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HelicoptersUnited Arab Emirates: two AB-412EPs and two AW-139s for Armed Forces SAR operations
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Thanks to a contract with Falcon Aviation Services and Evergreen Helicopters
United Arab Emirates Armed Forces gave military SAR (Search & Rescue) operations to Abu Dhabi’s Falcon Aviation Services, which will be supported by Evergreen Helicopters Inc. services. Starting from A... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on Agusta S.p.A. Model AB-139 helicopters
Washington, USA - Procedures for a detailed visual inspection for cracks on the tailpipes
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration 14 CFR Part 39 Directorate Identifier 2006-SW-20-AD;... more
PeopleMaybe soon low-cost flights to Malta
La Valletta, Malta - By next weeks the Island's Government will examine the proposals by several carriers
It could come within next weeks the decision of Malta Government to admit low-cost flights into the air links system of the Island. The Maltese minister of Tourism, Francis Zammit Dimech, has in fact announced... more
AirlinesRyanair aims to the conquest of Italian market
Rome, Italy - But it blames Alitalia for beeing too protected
The responsible for marketing of South-Europe and North-Africa for Ryanair, Bridget Dowling, states that the low-cost carriers are growing a lot and accuses the traditional carriers of "Trying to block... more
AirlinesAir China debuts in the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Beijing, China - Lower price respect to the value of issue
The Chinese Air China Airlines, one of the main of Asian State, last Friday has launched its presence in the Shanghai Stock Exchange with a price equal to 2,78 yuan (USD 0,35) every action, 0,02 yuan less... more
AirlinesOver +20% sales for Blue Panorama
Rome, Italy - In summer 2006
Since June Blue Panorama Airlines data showed a booking and sales increase that surpasses 20%, with particular success of routes to Grenoble and Nice. The load factor on this destination in week-ends reached... more
IndustryBoeing acquires new marine information system "C-Map"
Seattle, Usa - It will become part of Jeppesen marine division
Boeing has announced last Friday its intention to develop the "C-ap", a provider of marine digital cartography, data services and other navigation informations, to add it on the equipment of Jeppesen,... more
IndustryBoeing will close down C-17 production
Long Beach, USA - Because of lack of orders by US Government
Boeing officially announced closure of C-17 production sending 700 letters to aircraft components providers. In office since early Nineties, the C-17 allowed USD 3bn average income per year but, despite... more
Civil aviationFAA AD on the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MU-2B Series Airplanes
Washington, USA - To detect and correct improper adjustment of the flight idle fuel flow setting
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 18, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 160)] [Page 47697-47699] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
PeopleLow-cost flights could reach 40% of market within 2010
Rome, Italy - It is underlined by a Iata study
According to Iata (International Air Transport Association) estimate the low-cost market will reach within 2010 an increase of 40%, against 5,1% of average growth of traditional air transport. Since 2001,... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (3): UN is managing UNIFIL mission
Beirut, Lebanon - Today Roed-Larsen and Nambiar in Jerusalem
After their visit in Beirut, UN delegates Terje Roed-Larsen and Vijay Nambiar are in Jerusalem today to talk about their fears on truce between Israel and Hezbollah militants. UN is trying to gather a... more
IndustryRaytheon Aircraft Co. receives a contract for a value equal to USD 10 millions
Washington, Usa - JPATS for the T-6A of the Navy
Raytheon Aircraft Co., Wichita, Kan., is being awarded a $9,932,738 commercial firm fixed price contract modification. This contract modification provides for Navy Lot 13 JPATS T-6A production aircraft... more
AirlinesEurofly was overestimated when quoted at the Stock Exchange
Milan, Italy - The Italian economic newspaper "Il Sole-24 Ore" said that
The Italian economic newspaper "Il Sole-24 Ore" said that Eurofly is worth EUR 32m for the stock market and its share is EUR 2.5, "Much closer to the company’s fair value according to analysts than EUR 6... more
