Month: December 2019

Embraer’s E175-E2 has successfully completed its first flight in São José dos Campos, Brazil, on Friday. The maiden flight took of at 11:07 am local time and lasted for more than two hours. … [read more]

Last month, Boeing’s 2019 ‘ecoDemonstrator’ aircraft, a 777-200, visited Frankfurt Airport in Germany, making it its first tour outside the United States. Under the so called ecoDemonstrator program, Boeing is working with … [read more]

Taiwanese carrier Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) has suspended ticket sales and will cease operations on Friday. Following initial media reports citing internal documents, the airline has since publicly confirmed this action … [read more]

Air France-KLM and Airbus have announced that the French flag-carrier will receive an additional ten Airbus A350-900 aircraft. With the addition of the new firm order, Air France ordered a total of … [read more]

Chilean low-cost carrier SKY Airline has signed a purchase agreement with Airbus for ten A321XLR. While no delivery time frame has been announced, the new aircraft are likely to join the airline’s … [read more]

Indonesian flag-carrier Garuda Indonesia has sacked its Chief Executive Officer I Gusti Ngurah Askhara Danadiputra (Ari Askhara) and other directors over a motorbike that was allegedly smuggled on board an aircraft. Reuters … [read more]

Hong Kong’s Air Transport Licensing Authority (ATLA) will not take action against financially struggling Hong Kong Airlines (HKA). In a release published on Saturday, the government agency says it held a meeting with … [read more]

Colombian airline Avianca has celebrated its 100th anniversary on Thursday, December 5th. It is the second airline after Dutch flag-carrier KLM to operate for 100 years. Back in 1919, a group of … [read more]