Major milestones for AirSprint

Welcome

Taken on January 3, this image shows the

Bird strike damages Transavia’s newest bird

(Photo Airbus) A BIRD strike has damaged the

First Airbus for Lufthansa City Airlines

(Photo Lufthansa Group) LUFTHANSA’S NEWEST subsidiary, City Airlines

Airbus secures easyJet order

(Photo Airbus/Hervé Goussé/ Master Films) AFTER RECEIVING shareholder

Cargo collaboration scrapped

(Photo CMA CGM) AIR FRANCE-KLM GROUP has shelved

Wizz Air to pay out £1.2m over flight disruption

(Photo Wizz Air) WIZZ AIR is to pay

in brief

(Photo Airbus) Lisbon-based TAP Air Portugal has announced

SAS steps closer to SkyTeam with Atlanta announcement

(Photo Airbus/Master Films/ Frédéric Lancelot) SAS HAS added

Aeroitalia lands in Southend

(Photo Aeroitalia) ROME-BASED AEROITALIA is launching a six

AirBaltic teams up with SWISS

(Photo airBaltic) AIRBALTIC HAS announced a new codeshare

Red Wings Tu-214 restoration

(Photo Red Wings) MOSCOW-BASED RED Wings Airlines has

Air Samarkand takes flight

(Photo Air Samarkand) NEW UZBEKISTAN carrier Air Samarkand

Capacity increase for MC-21

(Photo UAC) RUSSIA’S FEDERAL Air Transport Agency has

Ethiopian bags new Boeings

(Photo Ethiopian Airlines) ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES has announced a

Hi Fly helps out in Kenya

KENYA AIRWAYS signed a short-term lease agreement with

Turkish delight at Airbus order

(Photo Airbus) TURKISH AIRLINES placed a large order

AirExplore-ing in the Congo

MARIO CARUANA/MAVIO NEWS Kinshasa-based Congo Airways has added

Winning Wizz Air

LOW-COST AIRLINE Wizz Air Abu Dhabi managed to

Flynas eyes aircraft order

(Photo Airbus/Alexandre Doumenjou) SAUDI ARABIAN low-cost airline flynas

in brief

Qatar Airways is set to resume flights to

MAX grounding chaos

(Photo Alaska Airlines) HUNDREDS OF flights have been

Spirit takeover blocked

(Photo Spirit Airlines) JETBLUE’S BID to buy rival

Delta adds A350-1000s

(Photo Airbus) DELTA AIR Lines has ordered 20

Fresh woes for New Pacific

(Photo New Pacific Airlines) ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-BASED New Pacific

in brief

(Photo Air Canada) LATAM Airlines Group has placed

Akasa boost for Boeing

(Photo Boeing) INDIA’S AKASA Air has placed an

Indonesia lifts 737 MAX 9 ban

FOLLOWING THE global grounding of 171 Boeing 737

AirAsia and AirAsiaX merger

(Photo AirAsia X) AIRASIA X will merge with

Airbus for EVA

(Photo Airbus) TAIWAN’S EVA Air has confirmed an

Virgin Australia announces new Link-up

(Photo Link Airways) VIRGIN AUSTRALIA has signed a

in brief

(Photo Air India) After an 18-year hiatus, Australian

Airbus beats Boeing… again

FOR THE fifth year in a row, Airbus

All-action at ATR

(Photo ATR) FRANCO-ITALIAN AIRCRAFT manufacturer ATR has had

First delivery from ex-A380 assembly line

(Photo Airbus) AIRBUS HAS successfully delivered its first

Air travel recovery at 99%

PASSENGER AIR travel demand for the world’s airlines

FAA ramps up Boeing oversight

(Photo Boeing) AFTER GROUNDING 171 Boeing 737 MAX

MJets receives Gulfstream G550

THAILAND'S MJETS announced on December 20, 2023 that

Bombardier bags Challenger 3500 order

(Photo Bombardier) BOMBARDIER ANNOUNCED on December 22, 2023,

Sky View

Insights and opinions on the industry’s hottest topics

New owners for Edinburgh?

(Photo Edinburgh Airport) SCOTLAND’S BUSIEST airport – Edinburgh,

All change at Abha

(Photo Foster + Partners) THE SAUDI Arabian government

Capacity u-turn for Amsterdam

(Photo Amsterdam/Schiphol Airport) AMSTERDAM/SCHIPHOL AIRPORT has announced an

Airliner Deliveries

The latest commercial aircraft deliveries from manufacturers and lessors

Lufthansa Technik's first A330neo for Cebu Pacific

The latest news from maintenance, repair and overhaul providers

StandardAero inducts first LEAP engine

StandardAero has inducted its first customer CFM LEAP

Vietnam Airlines selects Skywise

Airbus announced on November 28, 2023, that Vietnam

OnFlight gains Embraer approval

On Flight, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, has received

Singapore Airlines acquires Subang facility

Singapore Airlines Engineering Company (SIAEC) announced the lease

Pilatus to acquire Epps Aviation

The latest news from maintenance, repair and overhaul providers

Letters to the editor

Dear Editor, I've been an ‘old aircraft nut’

Hamburg’s third airport?

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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

ATP adds additional Skyhawks

The latest training aids available for the aviation professional

Skyborne seeks instructors

UK flight school Skyborne Airline Academy is recruiting

EasyJet reopens ‘Runway’

Low-cost airline easyJet reopened its ‘Runway’ university graduate

Wind shear to blame for TUI go-around incident

Reports and details of recent incidents

Fully fledged freighter

After a near 15 year career flying for Emirates, this Boeing 777-300ER has swapped seats and suites for freight to become the first example of what’s now been dubbed The Big Twin. Dirk Grothe provides a first look for Airliner World

Forty years of SEVENAIR

Stewart Marshall heads to Portugal for a unique experience onboard a Sevenair Dornier 228

MIAT

Mongolian Airlines may be a minnow compared with the behemoth flag carriers of neighbouring Russia and China, but the carrier has major plans. Tom Batchelor talks to Batdari Namkhaijantsan to learn more

Shanghai CALLING

In the second of two parts, Peter Apsey takes us sightseeing at Shanghai/Pudong

FATAL FLAW

A two-year-old aircraft with a design flaw that the manufacturer was aware of led to the death of 346 people when a Turkish Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashed just outside of Paris 50 years ago. To mark the anniversary, Stephen Skinner looks back at what was then the world’s worst aviation accident

CAT HAY'S COMEBACK

Cathay Pacific was hit hard by the pandemic and has endured a delayed recovery. Tom Batchelor looks at how the Hong Kong-based airline is bouncing back

Amphibious ambitions

Elfly in Norway is developing an electric- +powered, multi-role amphibian called Noemi to serve remote communities. Ian Harbison spoke to CEO Eric Lithun about the project

TO INFINITY AND BEOND

The world’s first all-premium leisure airline Beond offers longhaul flights to the Maldives on an Airbus A319. After trying out the carrier’s unique service for himself, Andreas Spaeth, sat down with Sascha Feuerherd, the start-up’s chief commercial officer, to find out about his strategy to succeed where many others have failed

A new era for Emirates

President Sir Tim Clark reveals his airline’s future plans, including the vision for life beyond the A380 and a move to a new Dubai base, in an exclusive interview with

Dubai's Phoenix Rising

Emirates may be on the brink of a wholesale fleet renewal programme, but that hasn’t stopped the airline embarking on a billion-dollar cabin upgrade for its legacy A380s and 777s. delves inside the Phoenix Project

Emirates eye-catchers eye-catchers

Over the years, Emirates has adorned its aircraft with some eye-catching colour schemes. Here we take a look at some of our favourites