Category: Airlines

Airbus issues statement on BEA AF447 findings
Airlines

Airbus has released a statement supporting the French Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA’s) preliminary findings into the crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed all 228 passengers and crew onboard in 2009. “The preliminary information released by the BEA today is consistent with facts published in the BEA preliminary and interim reports,” the statement read.

Virgin Australia A330 makes inaugural flight
Airlines

Virgin Australia has launched its A330 services, with the first flight taking off from Sydney for Perth on May 26, with paying passengers and media onboard, and returning that evening. The A330, VH-XFB Cable Beach, features Virgin Australia’s new Hans Hulsbosch designed economy and business class cabins which form part of the airline’s extensive rebranding

Pilot error may have been cause of Air France crash – BEA
Airlines

The tragic 2009 crash of doomed Air France Flight 447 has been attributed to pilot error, preliminary reports by French investigators of the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) have supposedly revealed. According to numerous online reports that have circled in the last week, sources close to the investigation say the Airbus A330’s autopilot disengaged after

ANA conducts 787 trials with Boeing
Airlines

Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) will partner with Boeing to begin preparing for commercial operations with their 787 Dreamliner fleet, with the start of simulated in-service flights across several airports in Japan for service ready operational validation (SROV) on the aircraft later this year. The week long SROV process will see the 787 make its first

Korean takes delivery of first A380
Airlines

Korean Air has celebrated the delivery of its first Airbus A380 at a ceremony in Toulouse, France, becoming the sixth operator of the aircraft since it was introduced in 2007. The ceremony was attended by Korean Air chairman and CEO Yang Ho Cho, Airbus president and CEO Tom Enders and EADS CEO Louis Gallois. “The

Cabin crew ratios discussed at public hearing
Airlines

The Federal House of Representatives Infrastructure and Communications Committee has held a public hearing to discuss the ratio of cabin crew to passengers on domestic flights, as part of an official inquiry into the matter. The committee is considering a proposal by CASA that would amend current regulations which stipulate that operators of Australian domestic aircraft carrying

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