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AccidentsChinook helicopter down in Afghanistan: four die
Kandahar, Afghanistan - Victims are from Special Operations Task Group, safe or wounded the other eleven onboard
An American soldier and three Australian commandos killed in a helicopter crash, this morning in Afghanistan at 3:39am (local time). The diggers were among 10 Australians from the Special Operations... more
AirlinesTam Airlines: the international load factor reaches the 77.8%
San Paolo, Brazil - New record in May
Tam Airlines has registered a load factor of 77.8% on international flights in May, with a significant 12.3 percentage points increase with respect to the same period of 2009. This is the best record accomplished... more
Press releaseItalian ENAV: new Techno Sky board of directors appointed
Rome, Italy - Antonio Iozzino, Massimo Garbini, and Antonio Serafini are part of it
The board of directors of Enav SpA (Italian Flight Assistance Company) met last Saturday, under the presidency by captain Luigi Martini. It nominated Antonio Iozzino as chairman, Massimo Garbini as CEO,... more
AirlinesVirgin Atlantic: 10 years of London-LV flight celebrated with Dita von Teese
London, UK - The Queen of Burlesque poses with Branson and depicted on the fuselage
Dita Von Teese posed for Virgin Atlantic Airways last Friday to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Flight London-Las Vegas. And more, being on the plane, she is designed as a modern version of Betty... more
ReportSwitzerland. Dies during repatriation, compensation to the family
Zurich, Switzerland - Swiss Confederation will have to pay 50 thousand Francs
The Swiss Confederation will pay fifty thousand francs to the family of Nigerian asylum seeker died at Zurich airport last March during his forced return to their country of origin. The anticipation... more
Helicopters"Azor 2010", the multinational helicopter exercise
Madrid, Spain - With over 40 helicopters and 700 attending from nine EU Member States
As part of the European Defence Agency's (EDA) Helicopter Training Programme (HTP), Spain is hosting a Multinational Helicopter Exercise, from 9 to 24 June 2010, in an extensive manoeuvre area between... more
ReportCongo: Australian mining executive and one of the richest men in the country missing after their plane lost contact
Yaounde, Cameroon - Perhaps it crashed in dense jungle. Search resumed at dawn this morning
Missing in Congo airplane carrying the Australian billionaire Ken Talbot and Geoff Wedlock, chairman of mining company Sundance. The aircraft was directed at the project "Mbalam iron ore" site (which... more
Latest newsThe US Government ordered Russian helicopters for Afghanistan
Washington, USA - The Congress ignites the debate on the choice to buy not American aircraft
The US government was hardly criticized by the some congressmen for preferring Russian helicopter over the American ones. As reported by the "Washington Post" last Saturday, the Defense Department would... more
Accidents11 Mexican soldiers killed in helicopter crash
Durango, Mexico - Bell 412 crashed Saturday, during drug-war mission
Rough weather has been blamed for the crash of a helicopter in which 11 soldiers sent to take part in the war on drug traffickers were killed in northern Mexico. Preliminary information indicates the... more
AirlinesAirbus North America searches for 100 new engineers
Wichita, USA - To be employed at the new plant in Wichita, Kansas
Airbus North America is increasing the productivity in Kansas, inaugurating on next Thursday a second plant in Wichita. In the area, the company has already 200 employees from the beginning of 2010, and... more
OccurrencesSmell of smoke on board B-737 airplane of Malev to Amsterdam
Budapest, Hungary - Aircraft returned to airport, but inspection found no faults
Forced return to flight MA660 Budapest-Amsterdam yesterday, operated with a B-737 by Hungarian Malev Airlines because of a suspicious fire, turned out to be just a false alarm. A Boeing 737/700 aircraft,... more
