PETER NYGARD - B727-17(RE)Super27 - VP-BPZ

 

Duncan Stewart  - LAX

Dynamic Airways to start Guyana - New York JFK flights

Dynamic Airways will launch 4x weekly flights connecting New York JFK with Georgetown Cheddi Jagan, Guyana beginning June 26. Operations are on-board a B767-200(ER).

MIAT Mongolian Airlines has selected Frankfurt (FRA) as its third destination in Europe

On 19 June the airline began twice-weekly (Thursdays and Sundays) services on the 6,640-kilometre route from Ulaanbator (ULN) using the airline’s 767-300s. The new service will operate until mid-September and faces no direct competition. The airline’s other destinations in Europe are Berlin Tegel and Moscow Sheremetyevo, while Beijing, Hong Kong, Osaka Kansai, Seoul Incheon and Tokyo Narita complete the airline’s international network. Aenna

 

 

WestJet Encore celebrates first anniversary

Airline grows to 18 destinations and 13 aircraft in inaugural year

CALGARY, June 24, 2014 /CNW/ - WestJet Encore celebrates its first birthday today, just days before eastern operations launch with flights between Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Toronto.

The regional airline, which took to the skies June 24, 2013, has enjoyed tremendous support from the many communities that now have regular air service, and the many more that now boast better schedules, more frequency, and more options with respect to carriers and destinations.

The successful inaugural year of WestJet Encore can be directly attributed to the hard work of the many WestJetters and the thousands of guests that made us their choice for air travel," said Ferio Pugliese, President, WestJet Encore. "Communities across Canada have welcomed us with open arms, and we have tried to repay their loyalty with a remarkable guest experience, low fares, greater access and more choices within the wider WestJet network and, in the months to come, connectivity from Vancouver Island all the way to Toronto and Quebec City."

In the twelve months since WestJet Encore took to the skies, it has added 12 destinations to the original six, which included Calgary, Alberta, Fort St. John, Nanaimo, Vancouver, and Victoria, British Columbia and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The fleet of Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft will have grown from two to 13 by the end of June.

On Friday, June 27, WestJet Encore will officially launch east-bound service with four daily, non-stop flights between Thunder Bay and Toronto.
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First delivery aircraft of ARJ21 completes first flight

 

ARJ21-700 AC105 landed steadily at Shanghai Dachang Airport at 14:38 on June 18th, 2014, after a flight of 128 minutes. At this point, AC105 has successfully completed its first flight. AC105 is the first aircraft to be delivered to the first customer Chengdu Airlines, and this flight is the first flight test mission independently completed by Flight Test Center of COMAC (FTCC) since its establishment two years ago.

 It is reported that AC105 rolled out on December 30th, 2013, and was officially transferred to FTCC on June 10th, 2014. This aircraft has successively completed multiple tests, such as Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) de-preserving and start-up test, environmental control test, tightness test, onboard functional test of electrical power system, etc., and is installed with seat interiors and coherent systems in accordance with the delivery standard of the first aircraft.

 

 

Maintenance personnel conducted final debugging on the aircraft before flight test on June 18th, 2014.

 

Air Algérie sources additional Airbus metal for summer operations

Air Algérie has now leased an A330-300, 9M-XXM (cn 741), from Malaysian longhaul LCC, AirAsia X, joining two A340-300s - CS-TQM (cn 117) and CS-TQZ (cn 202) - that have been sourced from Portuguese ACMI specialists, Hi Fly.

AIR EUROPA - ERJ-195 - EC-LIN "Fundacion Filia de Amparo AL Menor"

José Ramon Valero - PMI

HERMES - B737-400 - 9H-HER

José Ramon Valero - PMI

THOMAS COOK - A320-200 - LY-VEN

José Ramon Valero - PMI

AERO NOVA - ATR-42-300 - EC-IDG "Burgos"

José Ramon Valero - PMI

SKY TAXI - Saab 340A - SP-MRE

José Ramon Valero - PMI

VOLOTEA - B717 - EC-EWJ - NANTES "Allez les Canaris"

José Ramon Valero - PMI

Russia's Rusline eyes B737-400s

Rusline  is planning to add its first Boeing metal to its fleet of six CRJ-100s, nineteen CRJ-200s, and two EMB-120s. According to the Airfinance Journal, the Russian regional carrier is looking to add eight B737-400s.

Air Urga eyes three CRJ-200s

Air Urga is planning to lease, with an option to buy, three CRJ-200s formerly with UTair-Ukraine

Canada's Sunwing using a National B757 on Caribbean, US flights

Sunwing Airlines has secured permission from the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) to wet-lease a B757-200, N567CA (msn 24608), from US operator National Airlines for use on non-scheduled flights between Toronto Pearson and Panamá City Tocumen Int'l over the period June 18 to July 17, 2014.
Photo:José Ramon Valero - PMI - B737-800 - C-FTJH

Royal Air Maroc eyes B737s, MD-83 for summer leases

Royal Air Maroc is set to bolster its mainstream fleet with a variety of foreign metal ch-aviation has exclusively learned. With the prospect of a busy summer season ahead, Air Explore CEO Martin Stulajter has confirmed the Moroccan national carrier will wet-lease a B737-400, OM-EEX (msn 26302), from the Slovakian ACMI specialist with effect from July 26 until mid-September. The aircraft will be based out of Tangiers.

