Luftansa has scheduled an Airbus A350 flight to bid farewell to Berlin Tegel Airport. The flight will depart Berlin Tegal on 7th November. With the closure of Belin Tegal Airport all flight will be operated from the new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. After years of delays, the new Berlin-Brandenburg Airport will open on 31st October. The final…
Scandinavian carrier SAS has taken delivery of its first of three A321LR on lease from Air Lease Corporation. The delivery flight from Airbus Hamburg to its home base in Copenhagen uses a 10 percent sustainable jet fuel blend. The initiative is part of SAS’s commitment to reducing its carbon footprint and Airbus’ objective to contributing…
After test flights conducted in September, EASA is performing final document reviews ahead of a draft airworthiness directive it expects to issue next month. Europe’s top aviation regulator said he’s satisfied that changes to Boeing 737 MAX have made the plane safe enough to return to the region’s skies before 2020 is out, even as…
Boeing didn’t book a single new jet order in September. A total of 11 deliveries were logged last month — less than half the number from the same period last year — and seven of them were the 787 jet built in South Carolina and Washington state. Though below pre-pandemic levels, that’s the highest 787…
Libya Air Force One started engines after 6 years storage in France Yesterday, the Airbus A340-200 of Libyan authorities rolled out for engines test after 6 years of storage. The aircraft (reg. 5A-ONE) was stored at Perpignan–Rivesaltes Airport in France. Vincent Vannier posted a tweet about this first engine start up. As the aircraft…
Qantas is planning to return to London Heathrow for repatriation flights. Qantas will return to London Heathrow for 4 repatriation flights on October 22, November 5, 9, 23. Inbound flights will be direct from Perth Airports while outbound flights will be to Darwin International Airport. The airline will use a Boeing 787-9, planning to have…
Ryanair is to close its base at Shannon Airport for the winter – as well as its base at Cork. It will put enormous strain on the airport and have a devastating impact on the Midwest region. The airport has already suffered heavily from Covie-19 restrictions and since Since March, there have been 69 job…
Norwegian Air is close to reaching an agreement with Italian leisure carrier Neos for the sale of two of its 787-9 Dreamliners amid the coronavirus pandemic. These two 787-9s will join Neos fleet of four Dreamliners of the same model and replace Neos Air Boeing 767. Neos Air returned three 767s to the lessor recently.…
Singapore Airlines’ Airbus A380 restaurant tickets were sold out in just half an hour on Monday. Singapore Airlines announced that the airline is turning two of its Airbus A380s superjumbos parked at Changi Airport into a temporary restaurants on October 24th and 25th. The airline announced that tickets for economy seats start at SG$53 (US$40)…
For the duration of the winter timetable (until the end of March 2021) Lufthansa will be deploying four of the currently parked Airbus A350-900s to its hub in Frankfurt. Over the next few months the A350-900 will be serving Chicago and Los Angeles from Frankfurt, by temporarily replacing the Boeing 747-8 for this period of…
Icelandair has reached an agreement regarding sale of three Boeing 757-200 aircraft. The final documentation is expected to be completed in the upcoming weeks. Subsequently, the aircraft will be converted into cargo aircraft. The net sale price of the three aircraft is approximately USD 21 million which is USD 2-3 million above book value. Two…
Delta Airlines has confirmed that the airline will operate its final Boeing 777 flight on 31st October. The Atlanta-based carrier has scheduled two final flights at the end of October, the carrier confirmed to AirlineGeeks. The first of these flights will be operated from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport on October…