IndustryLockheed Martin Corp. receives a contract for a value of USD 120 millions
Washington, Usa - Logistics Support for F-22A
Lockheed Martin Corp., Ft. Worth, Texas, is being awarded a $119,920,000 firm-fixed price and cost-plus-fixed fee contract modification. This undefinitized contract action increases the current undefinitized... more
MiscellaneousThey have been changed for terrorists and made been get off the plane directed to Malaga
London, United Kingdom – The two men had a strange look according to the other passengers
Still keep starting the terrorism alarm all around the world (fortunately false until now). This time the fact has happened last Wednesday, but only yesterday the air company Monarch Airlines, owner of... more
AirlinesJudge agrees with Ryanair pilots
Dublin, Ireland - About presumed threats on REPA website
Dublin Court rejected Ryanair’s request to reveal names and addresses of REPA website participants and condamned the Irish carrier to pay legal expenses of British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) and... more
Civil aviationAD FAA on Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. Models PC-12 and PC-12/45 Airplanes
Washington, USA - To identify and correct an unsafe conditions on an aviation product
Airworthiness Directive Federal Register Information [Federal Register: August 14, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 156)] [Page 46389-46390] Header Information DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): last Saturday Israeli air raid on Bekaa, cease-fire at risk
Beirut, Lebanon . Strong condemnation by Kofi Annan, Tel Aviv threatens: we'll go on if the weapons supply from Siria won't be ban
Last Saturday the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon has been put to an hard test by an air raid of special air-transported units of the David’s star aviation in the Bekaa valley. The blitz, t... more
MiscellaneousLampedusa shipwrecks (2): searches of missing people pass to Malta
Lampedusa, Italy - New disembarkings this morning
Another ship with about 150 immigrants on board has been sighted today 40 miles South of Lampedusa by an Italian fishing boat and two Coastguard ships have been sent there. Italian authorities stopped... more
Civil aviationCIA flights: the Austrian weekly newspaper "Profil" relates the deposition of two people seized in Jordan in 2002 and 2003
Vienna, Austria - One of their should have had contacts with Abu Omar
The Austrian weekly newspaper "Profil", in the number of today, relates the deposition of two persons seized by CIA in Jordan respectively in 2002 and 2003. The first deposition is that of Gamal Menshawi,... more
CuriositiesUS movies: fear on planes wins at box office
Washington, USA – Among best seen films, two are about security
American public is very fond of stories about air disasters, terrorist attacks and various catastrophes, perhaps to exorcize these times fears, perhaps because turning anything into business is a typical... more
MiscellaneousGerman tourist missing on Trasimeno lake: his body has been found
Perugia, Italy - The researches have been done by Fire Fighters with the help of an helicopter and of divers teams
It has been found yesterday evening, at about 400 meters far from the shores, the life-less body of the German tourist missing from last Friday in the water of Trasimeno lake, while was swimming with the... more
MiscellaneousExplosion in a market in Moscow: 9 deads, 25 injured
Moscow, Russia - The Government excludes the terroristic attack
At about 10:30am (local time) a violent explosion happened in a market of a north-east quarter in Moscow. The Russian MInister for Emergency Situations talks about 9 ascertain deads (among which several... more
Latest newsProdi visits the 4th Wing of AMI in Grosseto
Grosseto, Italy - And he asks for Eurofighter and JSF programs
Italian Premier Romano Prodi visited the 4th Wing of Italian Air Force in Grosseto, the only division which currently uses Eurofighter aircrafts. During the visit, the Premier asked for the fighter’s f... more
IndustryNorthrop Grumman Systems Corp. receives a contract equal to USD 10 millions and 800 thousand
Washington, Usa - AN/APN 241 low power color radar for C-130
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Norwalk, Conn., is being awarded a $10,800,000 firm-fixed price contract. This requirements type contract is for interim contractor support for the AN/APN 241 low power... more
IndustryATK Thiokol receives a contract for a value of beyond USD 24 millions
