Avia Prime, one of the leading aviation MROs in Europe consisting of three prominent companies, including Serbian subsidiary Jat Tehnika, successfully completed the first conversion of a Boeing 767-300 aircraft from passenger to cargo in Europe in collaboration with Israeli Aerospace Industries. The first converted aircraft with registration number 9H-CAC took off from Belgrade Airport [...]
The United States (US) Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) latest Airworthiness Directive (AD) aims to address fuselage cracks on the aft side of the bulkhead of the Boeing 747-8. According to the FAA, it received a report about cracks that formed on a Boeing 747-8’s “stringers, common to the end fittings, at stringer location S–42L/R and [...]
The United States (US) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to fix a software bug on Boeing 737 NextGeneration (NG) aircraft that has resulted in display unit (DU) blanking on approaches to certain runways. The FAA is superseding an Airworthiness Directive (AD), published in 2019, which required operators not [...]
A pilot and passenger were hospitalized after a dramatic crash on a street in Lagos, Nigeria, saw the plane burst into flames on impact. The incident happened on August 1, 2023, in the Ikeja area of Lagos at around 3pm local time when the vicinity was busy with traffic. Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) confirmed [...]
Spirit AeroSystems, a Tier 1 supplier for Airbus and Boeing, which also provides fuselages for the Boeing 737 program, said that it has reworked all vertical fittings for the 737s at its facilities. The company’s president and chief executive officer (CEO) Tom Gentile said that the company had “resolved all rework related to the vertical [...]
Fast-expanding SF Airlines has added a second freighter service from Ezhou Huahu Airport to Europe as the carrier continues to ramp up operations from the recently opened hub. The twice-weekly service will operate to Frankfurt using a Boeing 747-400 freighter and joins SF Airlines’ first European service from Ezhou, which calls at Liege. SF Airlines [...]
Polar Air Cargo’s efforts to dismiss a fraud lawsuit brought by freight forwarder Cargo On Demand (COD) have been successful. The civil Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit was filed late last year in the Southern District of New York Court. And in April, 10 individuals were charged with defrauding the airline. These [...]
The 2023 Travvy Awards are here! And voting has officially opened. Here are this year’s nominees for Best Destination (overall) and Best Culinary Destination which will be announced at the Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Convention Center on November 2. Best City Destination – Domestic Las Vegas Greater Miami and Miami Beach New Orleans New [...]
