Eve has already formed relationships with dozens of companies and other entities in the urban air mobility (UAM) space, including fleet operators, ride-sharing partners, vertiport developers, and tech firms. Eve has also secured conditional orders from 17 customers so far — for 1,735 vehicles valued at approximately US$5 billion. However, details on the aircraft itself ...
The use of future autonomous air vehicles, such as drones and eVTOL air taxis, sometimes called Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), will only be possible if beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS)-operational capability is developed and demonstrated as safe to aviation authorities. A fundamental part of BLVOS-operations is autonomous detect and avoid (D&A) technology. D&A technolo...
Rogerson thinks the idea to serve communities directly will gain a market following as more local communities take aerial firefighting into their own hands, as the fire danger becomes more acute. Like now, for instance. This year is shaping up to be one of the worst U.S. wildfire seasons on record. By early June, nearly two million acres had already burned, nearly trip...
Through its new Announcement for Partnership Proposals, NASA intends to fund one or more awards to design, build, test, and fly a large-scale demonstrator with an advanced airframe configuration, as well as related technologies. The agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project aims to reduce carbon emissions from aviation and ensure U.S. competitiveness in a hi...
“These new orders demonstrate the strong confidence in Airbus from our customers. It is also a solid endorsement from our airline customers in China of the performance, quality, fuel efficiency, and sustainability of the world's leading family of single-aisle aircraft,” said Airbus chief commercial officer Christian Scherer. “We commend the excellent work by George Xu an...
Modular, compact, lightweight, and requiring no refrigerant, SpaceChiller’s “breakthrough” heat exchange technology is well suited for use in aircraft cabins, “particularly for smaller aircraft,” said Brian St. Rock, the engineering director for Collins interiors’ advanced technology organization. SpaceChiller can provide “compact and convenient chilling capacity to area...
Like many airlines, the German national carrier sent its superjumbo A380s into storage during the Covid-19 pandemic and hinted that they were unlikely to be reactivated as the travel industry reeled from low demand. Other airlines did, however, bring their A380s back into use as demand soared. Now, it appears Lufthansa is to follow by reactivating some of its 14-strong...
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet, which is being developed with Lockheed Martin, moved one step closer to flight last week after undergoing wind-tunnel tests. Nicknamed “Son of Concorde” after the Concorde commercial jet launched in the late 1960s, this new generation is called QueSST—or Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft. It’s designed to minimize sonic booms, which NASA no...
Under an agreement signed on February 6 at Joby’s California headquarters, the companies said they will collaborate on work based on the Korean Urban Air Mobility (K-UAM) roadmap announced by the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport in 2020. Joby intends to start commercial operations with its unnamed four-passenger eVTOL aircraft in 2024. It say...
The flight, which departed Charles de Gaulle in Paris and arrived at AlUla International Airport, marked the start of a weekly non-stop service between the two destinations. Running until March 27, 2022, the flight is operated by a SAUDIA Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Guests on board the inaugural flights attended equestrian events in AlUla as part of the destination’s annual...
According to data from IATA, cargo demand was up 7% compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, the second biggest increase since 1990. The industry association forecasts another good year for air freight demand in 2022, with economic drivers remaining strong and capacity still affected by the lack of belly space in aircraft. The two big aerospace manufacturers, Airbus an...
NUAIR, or the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance, Inc, operates one of seven FAA-designated unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites in the U.S. The new agreement with Sagetech, said NUAIR CEO Ken Stewart, aims to solve the problem of safely integrating unmanned aircraft into the national airspace.” We don’t really have systems that operate under 400 ...
“The new Challenger 3500 aircraft stands for the ultimate cabin experience, to which we will be making a significant contribution… Building on our many years of know-how and our innovative strength with regard to complex, high-quality interior systems, our teams of FACC experts have joined forces to create a completely new business travel experience,” stated Robert Macht...
The group is not just talking confidently – it is investing in that confidence, adding more than 200 new employees to the workforce at its Upper Austrian facilities, with a focus of the newly production, IT, digitalisation, innovation management and automation. FACC is also launching an investment initiative worth a total of EUR 150 million (US$170m) over the next five ...
The award-winning connectivity solution, provided by Inmarsat and Deutsche Telekom, will give Aegean passengers access to three Wi-Fi packages, including a ‘try before you buy’ service. In a statement, Inmarsat said its broadband solution offers “incomparable speeds, uninterrupted coverage across Europe and significantly lower latency than any other aviation connectivit...
The new app has been optimised with a sleek design, allowing passengers to book and manage aspects of their trip on their mobile devices. Passengers can now rely on push notifications in case of changes in the flight schedule, real-time information about the status of their baggage from the drop-off to pick-up, as well as access to the Austrian Melangerie offer, eJourna...
With a US$990 million investment from the Chilean Ministry of Public Works (MOP), the airport converted the original airport into a renovated domestic terminal with a new 17,300 sqm pier for additional capacity, and created a new 214,000 sqm T2 building dedicated to international and regional flights. Both terminals are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to minim...
