First flight for Virgin A330neo

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Cleared to land: British Airways Boeing 787-8, G-ZBJH

Danish Dornier’s Docklands return

(Photo SUN-AIR) A BRITISH Airways partner has confirmed

MAG reports summer stats

ONE OF the UK’s biggest airport operators has

Wizz Welsh winter wind-down

LOW-COST GIANT Wizz Air has confirmed it will

Norse bolsters Berlin base

NORSE ATLANTIC Airways has celebrated inaugural flights from

Slam dunk for Aegean

AIRTEAMIMAGES.COM/ALEX FILIPPOPOULOS Pictured after dark at Athens

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Icelandic low-cost carrier PLAY has reported strong passenger

Air Astana recovery continues

(Photo Air Astana) KAZAKH FLAG carrier Air Astana

More Dreamliners for Azerbaijan

AZERBAIJAN AIRLINES has outlined plans to acquire a

Wizz Air delays Russian return

(Photo Wizz Air Abu Dhabi) WIZZ AIR Abu

Nigerian newcomer in Essex

SIMON MURDOCH Southend Airport welcomed an exotic visitor

Africa-bound A350-1000

(Photo Airbus) THE FLAG carrier of Ethiopia is

Long-haul link by longrange narrowbody

LOW-COST CARRIER Air Arabia has confirmed it will launch

Anniversary Airbuses sighted

BART LEKEU Eagle-eyed planespotters should keep an eye

People power celebrated

V1IMAGES.COM/MAREK HORÁK This eye-catching Qatar Airways Cargo

Major cabin overhaul for Emirates

EMIRATES HAS unveiled the blueprints for an ambitious

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Premium and qualifying customers from Airlink on both

Supersonic future for American?

BOOM SUPERSONIC A MAJOR US carrier could acquire

Paint job perfection

ABX Air showed off its new livery at

JetBlue makes transatlantic waves

JETBLUE AIRWAYS has kicked off a surge in transatlantic

The animal’s new DEN

FRONTIER AIRLINES and Denver International Airport have broken

Charlotte spins new web

THE LATEST stage of Charlotte Douglas International Airport’s

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The LATAM Group has published its financial results

Star ATR breaks cover

The first aircraft for Bangladesh-based start-up Air Astra

Blueprints revealed for widebody modernisation

(Photo Airbus) MALAYSIA AIRLINES is set to acquire

Akasa Air gets airborne

(Photo Joe G Walker) THE COMPETITIVE Indian aviation

Dual-liveried 777F delivered

CELEBRATIONS WERE held at Singapore/Changi after the first

Three-door deboarding

(Photo V1Images.com/ Aneesh Bapaye) INDIGO HAS introduced a

in brief

Citing the “sheer demand for flights”, Air New

Electric Revolution at Harbour Air

HARBOUR AIR has successfully completed its first all-electric pointto-point

Airbus Deliveries

Airbus A321neo CC-AWT (c/n 10965) was handed over

Russia plans domestic ramp-up

RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS could supply domestic airlines and operators

BOC writes off Russian assets

Korean Air took delivery of Boeing 737 MAX

Dreamliner deliveries resume

BOEING HAS handed over its first 787 Dreamliners in

G650 certified for steep approach

(Photo Gulfstream) GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE’S G650 and G650ER aircraft

Embraer reports biz jet backlog

EMBRAER’S RESULTS for the second quarter of 2022

Challenger 3500 charter operator revealed

(Photo Bombardier) ITALIAN AIRCRAFT management company Air Corporate

Airbus confirms American recovery

AIRBUS CORPORATE Jets (ACJ) has said the number

Aussies eye more A321P2Fs

QANTAS FREIGHT is set to boost its narrowbody inventory

Heathrow cargo boost

WORLDWIDE FLIGHT Services (WFS) has increased its facility

Etihad seals cargo deal

THE NATIONAL carrier of the United Arab Emirates

PREMIUM space race

In this month’s numbercrunching insight, James Mellon, senior aviation data research analyst at Cirium, ponders the continued rise of premium economy class

Airliner Deliveries

The latest commercial aircraft deliveries from manufacturers and

AJW extends Air Transat contract

The latest news from maintenance, repair and overhaul providers

Boeing confirms GAMECO deal

BOEING AND the Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company

South American boost for StandardAero

BELO HORIZONTE’S Regional Turbine Centre (RTC) has received

Turkish Airlines confirms component support

A MAINTENANCE by the hour (MBH) contract has

Embraer signs service agreements

(Photo Embraer) BRAZILIAN MANUFACTURER Embraer has announced service

Hutchinson selects Asia-Pacific repair station

(Image SCS) SINGAPORE COMPONENT Services (SCS) has confirmed

Letters to the Editor

Information for the traveller. Dear Editor, I

UK Visitors

We present a selection of images of visiting aircraft from airports around the UK. For the most part, they’re commercial jets, but almost all of them are unusual types, wearing new or unique liveries or first visits by an airline or airliner to a particular airport. If you see something out of the ordinary while on your travels, please send in your pictures. Photos can be emailed to: airlinerworld@keypublishing.com Please ensure you provide full details with the images, particularly the date, location, airline name and aircraft identity.

Oz training centre confirmed

The latest training aids available for the aviation

Streamlined transition offered

A HIRING partnership between ATP Flight School and

Pilot pathway partnership

SKYBORNE AIRLINE Academy has been chosen as a

TUI tail-strike after “disjointed” training

The aircraft involved in the incident, pictured at

spirit FINDS NEW FRONTIER

Being billed as one of the last of the US mega-mergers, JetBlue and Spirit are to combine in a multi-billion dollar agreement. Chris Sloan reviews the deal

FIGHTING TO BE HEARD

Fighting to Be Heard by Brian Wiklem is a love letter to the last commercial airliner built in the UK: the British Aerospace 146. Airliner World presents an extract from this new book

READY, STEADY, OSLO!

Matteo Legnani travels to the Norwegian capital to learn more about the continuing evolution of the country’s most important airport

THE RACE to Net Zero

Low-fare carrier easyJet believes hydrogen is the key to greener flying. Chief operating officer David Morgan talks to Richard Schuurman about the airline’s bold sustainability plans

Reaching for the STARS

NASA’s SOFIA airborne laboratory is set to retire more than a decade earlier than originally planned. In the first of a two-part feature, Bernd Sturm shines the spotlight on this unique aircraft and explores its unrivalled capabilities

RETIRING IN STYLE

What better way for a business to make a statement than by parking a classic Boeing jet on its front lawn. Dirk Grothe travelled to Denmark to visit a company that has done exactly that.

Baltic bounce-back

Despite headwinds from the war in Ukraine and airspace closures over neighbouring Belarus, Lithuania’s airports are emerging from the pandemic in remarkably robust shape, as Tom Batchelor and Gordon Smith discover

THE RIGHT TIM; THE RIGHT PLACE

As Emirates president Sir Tim Clark prepares to retire from his full-time role, he sits down with Andreas Spaeth to reflect on a fascinating 50 years in the airline business

SIR TIM’S FANTASTIC FLEET

While Emirates is known today for its all-widebody roster of Boeing 777s and Airbus A380s, this wasn’t always the case. We delve into the archives to celebrate some of the now-retired models which helped shape the Dubai-based carrier

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