• Kids take to the skies in search of Santa thanks to CityJet

    It was a day to remember for over 30 children from Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin as they embraced Christmas when they took to the skies above Ireland in search of Santa. In the company of their families, the children were guests of CityJet as its special Santa Express departed Dublin to check on…

  • Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines: Shaping the future together

    Deutsche Lufthansa AG takes over 100 percent of SN Airholding As of 2018, Brussels Airlines will be fully integrated into the Lufthansa Group and join the Eurowings Group. The unique characteristics of Brussels Airlines, including its attractive Brussels market, its well established Africa network and its advantageous cost structure which has allowed the leading Belgian airline to successfully compete…

  • Bell Helicopter and PGZ sign Letter of Intent on AH-1Z “Viper” Cooperation

    Bell Helicopter, PGZ align to support “Viper” for Poland attack helicopter acquisition program Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), a Polish leader in defense technologies, recently signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) at the Bell Helicopter world headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. The two companies will cooperate in identifying…

  • Dublin Selected as Site of IASS 2017

    Flight Safety Foundation Wednesday announced that the 70th annual International Air Safety Summit (IASS) will be held in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 23–25, 2017, and will be hosted by Aer Lingus. The announcement was made Wednesday on the final day of IASS 2016 in Dubai. “We are looking forward to bringing IASS back to Europe,” said…

  • Two awards for Zodiac Seats

    Zodiac Seats has won two Good Design Awards for two different products: the Premium Economy of China Airlines (Taiwan) and the Business Class of Japan Airlines. The Premium Economy seat of China Airlines (Taiwan) present on board its Airbus A350 is derived from the Airgo FX Premium model, produced by Zodiac Seats France. This seat…

  • Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Live Distributed Connectivity Between Royal Australian Air Force Simulators and US-based Test Lab

    Northrop Grumman Australia, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), successfully provided a proof-of-concept demonstrating the value of a distributed network environment between two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) simulators and a Northrop Grumman test lab providing advanced, realistic, virtual training at multiple sites on opposite sides of the globe. The demonstration last month…

  • Honeywell And Air Methods Sign Agreement For Sky Connect Tracker

    Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced it has entered into an agreement with Air Methods, America‘s largest emergency air medical provider and helicopter operator, to provide its fleet with Honeywell’s Sky Connect Tracker III satellite communications and helicopter tracking system. This will give Air Methods helicopter operators and fleet managers a full suite of products in…

  • LifePort receives FAA airworthiness approval for the Pilatus PC-12/47 and PC-12/47E

    LifePort, a Sikorsky company, has received Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness approval for its Patient Loading Utility System™ (PLUS), for the Pilatus PC-12/47 and PC-12/47E aircraft.  The addition of this Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) to LifePort’s portfolio extends the PLUS application across multiple Pilatus aircraft platforms. Sikorsky is a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) company. Compatible with either…

  • Cedar Executive Orders an additional Embraer Legacy 500

    Middle East Airlines (MEA) confirmed today at the Middle East and North Africa Business Aviation (MEBAA) show in Dubai the purchase of a second Embraer Legacy500 business jet for its private-jet affiliate, Cedar Executive. The second aircraft is expected to enter into service in mid-2017 Cedar Executive is based at Rafic Hariri International Airport –…

  • Embraer Delivers its 1,300th E-Jet to Tianjin Airlines

    Embraer reached another milestone today with its E-Jets program – the delivery of the 1,300th aircraft. The E-Jet, an E195, was handed over to China’s Tianjin Airlines in a ceremony at the factory in São José dos Campos. This delivery brings the Tianjin Airlines E-Jet fleet to 45, the largest in Asia. “We dedicate this…