Press releaseStrikes by Italian FILT CGIL: aircraft, trains, buses and ferries stopped on June 25th
Rome, Italy - Pilots, flight and ground attendants in the airport stopped for four hours, from 10am to 2pm
"During the general strike organized by CGIL (one of the larger Italian labour unions) all the transports are going to be stopped on Friday June 25th. The manifestation was organized 'To protest versus... more
MiscellaneousAVIONEWS: our first ten years of activity
Rome, Italy - Global happenings of the sector in the last decade. People, technologies, events and history in the report of our news
Ten years are already passed since the first news published at the beginning of aeronautical and space press agency AVIONEWS activity. A large number of arguments were treated (airports, helicopters,... more
Science and technology"Cri-Cri", the all-electric aircraft in Le Bourget
Paris, France - During the "Green Aviation Show" from June 18-22
Innovation and eco-efficiency are the buzzwords at EADS. Following the flight of an aircraft powered by algae-based fuel, EADS is now tackling the new challenge of a zero-emission propellant. Partnered... more
Civil aviationMinister Matteoli: liberalization of airport services is basic condition for increasing mobility
Milan, Italy - Italy minister of Infrastructures speaks at ACI Europe convention
Minister Altero Matteoli hopes for liberalization of airport services, considering it the "Basic condition for increasing the mobility of European citizens". The statement issued to 400 operators at 2010... more
Finance and economyThe cost of the "Caste": in 2010 grows funding for State flights by 31.4%, but not the number of missions
Rome, Italy - And the same extent funds are reduced for worker trains
More money for the fund to State flights, which pass from 28 mln in 2009 to 36.8 mln in 2010, less for commuters: here, more or less, a fall in resources of some 30%. This from a release of data from... more
UAS-DronesGermany to decide EADS Talarion drone airplane Project Funding after budget OK
Berlin, Germany - Draft budget will be put to the cabinet July 7
The German government will make a decision about the funding for European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. Talarion unmanned aerial vehicle project after its 2011 draft budget has been finalized, a defense... more
DiscussionsAir transport of corpses: cultural traditions, burocreatic files, high prices
Rome, Italy - It could be a difficult moment, beside the sorrow for the lost
The strange happening that involves the transport of the corpse of Don Padovese offers the cue for a consideration. The apostolic vicar from Antolia, leader of Turkish Church, stubbed in Iskenderun, extreme... more
Weather forecastsBad weather in Italy: week-end with storms on the North and on the Middle
Rome, Italy - From tomorrow and for the next 24-36 hours
The break for bad weather on North of Italy has been short. A new perturbation will be present tomorrow, on Saturday June 19, on central Mediterranean basin, bringing conditions of strong fickleness still... more
OccurrencesEthiopian jet suffers fault in Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon - Plane was forced to return to Beirut airport 20 minutes after take-off
An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to return to Beirut airport 20 minutes after taking off on Thursday due to a technical failure, the second incident involving the airline in Lebanon this year. In... more
IndustryRR celebrates first run of Trent XWB engine
Rome, Italy - It's the latest member of the family
Rolls-Royce (RR), the global power systems company, has celebrated the first run of the Trent XWB, the latest member of its Trent® aero engine family. With more than 1,000 ordered, the new propulsion... more
AirlinesAlitalia will ask for public money? Again?
