Lufthansa Group has presented its best ever financial results on Thursday. The airline’s adjusted EBIT profit jumped around 70 percent to almost 3 billion Euro. Total Lufthansa Group revenues in 2017 amounted to 35.6 billion Euro, an around 12 percent increase on 2016. Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr says: “Our endeavors of the past few years…
The GE9X engine lifted off on March 13 under wing of GE Aviation’s 747 flying testbed in Victorville, California, for its first flight test. The engine that will power Boeing’s new 777X aircraft took to the air around 10:40 a.m. Pacific standard time and flew for more than four hours on its first flight. During…
Air New Zealand is known for it’s unique and funny Air Safety Videos. It has come under fire for it’s latest video. The video is set in Antarctica and features actor and environmentalist Adrian Grenier. Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed into Antarctica’s Mt Erebus in 1979. All 237 passengers and 20 crew on board…
According to CNN, seven US service members were killed Thursday in a helicopter crash in western Iraq, a US military official said. There were no survivors in the crash, the official said, adding that the crew of a second helicopter flying alongside did not report seeing signs of hostile fire when the helicopter went down.…
Ryanair has announced its first flights to Turkey with two new routes. The airline said it will operate two new routes weekly from Dublin and Bratislava to the southwestern Turkish resort of Dalaman from June. Both routes will operate once a week from June, as part of the airline’s summer 2018 schedule, and go on sale…
Virgin Atlantic has announced a second daily service between Heathrow and Johannesburg for winter 2018. The new flight will add an additional 180,000 seats on the route on board a new Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Virgin Atlantic’s new service will begin flying in winter 2018 with the first flight departing on October 28th. The additional daily…