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PeopleICAO and IATA agree to share information from safety audits
Montreal, Canada - To better identify potential safety risks and prevent aircraft accidents
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) have agreed to share safety-related information from their respective audit programmes to better... more
AirlinesSN Brussels-Virgin Express: by 2007 the new carrier, born by the merger of the two airlines will start to fly
Brussels, Belgium - The announcement was made during a press conference
During the press conference, Etienne Devignon, SN AIR Holding President, and Neil Burrows, SN Brussels e Virgin Express CEO, announced that in 2007 the two carriers will present their-selves to the public... more
AirlinesBMED: by April the route London-Ankara will be operative
Ankara, Turkey - It was made known by company's sources
BMED, British Mediterranean Airways Limited, Turkish carrier which operates in franchising with British Airways, should have to start to operate within the end of April a new route. It is the direct connection... more
AirlinesBMED: by April the route London-Ankara will be operative
Ankara, Turkey - It was made known by company's sources
BMED, British Mediterranean Airways Limited, Turkish carrier which operates in franchising with British Airways, should have to start to operate within the end of April a new route. It is the direct connection... more
Science and technologyAeroports de Paris: in the 2005 there was a profit of EUR 179.9 million
Paris, France - By June the privatization phase should have to start
Aeroports de Paris company, which manages the French capital’s airports, made known to have closed the 2005 accounting period with a net profit of EUR 179.9 million, +24.4% respect the 2004. AdP declared m... more
DefenseItalian Minister, Martino, talked about the Defence's cuts
Rome, Italy - The speech in an Armed Forces' forum
Italian Minister of Defence, Antonio Martino, speaking on last Friday at the Armed Forces’ forum "militari.info", talked about the cuts in the allocations for his Ministry. The decrease in the budget i... more
AirlinesLOT has a new chief executive
Warsaw, Poland - His name is Krzysztof Kapis, Marek Grabarek's successor
Polish flag airline, LOT SA, announced the name of of the new chief executive, Krzysztof Kapis, already head of national Civil Aviation Office. The previous chief executive, Marek Grabarek, was dismissed... more
Science and technologyTourists remember Pope Wojtyla at Fiumicino airport
Rome, Italy - Dozen messages left in the air station chapel
In the first anniversary of Karol Wojtyla’s death, several travellers passed at "Leonardo Da Vinci" Airport in Rome-Fiumicino left messages in the prayer book in the chapel allocated in international d... more
Weather forecastsEurofly present at BMT in Naples from April 7 to 9
Milan, Italy - It will be the occasion also to announce the flight Naples-Moscow and the restart of that one to New York
Eurofly, the airline leader in the leisure field, is present also this year at the "Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo" in Naples from April 7 to 9 at the stand 5109, 5110, 5111, pavilion 5. An unique occasion... more
MiscellaneousEmergency landing because of a passenger's heart attack
Pisa, Italy - It happened in an Alitalia Milan-Rome flight
AZ-2045 Alitalia flight, left from Milan-Linate at 11:05 am last Friday and headed to Rome, was forced to an emergency landing at Pisa’s airport because of a sudden illness of a passenger who suffered a... more
Science and technologyThe airplane changing shape on the fly
Washington, USA - The prototype is being studied at MIT
A research made by MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and financed by DARPA, Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, with the contribution of Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Karlsruhe... more
IndustryATR: Kingfisher Airlines took delivery of its first ATR-72/500 aircraft
Toulouse, France - Following the signature of a contract for twenty new aircraft unveiled in November 2005
Kingfisher Airlines, India’s fastest growing airline took delivery of its first ATR-72/500 aircraft. This aircraft is the first to be delivered following the signature of a contract for twenty new ATR-72/500s u... more
AccidentsAir incident in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 19 people dead
