Flybe flights are set to relaunch next month with bases in Birmingham and Belfast City two years after the airline collapsed. The airline was pushed into administration in March 2020 as Covid wreaked havoc on parts of the travel market, but was saved last year when its business and assets were bought by Thyme Opco,…
The pilots of the China Eastern plane that crashed failed to respond to calls from air traffic controllers, according to the Chinese aviation regulator. Air traffic controllers launched multiple attempts to reach the pilots of flight MU5735 after it turned into a nosedive position, but received no response, head of aviation safety at the Civil…
Italian union protests against sending weapons to Ukraine in humanitarian cargo. “We don’t think sending weapons solves the situation [conflict between Russia and Ukraine] because we risk a third world war,” said a representative of an Italian workers union that blocked arms shipments to Ukraine under the guise of humanitarian aid. Nearly 2,000 people participated…
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has revoked several airworthiness certificates and approvals for the Russian aircraft types. This sanction will severely impact the development of aircraft which haven’t flown commercially yet, like the Irkut MC-21, the turboprop IL-114-300, and the Chinese-Russian jet, CR929. The existing certification for six aircraft types, including the Sukhoi…
Russia’s biggest cargo airline Volga-Dnepr Group has suspended all flights using Boeing aircraft due to Western sanctions, it said on Friday. Sanctions have cut off the supply of most aircraft and parts to Russia. The United States and Europe have closed their airspace to Russian airlines, and Moscow has responded by imposing the same measure…
On March 15, 2022, Lufthansa Cargo’s first Airbus 321 freighter entered into service for the first time. The flight took off at 16:21 (CET), under flight number LH8350. The flight took off from Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) to Dublin, Ireland (DUB), then continued to Manchester, UK (MAN). The aircraft, named “Hello Europe” was loaded with regular…
Facing restrictions, the busiest airport in Russia had to limit operations. Moscow Sheremetyevo airport stopped operations on runway launched in 2019. The airport also suspended investment projects and significantly reduced all non-production costs. In addition, the terminals E,D of “Sheremetyevo” airport are temporarily closed.
The UK’s busiest airport will abandon the requirement to wear a mask from Wednesday this week. Face coverings at Heathrow will no longer be mandatory, though the airport “strongly encourages those at the airport to continue wearing a face covering – particularly when coming into close contact with others”. A statement read: “Face coverings will…
Russian fired missiles at Dnipro, destroying a runway and severely damaging infrastructure. “At night, the enemy attacked Dnipro airport. Two missile strikes. A runway was destroyed. A terminal was damaged. Large-scale destruction,” Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration Valentyn Reznichenko posted on Facebook. Reznichenko noted that it would take a long time to restore…
Hundreds of foreign-owned aircraft could be seized by the Russian government. Russian state media outlet TASS reported that President Putin had enacted legislation for the Russian government to seize foreign leased aircraft and re-register them as locally owned assets. The announcement after EU revoked the licenses of hundreds of aircraft leased to Russian operators in…
The Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority (BCCA) has suspended the licenses of around 740 Russian aircraft operating under the agreement between Bermuda and the Russian Federation. The suspension of all Certificates of Airworthiness of those aircraft was brought into effect at 23:59 UTC on March 12th 2022. In a press release, a BCCA spokesperson said: “International…
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s private jet has landed at Ben Gurion airport, after taking off earlier from Moscow. It is not clear if the billionaire himself was on board. Even though Abramovich has Israeli citizenship, his presence in Israel at the current time could place the Israeli government at odds with the US and EU.…