The May Day of year 2011 – turned out to be a day of significant importance to aviation. In the true aviation fashion, two events where pilots said “Mayday” were solved on the very day. 1. AF447 FDR memory unit retrieved The missing memory unit of the Air...
Aeroflot, effective INOV is resuming flights to Sri Lanka. It is still not clear how this will be affecting SriLankan’s planned Moscow flights due to start on 23DEC. Aeroflot will operate nonstop on SVO-CMB-SVO while SriLankan is planning a CMB-AUH-DME-AUH-CMB run.
SriLankan Airlines has added its fifth Airbus A320 aircraft, 4R-ABL. The aircraft, MSN2345, powered by IAE V2500 engines was delivered on 8APR2011 as UL1423 from Guangzhou. The 2004 December built aircraft was previously with China Southern Airlines under the registration B-2374 and had been in storage for over an...
Recently, Airbus COO – Customers, Mr. John Leahy stated that Airbus believes a viable all new narrow-body aircraft could not be made before at least 2030. According to him, the 2020 entry into service of a possible Boeing 797, will deliver only a 3-3.5% better economics than a present...
An Emirates Airline Airbus A380 encountered a serious CAT while in cruise. Read on to find more details.
AirAsia and Expedia will be setting up a joint venture to sell flights, hotels and holiday packages in the Asia Pacific region, the two firms announced Tuesday. The venture will consist of the brands GoRooms, AirAsia Go and Expedia, AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes said on Twitter. Expedia’s Barry...
The Tu-154 belonging to Alrosa which crash landed to an abandoned airfield last September, took off from it yesterday. Photo courtesy bnkomi.ru The incident occured on 7th September, when the Alrosa Minry Air Tupolev TU-154M, bearing reg RA-85684, was operating flight 6R 514 from Polyarny to Moscow Domodedovo. While...
The first Airbus A33O aircraft for Virgin Blue is now in Australia. Photo by Paul Finnigan, view larger version here. Photo by Biondi. The aircrafr, Airbus A330-200, MSN 365, is an ex- Emirates aircraft and was built in 2001. The aircraft spent the last ten years as A6-EAB. In...
SriLankan Airlines has revealed details of its 2011/2012 Winter expansion into Europe. The airline will add an extra weekly flight to Frankfurt and Paris each. Please note that further changes are expected. Schedules below. Frankfurt UL553 CMB 0025 – 0650 FRA 1(NEW), 35 EQV UL553 CMB 0150 – 0815...
UPDATE: SriLankan Airlines has brought forward its Moscow flights launch to 15th September 2011. The flights will now operate twice weekly via Dubai on board Airbus A320 aircraft. More info could be found here. SriLankan Airlines today announced that they will be launching flights to Moscow, Russia for...