Rome, Italy - The accounts for 2010 do not improve: risk of using the national deposits and loans fund if the shareholders won't capitalize
Alitalia is at risk of recourse to Italian deposits and loans fund in 2011, but not before Ryanair snatching the crown of first passenger airline in Italy. Among many suitors for the favors of deposits... more
ReportFiumicino Airport: 125k Euro fines on fake taxi drivers
Rome, Italy - Foreign tourists preferred prey of illegal drivers: their rates twice the standard
Carabinieri of the Airports Company blitz on illegal taxi drivers in Fiumicino “Leonardo Da Vinci”. The harvest of the operation found 173 violations and 17 high road traffic contraventions, a total of... more
ReportAirplane with dozens of human skulls stopped in Arkansas
Little Rock, USA - The load was directed to a research center in Texas, but the authority investigates
A load of human body parts - 4 complete skulls and 40 parietal bones and sound blocks - discovered yesterday on board of a Southwest Airlines' airplane. The usual investigation procedure has started and... more
Science and technologySpanish minister at the Indra center of aeronautic simulation
San Fernando de Hena, Spain - Indra center announced a new contract with the Chinese company Hainan
Spain's Minister of Science and Innovation, Cristina Garmendia, was introduced on Thursday to the A-320 simulator during her visit to Indra’s Centre of Excellence of Aeronautics Simulation in San Fernando d... more
PeopleRutten re-elected ACI EUROPE President
Milan, Italy - For a second term
The Annual Assembly of European airport trade body ACI EUROPE took place in Milan yesterday, as part of the 20th ACI EUROPE Annual Assembly, Congress and Exhibition entitled “A 20 year vision of the a... more
AirportsBrussels Airport: three new destinations in Winter
Brussels, Belgium - Göteborg, Lappeenranta (Finland) and Verona
Brussels South Charleroi, the most accessible airport in Belgium, announces the opening of 3 new destinations for this winter: Göteborg, Lappeenranta (Finland) and Verona. These routes will be operational... more
IndustryAVIO: Genx engine makes its first flight on B-787 Dreamliner airplane
Turin, Italy - Italian company produces 12% of the technological advanced propellant
Italy has an important role in the engine for the Dreamliner airplane. Avio, the Italian Company, in aerospace propulsion, produces 12% of the GEnx engine, which carried out its first flight installed... more
UAS-DronesStarts the Sky-Y Unmanned Aerial System fourth flight campaign Alenia Aeronautica
Rome, Italy - At the Italian Air Force's air base in Sardinia
The Sky-Y, Alenia Aeronautica (AA)’s UAS (Unmanned Aerial System) technological demonstrator, has successfully accomplished - at the Italian Air Force’s air base in Decimomannu, Sardinia - its first fli... more
Civil aviationIATA: expected profits for the civil aviation sector
Montreal, Canada - The economic recovery seems more quickly than could have been anticipated
Three months after IATA said its members would post a USD 2.8 billion loss this year, the association is now forecasting a collective profit of USD 2.5 billion on revenues of USD 545 billion. “The g... more
Civil aviation"Best Airport Award 2010": announced winners
Milan, Italy - Four categories of air station
The 6th Annual ACI EUROPE Best Airport Awards were announced last night in Milan during the gala dinner of the 20th ACI EUROPE Annual Congress. It was the conclusion to a day of intensive exchanges and... more
AirlinesNew American Airlines' early boarding service
Forth Worth, Usa - It will allow passengers also to have a discount if they make change to their flights
According to the reports, American Airlines is going to be offering early boarding, for a charge. American Airlines ids hoping to increase its revenue by selling early boarding privileges to passengers. This... more
Civil aviationBlanco evaluates Aena's sale
Madrid, Spain - The Ministry of Development will propose shortly a project planning more private capital to the European Parliament
The Spanish Government seems to be open to evaluate operations regarding Aena's transfer to private capital, the company managing the Spain's airport and navigation network. "We are favorably disposed... more
AirportsViterbo will absorb Ciampino air traffic: green light to the realization
Rome, Italy - Lazio airport network is a priority, this is pointed out by the directive of the infrastructure minister sent to Riggio
The Italian Infrastructure Minister, Altero Matteoli, has given the go-ahead to the Viterbo airport: a ministerial directive addressed to the Enac (Italian Civil Aviation Authority) president Vito Riggio... more
OccurrencesUSA FAA launched an investigation into Alitalia-AirOne Boston-Rome flight 615 failure
Boston, USA - Safety inquiry focuses on engine that forced plane back to Logan last Tuesday
The Federal Aviation Administration turned over its investigation of Alitalia flight 615 to the National Transportation Safety Board because engine failure is “Quite unusual", said NTSB spokesman, Peter K... more
AirportsAVIONEWS interviews Ivan Maravigna, Soaco CEO of Comiso airport