In the night between last Friday and Saturday a Let-410, made in Czech Republic, with 19 people on board, fell down in Serra do Rio Bonito while it was flying from the oil district of Macaé and Rio de... more
AirlinesVueling announces new route Barcelona-Venice
Milan, Italy - After that inaugural in Italy from Madrid to Milan just three months ago
Vueling, new-generation Spanish carrier, after three months of the inauguration of its first route in Italy, Madrid-Milan, announces new link Barcelona-Venice and on the occasion it presents itself on... more
IndustryGECAS purchases 60 B-737s
Seattle, USA - Placed a firm order for USD 4bn
GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS), General Electric’s aircraft leasing and financing unit, announced the order of 30 Boeing 737s, with the option to buy 30 more. The transaction for total 60 airplanes a... more
Weather forecastsAir shows and exhibitions in the first week of April
Rome, Italy - From today, Monday 3 to next Sunday 9
Monday 03 - Gliding - 2006 Italian Nationals. Turin, Italy. + 39 06 36 08 461 www.fivv.it Tuesday 04 - Aerospace Testing Expo 2006 Europe. Hamburg Messe and Congress, Hamburg, Germany. +... more
MiscellaneousUS helicopter shot down in Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq - The action has been claimed by Islamic guerrilla
On last Saturday an US helicopter was shot down in Iraq, in the southern district of Yusufiya where Sunnite guerrilla is still very strong. The action has been claimed by "The lions of Islam of Rashedin’s A... more
AirlinesLloyd Aero Boliviano. Morales: I don't want to pay an hush-money businessman's debts
La Paz, Bolivia - Bolivia's President Evo Morales said it
"In this moment I cannot pay the debts of a hush-money businessman. It is a mistake that I cannot make. The Government could intervene but only to achieve an agreement between the carrier and the workers".... more
AirlinesAlitalia flight attendants' strike revoked
Rome, Italy - Trade unions' requests have been satisfied
Alitalia flight attendants’ 24 hours strike, that tomorrow April 4 should have had to hit all the flights starting from Italy, was revoked (see for details AVIONEWS). CGIL, CISL, UIL and UGL (Italian T... more
IndustrySikorsky Aircraft Corp. awarded of a over 22 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the MJ-53 helicopter
Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., Stratford, Conn., is being awarded a $22,385,455 firm fixed priced overhaul/repair contract to provide overhaul/repair of the main gearbox, elastomerticmertic main rotor hub and... more
IndustryRaytheon Space & Airborne Systems awarded of a near 23 USDm order
Washington, Usa - For the F/A-18 aircraft
Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems, El Segundo, Calif., is being awarded $22,850,000 for firm-fixed-price order 0007 against a basic ordering agreement (N00383-04-G-001H) for AN/APG-73 radar spares used... more
CuriositiesThe MB-326 in static exhibition permanent in Varese will change the placement
Varese, Italy - Ten technicians sent by Aermacchi to arrange to disassemble it and install it again
Ten Aermacchi’s technicians will be assigned next Monday to disassemble the MB-326 situated in Varese (Piazza della Libertà): two semi-wings and tail will be disassembled, and a strong crane will arrange to... more
HelicoptersAgustaWestland: Brazilian company Cosan SA takes delivery of a "Grand"
Cascina Costa di Samarate, Italy - Orders for more than 70 helicopters have been placed since its launch in July 2004
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, is pleased to announce the delivery of the first Grand helicopter to Brazil. The customer, Cosan SA, will use the Grand to shuttle passengers between its plants... more
Science and technologyAeradria: Hlx.com's new Cologne/Bonn-Rimini flight inaugurated
Rimini, Italy - A positive baptism
"A splendid day saluted this morning, March 31, the punctual (11:55am) arrival of the first passengers (80) of the inaugural flight of the Summer connection (March-October) che Hlx.com (German low-cost... more
Press releaseAlitalia (4). easyJet: It is not Alitalia to decide who is admitted in the Italian market
Rome, Italy - easyJet's country manager for Italy Arnaldo Munoz's statement
"We are surprised by the declarations of the Engineer Cimoli during the shareholders’ assembly today. Or he refuses to see the facts or he doesn’t know the market in which he operates. His declarations are... more