HAINAN AIRLINES - A330-300 - F-WWCH

Alain Charpentier - TLS

FARNAIR EUROPE - ATR-42F - HB-AFF

Alain Charpentier - TLS

ECAIR to get first B787-8 in 4Q 2015

ECAIR - Equatorial Congo Airlines will add a first B787-8 to its fleet during the final quarter of 2015, Kevin Gotene, the head of network planning and scheduling at the Congolese carrier, has said. Gotene told Routes Online in a recent interview that the aircraft will be sourced from its Swiss partner, PrivatAir, which has two B787-8s on order from Boeing.
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Korean Air to Operate Boeing 747 Service to Madrid Sep/Oct 2014

Korean Air from 01SEP14 to 25OCT14 once again increases capacity on Seoul Incheon – Madrid route, as the 3 weekly flights being operated by Boeing 747-400, instead of Airbus A330-200 aircraft. KE previously operated 747 aircraft on this route from 01MAY14 to 17JUN14.
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Virgin Atlantic identifies first routes for 787-9:the Boston route from London Heathrow

ts first 787-9, which will be delivered in September,As its 787-9 fleet increases over the following five months, Virgin says it will place the aircraft on flights to Washington DC, Newark and New York JFK.

TUIfly Nordic outlines proposed B787 winter longhaul routes

TUIfly Nordic will begin offering B787-8 flights from Stockholm Arlanda to Cancún and Mauritius as well as from Copenhagen Kastrup to Montego Bay beginning this December.

AIR ALGÉRIE (HIFLY) - A340-300 - CS-TQM

João Pessoa - Lisboa

VISION AIRLINES - B767-300W - N661CS

João Pessoa - Lisboa

LOT - B787-8 - SP-LRF

João Pessoa - Lisboa

EVELOP - A330-300 -CS-TRH

João Pessoa - Lisboa

TAP PORTUGAL - A330-200 - CS-TOQ

João Pessoa - Lisboa

DELTA AIR LINES - B747-400 - N666US

Duncan stewart - LAX

SUN COUNTRY - B737-700W - N716SY

Duncan stewart - LAX

FEDEX EXPRESS - MD-10-10F - N550FE

Duncam Stewart - LAX

SECOND B787 OF KENYA AIRWAYS

Hainan Airlines Launches First Ever Boston to Beijing Service

BOSTON, June 20, 2014 /CNW/ -- China's Hainan Airlines today launches nonstop service between Boston's Logan Airport and Beijing, representing the first scheduled nonstop flight between New England and Mainland China in history - and with the industry's most advanced airliner - the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

HONG KONG EXPRESS - A320-200 - B-LCA - New Livery

Thomas Kwan - Hong Kong-Chek Lap Kok Int'l Airport - China (Hong Kong)

VietJet Air - A320-200 - VN-A679 - "VISA"

 

Dau Tien Dat - Ho Chi Minh City Tan Son Nhat - Vietnam

TAP PORTUGAL - A330-200 - CS-TOQ

João Luis Pessoa - Lisboa

A350 XWB test fleet now complete: ‘MSN005’ – the fifth and final flight-test aircraft takes to the skies

With the first flight today of A350 MSN005, the five-strong development fleet is now complete. Being the second passenger cabin-equipped A350 and tasked with route proving and ETOPS validation, MSN005 embodies the operationally definitive configuration for Type Certification duties. This milestone means that the A350 XWB development programme is at full speed and on track for certification in the third quarter of this year, to be followed thereafter by delivery of the first customer aircraft to Qatar Airways in the fourth quarter.

As of today, the A350 XWB programme has already achieved more than 2,000 flight-test hours in around 500 flights, and with this the programme is demonstrating the highest flying rate ever achieved in Airbus flight tests, with around 80 flight hours per aircraft per month.

Dobrolet, Aeroflot’s start-up LCC off-shoot, began operations on 10 June

Dobrolet, Aeroflot’s start-up LCC off-shoot, began operations on 10 June with its new 189-seat 737-800s. Initially linking Moscow Sheremetyevo and Simferopol four times daily, the carrier is planned to start flights to St Petersburg and Samara in August. Its parent company provides the only competition on the route, with 70 weekly flights on the 1,239-kilometre sector. Aenna

flyafrica.com, to start flights on July 23

flyafrica.com has announced it will launch its first operations on Wednesday, July 23, 2014. The Zimbabwean LCC's initial services will cover Johannesburg O.R. Tambo to the resort town of Victoria Falls with flights to operate 3x weekly.

Having acquired five B737-500s formerly with CSA Czech Airlines, the carrier says it will announce additional bases, likely in Central and West Africa, in due course.