Comiso, Italia - The signature of the agreement for the passage from the military property to the regional was expected for today but has been postponed to July
It has been delayed to July the 1st the protocol approval for the passage from the military to the civil jurisdiction for the area of "Magliocco" in Comiso. The signature was expected for today in the... more
Civil aviationJankovec (ACI Europe): "European airports have no choice but to offer competitive rates"
Milan , Italy - Business transformation and industry challenges from here to 2030
Difficult circumstances are testing all aviation industry stakeholders, they are also showing that airports in Europe have become businesses in their own right. This business transformation has allowed... more
IndustryEads-Eurocopter will produce biocombustible for airplanes and helicopters in Brazil
Munich, Germany - Signed agreement between European Group, its subsidiary and an Argentine society specialized in green combustible and oils
The creation of an aviation biofuel production facility in Brazil will be evaluated by EADS, Eurocopter and BioCombustibles del Chubut under terms of a cooperative agreement signed at this month’s "ILA B... more
SecurityAci Europe on the use of security scanners
Brussels, Belgium - It has welcomed to the EC communication
European airport trade Body ACI EUROPE welcomes the European Commission Communication to the Council and European Parliament on the use of security scanners at EU airports as an objective and balanced... more
ReportFlight attendant at aircraft's controls for the landing
Chicago, Usa - The co-pilot fell suddenly sick and was worthily
A flight attendant who has a pilot's license replaced an ill first officer during at O'Hare Chicago's International Airport this week. Officials said the co-pilot of an American Airlines plane that... more
Civil aviationCanadian air pilot's association ask for more security against terrorism
Ottawa , Canada - By a white paper addressed to the government
Canada's largest pilot group, Air Canada Pilots, realized a white paper on aviation security last days, commending the government for the progress it has made since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but at the... more
Civil aviationSwedish air pilots' strike: 25 thousands persons on the ground
Oslo, Sweden - Industrial action's reason was the hiring politics
The Swedish pilots' strike called yesterday, Wednesday 16th of June, by Swedish air transport industry employers association caused delete of about 500 flights. According to the reports, about 25 thousands... more
HelicoptersTurkey demand quickly for nine new attack helicopters from AgustaWestland
Paris, France - There is a large chance that they are going to be used against PKK
Turkey will start soon the purchase negotiations of 9 attack helicopters T-129, these machines designed and built by the Italian-English group AgustaWestland are going to be added to its fleet. The... more
IndustryBoeing completes first flight of GE-powered 787 airplane
Washington, Usa - For a 3 hour and 48 minute flight
The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner with General Electric (GE) engines, the airplane referred to as ZA005, completed its first flight at 6:29 p.m. (Pacific time) yesterday, following a 3-hour-and-48-minute... more
Civil aviationAirport Carbon Accreditation celebrates one year since launch
Milan, Italy - Cumulative CO2 reductions of over 400,000 tonnes
At its 20th Annual Congress in Milan this week, European airport trade body ACI EUROPE marked the one year anniversary of the launch of Airport Carbon Accreditation, giving an update on the programme. The... more
Civil aviationAir transport in Italy: here the announced strikes
Rome, Italy - The complete calendar
The calendar of the strike for the air transport during the summer period until July Friday 9th have been announced. The complete list of the manifestations, susceptible to be withdraw, follows: 07/06... more
AirportsRyanair to leave Brescia and aims for Verona
Brescia, Italy - Montichiari at risk to become a "Cargo only" airport
Brescia airport surrounded by the sound of tumbleweeds, more and more every day passing. Ryanair also goes away, aiming to do the best synergy with its routes on Verona. On this side there is the internal... more
Civil aviationACI Europe: economic outlook of air traffic
Milan, Italy - Lost 100 million passengers in 2009, nearly €300 million due to volcano
After losing 100 million passengers in 2009, European airports have been heavily affected by the volcanic ash crisis. Passenger traffic had started to steadily recover with +5.2% growth over the first... more
AirportsMalpensa: in June 2010 +12% passengers
Milan, Italy - Bonomi: "Without volcano we would have had +10% with respect to the previous year"
Golden hypothesis: if there was not eruption in Iceland, Malpensa would have had a growth in the passenger number of about 10% on annual basis and of about 40% on cargo. These are the last estimations... more
Airlines50 years of Thai Airways
Copenhagen, Denmark - Birthday party yesterday at Copenhagen airport
Thai Airways celebrated on 16 June the airline's 50th birthday with a party in Copenhagen for 230 travel agents. Its first destination in Europe was Copenhagen – a route which was opened in 1972. Today, t... more