Another SAA bailout
You have got to love state ownership if you run an airline. No pesky shareholders; all you have to do is upgrade the key people in politics and business keeps rolling along. Profits? Not the key issue. To get an…
Year 2017
In conversation with Cobalt Air
We had a conversation with Andrew Madar, CEO at Cobalt Air, which is based in Cyprus. Cyprus is not an easy market, but Cobalt has a strategy in place to avoid the pitfalls Cyprus Airways faced. Besides this, Mr Madar…
The GTF and ongoing negative news
It’s as if P&W can’t catch a break. Today we have another negative story. The proposition is that CFM’s LEAP has outsold the GTF by ten to one in 2017. It is true P&W has stumbled with the GTF. Stumbles…
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GE retires P&W powered testbed
Probably the oldest 747 aircraft in service may be retiring. GE Aviation’s original 747 Flying Test Bed is headed to storage – it flew its last flight on January 25 at GE Aviation’s Flight Test Operation in Victorville, California. Here…
BP offers more biojet with Scandinavia focus
Air BP, the international aviation fuel products, and service supplier is offering biojet to customers at Bergen airport in Norway. The first batch was delivered to the airport on 16 August. This follows Air BP’s introduction of biojet at Halmstad…