Washington, Usa - Monitoring and assessing's functions of the health and readiness of Peacekeeper Stage I and III rocket motors
ATK Thiokol, Corinne, Utah, is being awarded a $24,300,000 firm-fixed price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. This is a basic contract with five year ordering period to perform the function... more
Airlines700 French tourists blocked in Turkey
Ankara, Turkey - Financial disunion between the travel Agency and the Atlas Jet Airlines
Yesterday, about 700 French Tourists, on return from vacations, have been blocked in three Turkish cities on the score of a financial disunion between their travel agency, the "Elegance" with headquarter... more
IndustryEDO Technical Services Operations receives a contract for a value of the USD 19 millions
Washington, Usa - Purchase of 267 PLM-4 Radar Signal Simulators
EDO Technical Services Operations, Lancaster, Calif., is being awarded a $18,744,201 firm-fixed price contract. This action provides for the purchase of 267 PLM-4 Radar Signal Simulators used to generate... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon: resume the air connections between Beirut and Cairo
Cairo, Egypt - Temporary passage in Amman looking forward to the direct line came reinstated
The Middle East Airlines (MEA) has resumed today, after 40 days of break, the connection between Beirut and Cairo via Amman, this has been retailed by Egyptian journalistic sources. A Lebanese aircraft... more
IndustryAirbus: first tests for Super-Jumbo A-380
Toulouse, France - The deliver of first A-380 is predicted for the end of the year to the Singapore Airlines
From September 4 to 7, the tests for the Super-Jumbo new A-380, the greatest passengers aircraft of the world, two floor, eclipses its direct competitor, the American Boeing 747, ruler of the last decades... more
Civil aviationICAO: extraordinary meeting in September
Montreal, Canada - In order to talk about security emergency in air transport
The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will meet from September 11 to 15 in Montreal, in order to talk about the terrorist threat recently raised by the thwarted plot of August... more
AirlinesNew Super-Jumbo A-380 will land only in any Italian terminals
Rome, Italy - Greater Terminals are needed
The last week, the President of Assoaeroporti Domenico De Paola expressed about new Super-Jumbo A-380, stating that in his opinion not all Italian airports are ready to greet these aircraft, because "are... more
MiscellaneousLampedusa shipwrecks: six corpses were sighted, one was recovered
Lampedusa, Italy - Today searches have been re-started
Today at dawn searches of clandestines lost in the two shipwrecks off the Lampedusa island costs have been re-started. Four guard ships by Italian Coastguard, two by Financial Police, one by Carabinieri... more
IndustryConnexion by Boeing closes down
Seattle, USA - The in-flight wideband service have not received the expected market answer
In 2000 Boeing launched a revolutionary service, Connexion, to supply passengers with wideband internet access. Geostationary satellites and earth reception stations keep connection constant, using a new-conception... more
MiscellaneousWeapons storage explodes in Ukraine: two injured
Kiev,Ukraine - 1500 civilians evacuated, the reason could have been the heat
A military weapons storage in Ukraine, already site of a sequence of explosions lasted for a week in 2004, has been involved again in an incident, that injured two persons. A press release by the Ukraine... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli air raid to Gaza: three injured
Rome, Italy - The objective was a machine shop, considered as a rockets factory by Israel
Local sources retail that last night an Israeli air raid at Gaza would have hit a building used as machine shop, that according to Israel was a "Weapons factory", where the rockets that are launched against... more
CuriositiesIsrael-Lebanon (13): the Turkish government coerces at landing two Iranian aircraft
Ankara, Turkey - "Activity of routine pursuant to international rules"
Only yesterday it was announced that last July 27 and August 8, two Iranian Air cargo directed in Syria have been ceorced at landing and then reached by Turkish Aviation, because under suspicion to transport... more
AirlinesBA promises: within today the luggages delivery will return normal
London, United Kingdom - 20.000 baggages by the ai company in the last week
