Reading Time: 2 minutes As Brussels Airport in Zaventem, Belgium, remains closed following the March 22 deadly terrorist attacks, Brussels Airlines says the airport closure is costing it €5 million ($5.6 million) a day. This is putting Brussels Airlines in its deepest crises since it was established in 2002, spokesperson Wencke Lemmes told ATW in Brussels. “Our first priority […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute French air traffic controllers (ATC) plan to strike for at least 36 hours, starting from Wednesday evening, Airlines for Europe (A4E) lobby group said in a statement. A4E said this will be the 43rd strike day in France since 2009, resulting in the cancellation of hundreds of flights and creating disruption and extensive delays across […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s a time-honored aviation tradition that suddenly appears on the brink of elimination. New student pilot application requirements that take effect on April 1 will prevent new pilots from soloing on their 16th birthday. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is asking the FAA to remedy what it calls an “unfortunate consequence” of the new […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Russian officials have announced they may suspend the Boeing 737’s airworthiness certificates. A recent report by Sputnik suggests the Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsiya) may ban Russian airlines from flying Boeing Co’s (NYSE:BA) 737 aircraft, owing to safety concerns. An appeal to cancel the Boeing 737’s flying certificate was sent by Russian Civic […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The global aviation training provider, BAA Training, in cooperation with Ukraine International Airlines is inviting Ukrainian pilots to attend pilot assessment procedures. Applicants will be assessed and evaluated using standard pilot assessment methods and tests, and also evaluated based on the airline’s internal criteria. “Studies and BAA Training’s experience working with selection model for both […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Airbus will offer its A350-900 twin-engined widebody aircraft with a 280-tonne maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) from 2020. The standard -900 aircraft—offered as a 268 tonne aircraft, will have the same MTOW as the recently launched ultra long-range version of the aircraft, adopted by Singapore Airlines for its nonstop flights to the US. At the same […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes One of the world’s largest aeroplanes has made its maiden touchdown at Birmingham Airport, delighting hundreds of plane spotters who had gathered to see the behemoth touch down. An Emirates’ Airbus A380 – all 238ft of it – put wheels-down on the tarmac right on schedule for the airline’s inaugural Dubai service on Sunday. With […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The alleged hijacker of an EgyptAir plane has been arrested after hours of negotiations, according to Cypriot police, and has emerged from the grounded plane with his hands up. The man – said to be in an “unstable psychological state” and believed by authorities to be Egyptian – had held a number of hostages but […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Kazakh pilots safely landed a passenger plane without the use of its front wheels after a malfunction in the aircraft’s front landing gear on Sunday. Video of the miraculous landing immediately emerged online. The incident took place when the Fokker 100 aircraft operated by Kazakh airline ‘Bek Air’, which had departed from Kyzylorda, was landing […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Passengers were on Sunday evening evacuated from a terminal at Warsaw’s Modlin airport and four planes were redirected after what appeared to be a false alarm.  Magdalena Bojarska, a spokeswoman for the airport, was quoted by the tvn24.pl news website as saying: “Checks did not uncover any danger to passengers.” tvn24.pl reported that police had […]