• Turkish Airlines launches its updated mobile application.

    “Europe’s Best Airline”* for the sixth consecutive years presents its new functions, now available in mobile applications. Turkish Airlines, the one and only airline flying to more countries and international destinations than any other, presents its new mobile application to its esteemed passengers. Designed to provide the ultimate user-friendly layout, with high quality visuals of destinations…

  • Turkish Airlines To Cut Fuel Costs Using Innovative Honeywell Connected Aircraft Software

    Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has been selected by Turkish Airlines to provide its Fuel Efficiency software, part of Honeywell’s GoDirect suite of connected aircraft services, to reduce fuel use and associated costs. The software solution provides the airline with instant analytics and recommendations on an airplane’s current fuel consumption and ways to save fuel. Honeywell’s software,…

  • New airgusto restaurant service on airberlin long-haul flights

    Berlin‘s trendy restaurants set for service at 10,000 metres. High-quality food from trendy local restaurants – served above the clouds: airberlin and the Dutch start-up company, iFleat, are introducing this world first for flights. The new shared airgusto premium service allows passengers who have booked a long-haul flight from Berlin in Economy Class to pre-order…

  • Journalistic and economic values are, unfortunately, not correlated. For Now.

    As long as digital publishing flattens the business value of content, there is little hope to improve the economics of news publishing. The problem needs to be addressed.The biggest failure of digital news platforms is their inability to assign a different economic value depending on a story’s type and quality.On a news site or an…

  • ExoMars arrives at the Red Planet

    The ExoMars 2016 mission will enter orbit around the Red Planet on 19 October. At the same time, its Schiaparelli lander will descend to the surface. Representatives of traditional and social media are invited to attend a two-day event at ESA’s ESOC control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. ExoMars is a joint endeavour between ESA and Russia’s…

  • OGMA gets French military aviation authority approval – FRA145

    OGMA hosted this Thursday, 6 October, a delegation from DSAE (Direction de la Sécurité Aeronatique d’État) headed by Brigadier General Marc de Bouvier, who is in charge of Airworthiness issues, for the formal presentation of OGMA with the FRA 145 Approval. This certification, awarded by DSAE, the authority that manages the military and state aviation…

  • OGMA has scored first place in the Embraer Service Center Network

    The survey covered all MROs that are part of the company’s Network of authorized centers. Embraer’s Performance Report – which started in 2015 – integrates the assessment of nine categories regarding its services, namely the performance of all authorized Service Centers in the areas of “Partnership with Embraer” and “Customer Relationship”. Such international achievement is…

  • Fusion-equipped Beechcraft King Air models certified in Brazil

    Beechcraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company, today announced it has received certification from Brazil’s Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (ANAC) for its line of Pro Line Fusion-equipped Beechcraft King Air turboprop aircraft with cabin enhancements. Deliveries into the Latin American region are imminent, beginning with a King Air…

  • Dassault Combined Vision System Certified on Falcon 2000S/LXS

    Dassault Aviation’s revolutionary Combined Vision System –dubbed FalconEye–has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency and the Federal Aviation Agency for use on the Falcon 2000S and LXS twinjet aircraft. FalconEye will also be certified soon on the new Falcon 8X ultra-long range trijet. FalconEye is the first head up display (HUD) system to…

  • Leonardo: the AW169 scores further global success

        Five AW169 orders from Lease Corporation International and Helikorea that will be delivered in 2016 and 2017 Specialist Aviation Services signed a Framework Agreement for a further six AW169s with deliveries expected between 2017 and 2019 Agreements for nearly 150 AW169s, including firm orders, framework contracts and options, signed to date by customers…