to the virus pandemic. (www.yahoo.com) עוד...

New Boeing jet unlikely but depends on MAX return -Safran CEO

Boeing is unlikely to launch a new plane in the near future but its options will depend in part on how successfully its grounded 737 MAX regains its position in the market, the head of one of its engine suppliers said on Friday. The MAX is expected to win safety approval within weeks following a 19-month grounding in the wake of two crashes, Safran Chief Executive Philippe Petitcolin said. "We are doing everything with Boeing to put the MAX back in service in the best possible… (www.yahoo.com) עוד...

United Airlines to offer free coronavirus testing for passengers on select routes

In what could be a glimpse into the future of pandemic air travel, United Airlines will begin offering free coronavirus tests to passengers on select routes. United hopes the move will not only increase traffic on mostly empty transatlantic flights, but also spark international cooperation to break down travel restrictions. "We firmly believe that testing is a key component of a multi-layered approach to safely opening travel across the globe," United's managing director of… (www.msn.com) עוד...

Four Reasons I Prefer The A350 To The B787

As we see airlines continue to retire four engine planes, it’s pretty clear that the future of long haul aviation involves planes with two engines (onemileatatime.com) עוד...

How United Airlines keeps ‘critters’ out of parked planes and gets them ready to fly again

A line of Boeing 737s and 777s, as well as several smaller birds, fill the ramp outside of a United Airlines hangar in a remote corner of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The planes are here for a variety of reasons. Most are in for standard maintenance — needed even during the coronavirus pandemic — as they rotate in and out of the hometown airline’s schedule. But several wide-body 777s are parked because of the crisis with a return-to-flying date yet unknown. “These are investments,”… (www.msn.com) עוד...

Whoops. Passenger boards plane, flies to Hawaii with COVID-19.

A loophole in the new testing regimen for Hawaii-bound fliers allowed a passenger to fly from Chicago to Honolulu on Tuesday infected with COVID-19, possibly spreading it to other passengers. Hawaii's Department of Health confirmed to Hawaii News Now that the passenger was aboard a United Airlines jet flying from Chicago to Honolulu that landed about 1:30 p.m. The passenger started the trip with a "pending" test result, which exposes the loophole that allowed this to happen.… (www.msn.com) עוד...

Could There Ever Be An Airbus A220XLR?

When Airbus launched the A321XLR at the Paris Air Show last year, airlines were enthusiastic about placing large orders for the long-range narrowbody. (simpleflying.com) עוד...

Airbus A220 vs Boeing 737 – Which Plane Is Better?

Airbus previously rolled out a competitor to the Boeing 737, the Airbus A320, and has had plenty of success in the market. However, this new jet could sneak in and cause a major upset against the industry giant. (simpleflying.com) עוד...

‘We’re Going to Ground the Plane’: How Boeing’s Max Was Parked

For days after the second fatal crash of a Boeing Co. 737 Max last year, one nation after another halted flights on the beleaguered jetliner. (www.bnnbloomberg.ca) עוד...

Final Delta 777 Flight to Depart at 1PM Today

Later today, Delta Airlines is set to retire all 777 aircraft from their fleet. The last flight is set to depart New York's JFK Airport on Saturday at 1pm local time, and arrive in Los Angeles at around 4 pm local time. The flight number will ceremonially be DL8777. (theexplorerblog.com) עוד...

First planes land at Berlin's much-delayed airport

The first passengers landed at Berlin's new airport on Saturday, nine years after it was originally due to open and as the global aviation industry struggles with collapsing demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of climate activists demonstrated at the new airport on Saturday, carrying signs reading "Flying is so yesterday" and "BER opening cancelled due to the climate crisis", using the code for the full name of Berlin-Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport. (www.msn.com) עוד...

Emirates Set To Receive New Airbus A380 In November

Airline is preparing to receive another unit of the widebody just next month. (simpleflying.com) עוד...