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Alaska Airlines (AS), based at Seattle Tacoma International, reached a significant milestone with the delivery of its inaugural Boeing 737-8 aircraft, N801AK (msn 67802), on December 27, 2023. The carrier's fleet expansion took a tangible step forward as the new aircraft completed a brief ferry flight from Seattle Boeing Field to Oakland on the same [...]
Sri Lanka's State Enterprises Restructuring Unit (SRU) has extended the deadline for the submission of Request For Qualification (RFQ) applications from interested parties for the partial privatisation of SriLankan Airlines (UL). Originally set for December 5, 2023, the deadline has been pushed to January 9, 2024, following requests from potential bidders for additional time. Key [...]
Evgeny Elin, Chairman of the Board of Directors at S7 Group, has raised concerns about the limited service life of the PD-14 turbofan engines for Irkut-manufactured MC-21-300 narrowbody aircraft. Speaking at the Russian Industrialist Forum, Elin highlighted that the PD-14 engines have only 3,600 flight hours between overhauls, significantly shorter than the 40,000 hours typical [...]
United Airlines has suspended one of its pilots, Ibrahim R. Mossallam, after he posted on social media, praising the actions of Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attacks on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and took around 240 hostage. Mossallam, who is also a board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), called the [...]
As the race to dominate the single-aisle jet market intensifies, Boeing and Airbus are at a pivotal crossroad. The successors to their iconic 737 and A320 families, the 797 and A322 respectively, are anticipated with bated breath. However, designing these next-generation aircraft is no straightforward task, and both aviation behemoths are grappling with significant challenges. [...]
Boeing will develop and test technologies for a hypersonic interceptor prototype for DARPA’s Glide Breaker program as part of a four-year effort. Boeing will perform computational fluid dynamics analysis, wind tunnel testing and evaluation of aerodynamic jet interaction effects during flight tests. “Hypersonic vehicles are among the most dangerous and rapidly evolving threats facing national [...]
Indonesia-based freighter operator Raindo United Services has gained its air operator certificate (AOC) and is hoping to launch operations in the coming months. The airline said this week that it had been awarded the AOC by the directorate general of civil aviation and the director of airworthiness and aircraft operation of the ministry of transportation. [...]
Boeing is planning to replace the 737, its best-selling narrowbody aircraft, with a new design in the future. However, the exact timeline and specifications of the 737 replacement are not yet clear, as Boeing is facing several challenges and uncertainties in the market. The Covid epidemic changed the air transport landscape drastically. Small jets are [...]
Sonesta, the 8th largest hotel company in the US, today announced that it added 13 hotels to the company’s global portfolio during the first six months of 2023. The new hotels, with a total of more than 1,000 rooms, include (in order of opening): Sonesta Nouba – Aswan Egypt Americas Best Value Inn Laurel – [...]
An influx of staff delivering exceptional customer service is driving a rise in hotel guest satisfaction as travel returns to pre-pandemic levels, according to J.D. Power's annual North America Hotel Guest Satisfaction Index (NAGSI) Study. Redesigned for 2023, the study measures overall customer satisfaction based on performance across six factors, including communications and connectivity; food [...]