IndustryThales (2). Breton: strategic orientation are decided by governance institutions
Paris, France - It was declared by French Minister of Economy Thierry Breton during the quarterly press conference
"As in all the enterprises, governance institutions have to decide about the strategic orientation and not elsewhere. [...] The State is a shareholder of Thales and for this it has some administrators... more
AerospaceFirst Brazilian astronaut in orbit
Moscow, Russia - Problems for data transmission during Soyuz's launch
The first Brazilian astronaut of the history, Marcos Pontes, left yesterday from the cosmodrome of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on board of the Russian shuttle Soyuz, on which, with the Us astronaut Williams,... more
IndustryThales. "Le Tribune": merger project with Alcatel postponed
Rome, Italy - French newspapers also today talked about the big merger Alcatel-Thales-EADS
French newspapers "Le figaro" and "Les Echos" also today talked about comments and indiscretions about the event around which there is the attention of all the space, aeronautical and ICT industries. According... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli Armed Forces negate their involvement in the dispatch of Abu Yussef Al Quqa
Tel Aviv, Israel - The news had been popularized by Radio Jerusalem
Israeli military radio made known that Tel Aviv’s Armed forces negate the news, popularized by Radio Jerusalem, about their involvement in the killing of Abu Yussef Al Quqa, commandant of the Sallah-a-din B... more
AccidentsFound an aircraft missing from 48 hours near Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Also USA cooperates to the rescue services
Rescue and search teams localized, in Dominican Republic, the Cessna 172 which took off on last Wednesday from an air station near the Caribbean State’s country, loosing after few minutes the radio connection w... more
AirlinesToday the announcement of the merger between SN Brussels and Virgin Express
Brussels, Belgium - A press conference expected for today
Two airlines, both based in Belgium belong already to the same holding, the SN Air, but until today have preferred to maintain names and to offer different services. Low-cost carrier the Virgin Express,... more
AirlinesAlitalia (3): shareholders' assembly approved 2005 budget
Rome, Italy - Alitalia's loss for EUR 160 million
Present the 50.13% of the corporate stock, according with Alitalia President and CEO Giancarlo Cimoli, the associates’ assembly approved in the majority the 2005 budget. the results show a negative performance a... more
AirlinesAlitalia (2). Cimoli: Italy didn't make an enlightened air transport policy
Rome, Italy - Alitalia's CEO mentioned the cases of Ryanair at Bergamo and easyJet at Malpensa
Alitalia’s President and CEO Giancarlo Cimoli, during his speech at the shareholders assembly this morning, said that "In Italy the air transport policy, whit the low-cost carriers’ arrival, was not car... more
Press releaseAlitalia: decisions by shareholders' meeting
Rome, Italy - It has gathered under Cimoli's chairmanship
"The Alitalia stockholders’ assembly, gathered today in Rome under Cimoli’s chairmanship, has decided to approve the budget at December 31, 2005, from which a loss of EUR 160.237.795 results, of which EUR... more
Civil aviationFAA (Correction) AD on GROB-WERKE model G-120A airplanes
Washington, Usa - Re-issued by FAA this AD in its entirety to help eliminate any confusion that this AD may have created
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: March 29, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 60)] [Page 15559] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation... more
AccidentsLibyan aircraft out of runway at Moscow airport
Moscow, Russia - On the aircraft there were no passengers
Yesterday a Libyan Ilyushin went out of the runway after to have take land at the Russian capital airport of Domodiedovo. There were no passengers on board. The aircraft went out of the runway for about... more
PeopleAirbus seriously damaged by bad weather in Brazil
Sint Paul, Brazil - The aircraft anyway took land without problems
Yesterday an Airbus of TAM, one of the most important Brazilian carriers, in flight from Belo Horizonte to Saint Paul, hade serious damages during tha flight because odf the bad weather that from some... more