Breeze plans to have 15 A220-300s in service by the end of 2022 which will be used primarily for longer-haul flights, including transcontinental service. The carrier, which began service in May 2021 with an all-Embraer fleet, has agreed to purchase 80 A220-300s, with one aircraft scheduled to be delivered each month for the next six and a half years. Breeze’s A220-300 a...
Aimed at creating a more stress-free and inclusive travel experience for these passengers, the initiatives include a customisable step-by-step airport guide, invisible disabilities lanyards, as well as having frontline staff trained to effectively support passengers with invisible disabilities on their airport journey. The airport has developed the Changi Airport Social...
The facility is located in the SkyCourt and covers an area of nearly 107 sqm. The 40-seat lounge offers a wide range of services, including special magazines, on-screen entertainment, and great Hungarian cuisine, alongside an international gastronomic offering. This is the eighth lounge to open for passengers at Budapest, but Plaza Premium is the first international com...
Nicholas, as we introduce the next generation of advanced mobility in the air, we also need to address the need to keep the airspace at our airports safe from unintentional or the malicious use of unmanned systems or smaller drones. NR: That is correct. Airports need to have access to resources and information on the prevention of unauthorized drone and unmanned aircraft...
The aim of ICAO’s GRF is to standardize reporting globally, in the hope of reducing the 25% of all aircraft accidents that come as a result of runway excursions. Although winter weather gets a lot of attention for changing runway conditions; globally, rain is the most frequent cause of a change in runway condition. And within that, standing water is more common than exp...
The proposed new regulatory framework is open to public consultation until September 30, 2022, and cover the technical domains of airworthiness, air operations, flight crew licensing and rules of the air. They complement existing EU regulatory material for operations of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), the unmanned traffic management system known in Europe as U-space a...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has welcomed the creation by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) of a global directory of public keys required for authentication of health credentials. The directory, called the Health Master List (HML), will make a significant contribution to the global recognition and verification (interoperability) o...
Thus, UIA will be the first and currently the only airline in Ukraine to start flights on this route. Flights between Kyiv and Oslo will be operated on a medium-haul Embraer 190 aircraft in a three-classes of service: business, economy premium-economy. Air services on this northern route are scheduled for June 1, 2022. Flights will be operated three times a week – on We...
From this month onward, Stellar will supply Thailand’s national carrier with a range of in-flight entertainment (IFE) services, including account management; strategic curation and licensing of all film, television and audio content; production services; technical services; and content delivery. “To fulfil Thai’s vision to be a high-quality full service carrier with a...
On January 18th, Electra.aero announced that it received an important injection of cash from Lockheed Martin Ventures (LMV) as part of its Series A funding round. As one of the pioneer developers of hybrid-electric ultra-short takeoff and landing (electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft, this funding speaks to the commitment that stakeholders are making to El...
The total is even more impressive as it shattered its previous record of 2.3 million tons, set the previous year, by 17%. International freight grew by 17% to 2.2 million tons, while domestic freight rose 15% to 500,000 tons. MIA continues to rank as the busiest airport in the US and ninth busiest in the world for international freight. MIA’s director and CEO, Ralph Cu...
Almaty Airport is under new ownership after global airport operator, TAV Airports, completed its acquisition of an 85% stake in the Kazakhstan gateway earlier this year. The deal is expected to take the gateway to the next level in terms of its facilities, growth potential and ambition to become the undisputed leading hub for Central Asia. A record 6.4 million passenge...
The 485,000-sq-ft facility on Florida’s Treasure Coast employs about 400 people and specializes in manufacturing large, complex metallic structures such as wing and fuselage assemblies. "This acquisition is perfectly aligned with Daher’s ‘Succeed Together’ strategic plan, including the goal of significantly developing our North American activities across all of the comp...
An X-plane project under the direction of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), Liberty Lifter will be designed to operate at sea for weeks at a time, capable of both water and traditional runway landings. When traversing long distances across water, the seaplane will seek to exploit the ground effect, flying just a few metres above the sea’s surface to redu...
A Polish aerospace company, Metal Master, is currently developing the only non-American manufactured single-engine Very Light Jet (VLJ). Metal Master states the goal was to produce the Flaris LAR01 (sometimes referred to as the LAR-1) as an affordable short-haul jet aircraft for corporate and private owners who desire to move up, down or sideways from their current pisto...
The fifth generation of eVTOL aircraft demonstrator, called PHX2 has arrived at the ATLAS (Air Traffic Laboratory for Advanced Systems) Flight Test Center in Villacarrillo to conduct its high-speed testing flight testing campaign over longer distances, in a way not possible at its site in Germany. The PHX2 eVOTL aircraft carries five passengers, has a range 250km (155 m...
Skyports has proposed setting up its service and training facility at Argyll and Bute Council-owned Oban Airport. It has received £170,000 from the UK government towards the project. Last year, Skyports used drones to fly Covid-19 samples and test kits to and from some parts of Argyll in what was described as a UK first. Renewable energy developers are among those pot...
The airport used the pandemic forced closure of the departures area bar to carry out extensive renovations, and according to the gateway, the first passengers to experience the new look have been overwhelmingly positive about the revamp. Arguably, the highlight of the makeover is a large room divider with six high tables and an illuminated mountain silhouette designed t...
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