Overnight a number of neighbors to Qatar have decided to cut their connections with the state. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt announced they were breaking diplomatic relations with Qatar and instructed their nationals to leave the emirate within…
Lufthansa provided this PR: “As of this week, Lufthansa has been providing its 20,000 flight attendants with iPad Minis. The so-called cabin mobile device (CMD) will be provided to the entire cabin crew over the next few weeks. This is…
Crude oil exports to Asia from the US, Brazil and the North Sea have jumped 55% in the first four months of 2017, according to the latest figures from Vortexa, the oil markets analytics platform. Vortexa is an analytics platform…
The fracas between Boeing and Bombardier seems focused on a fear at Boeing that Bombardier could become another Airbus. That is highly amusing. In the ITC documents Boeing talks up a CS500 as the outcome they anticipate being the growing…
Embraer’s E2 flight test program has been a rather quiet affair. The OEM announces milestones but there is scant third-party program tracking. Embraer reported that the flight test fleet accumulated more than 650 flight hours after its first flight in…
In a fascinating story on AIN, we read that now China has to make changes to its pilot rules, raising the mandatory retirement age because they are also feeling a pilot shortage. China’s growth in air travel is probably…