AirlinesAlitalia's flights attendants could strike
Rome, Italia - Negotiations to solve the carriers' problems
The Union’s representatives of Alitalia’s flights attendants, confirmed that if within Monday there will be not an agreement with the carrier on April 4 there will be a strike (see for details AVIONEWS). CGI... more
AirlinesLloyd Aero Boliviano's workers in strike
a Paz, Bolivia - Country's air stations paralized
Since yesterday Lloyd Aero Boliviano’s workers are in strike, to protest against the scarce interest that La Paz Government shows for the problems of their carrier. The workers paralized the activities o... more
DefenseHungary took on delivery officially the Gripen fighter
Budapest, Hungary - The aircraft will be able to be integrated perfectly in NATO's missions
Yesterday, during a ceremony which took place at Kecskémet air base in Hungary, Swedish Defence Minister Leni Bjorklund delivered officially to his Hungarian counterpart, Ferenc Juhasz, the first five... more
Latest newsSea Harrier F-A2 in retirement
London, UK - The aircraft became a legend during Falklands war
After more than 20 years of services Royal Navy decided to put in retirement the Sea Harrier F-A2, the aircraft that during Falklands war, destroying 8 enemy’s planes in air-air duels, achieved the status o... more
AirlinesTurkish Airlines: since today Ankara-Venice flight will start officially
Rome, Italy - It was made known "Cihan" press agency
Turkish press agency "Cihan News Agency-Business" made known that today March 31 will be inaugurated the Turkish Airlines Ankara-Venice flight. The flight will be operated with a B-737 version 800 or with... more
AirlinesDelta Airlines: thousand directors on the point of to be fired
New York, Usa - The carrier expects to save so USD 200 million
Delta Airlines, US carrier’s internal sources, unveiled that the air company would have the intention, already starting from next week, to begin a procedure for the overall discharge of about thousand d... more
AirlinesAeroflot: from 2008 A-320 will enter in the fleet
Moscow, Russia - It was made known by Lev Koshlyakov, General vice-Director of the carrier
The Vice-Director of Russian airline Aeroflot announced yesterday that Russian carrier will buy about 35 A-320 which will enter in the fleet between the 2008 and the 2015. Airbus’ models will replace t... more
Press releaseTelespazio: signed an agreement for the development of communication in Mozambique
Rome, Italy - It was announced by Finmeccanica's company in a statement
Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Alcatel’s company, and Mozambique Minister of Defence signed an agreement which forecasts the development of the telecommunication in the African country, with particular attention t... more
IndustryAll is ready for the merger between Alcatel and Thales
Paris, France - It was written by French newspaper "Le Figaro"
The prestigious French newspaper "Le Figaro" wrote yesterday that the merger operation between Thales and Alcatel will be realized soon. The two companies are in agreement as about the valorization as... more
AirlinesFinnair signed with Airbus for new long range's fleet
Milan, Italy - And it opts for the A-350/800, A-350/900 and A-340/300E's versions
Finnair confirmed its decision to acquire the Airbus A-350 signing the contract for purchase nine aircraft of this type, in the A-350/900 variant, with an option for other four. The carrier had announced... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Corp. awarded of a near 27 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the C-17 aircraft
McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $26,823,300 cost plus fixed fee, firm fixed price contract modification to provide for CY07 Global Reach Improvement Program nonrecurring... more
IndustryBell-Boeing Joint Program Office awarded of a over 17 USDm contract
Washington, USA - For the V-22 aircraft
Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $17,722,078 ceiling-priced order against a previously issued Basic Ordering Agreement (N68335-04-G-0004) to design, develop, manufacture,... more
IndustryMcDonnell Douglas Corp. awarded of a over 5 USDm contract
Washington, Usa - For the T-45C aircraft
McDonnell Douglas Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $5,707,067 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-priced contract (N00019-04-C-0013) to... more