Refering to the over 20.000 luggages lost by the air company British Airways since last August 10 day of failed terroristic attacks) until today (see for details AVIONEWS), the British carrier has made... more
AerospaceNasa maybe will postpone the launch of "Atlantis"
Washington, Usa - The reason two frayed screws
The Us newspaper "Usa Today" retailed yesterday the news according to which the launch of the Nasa space shuttle "Atlantis", scheduled for next August 27 from the space center "Kennedy Space Center" in... more
AirlinesChaos in British airports: the air companies could ask for a reparation to the Government
London, Great Britain - The amount is about GBP 300m
As anticipated by AVIONEWS in the last days (see for details AVIONEWS 1 and 2), the British air companies involved in the discomfort situation came from the failed terroristic attacks of August 10, could... more
Science and technologyAlitalia: flight Rome-Munich returns for technical reasons
Rome, Italy - The security of flight has not been prejudiced
Yesterday afternoon, an Embraer 145 of Alitalia directed to Munich with 31 passengers on board has been obligated to return in the Fiumicino Airport half hour after the take off for technical reasons,... more
Science and technologyDelays in the luggages delivery at Fiumicino airport for a strike by AdR Handling
Rome, Italy - 200 employees of the airport services society are holding a meeting in these hours
It’s taking place in these hours at "leonardo da Vinci" airport of Fiumicino an assembly of 200 AdR Handling employees, to protest against the selling of the airport service society to the Spanish Fcc, f... more
Military aviationSOREM: from cape to cape of Europe
Rome, Italy - Unnumbered merits to international level
The Sorem, society that manages since beyond eight years the anti-fire fleet of the Italian Civil Defense that included among its ranks 16 Canadair CL-415 and 6 Canadair CL-215, operates from cape to cape... more
Civil aviationUSA: emerge the details about the hijacked flight in the Boston Airport
Boston, USA - "Terrified, not terrorist!"
The woman that two days ago has provoked the hijacking of the flight 923 United Airlines, left from London and directed to Washington, for her bizarre behaviour now risks severe conviction to have resisted... more
AirlinesA judge allow the employees of Northwest Airlines to make a strike
Washington, Usa - The agitation is scheduled for next August 25
The employees of the US air company Northwest Airlines will be allowed to make the strike called for the next August 25, to protest against the salaries and staff cuts threatened by the US carrier. This... more
IndustryBoeing signs a deal with Kaise Aluminium
Seattle, USA- An aeronautical aluminium supply for the realization of aircraft fro civil transport
The aircraft builder industry Boeing has signed an important deal with the American supplier of Aluminium Kaiser, that will see, for a long time, the aeronautical aluminium supply to employ in the realization... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon (2): from Italy also an environmental task force
Rome, Italy - Italy is, with France, the main financer of the Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution
Today, the Council of Ministers has approved also the sending of an environmental task force, proposed by Minister of Environment Alfonso Pecorario Scanio to face the serious environmental problems that... more
DefenseIsrael-Lebanon: green light to Italian mission in Lebanon
Rome, Italy - Parisi: "The mission forecasts long, dangerous, hard and onerous"
This morning, in Palazzo Chigi, the Italian Council of Ministers to treat about the approval of the UN resolution 1701 for Lebanon that request the immediate cease-fire and the sending of an international... more
Civil aviationTerrorism alarm: airport in West Virginia evacuated
Huntington, West Virginia - Found a bottle maybe with explosive inside in the baggages of a woman passengers
It seems to be never-ending the terrorism alert in US airports. And neither the little air stations aer excluded by the alarms, real or false, that cause discomforts and flight delays. The last one to... more
IndustryUSAF: Lockheed Martin protests for the drop of the C-130J
Washington, Usa - GAO is obligated to render a decisions within 100 working days
Last month. Lockheed Martin has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for the Army’s decision to drop the company’s C-130J Super Hercules tactical airlifter from consideration to... more