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Rolls-Royce’s all-electric ‘Spirit of Innovation’ aircraft is officially the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft, having set two new world records which have now been independently confirmed. The aircraft reached a top speed of 555.9 kmph over 3 kilometers,…
Wright Electric has announced the Wright Spirit a 100 sweater electric aircraft that now joins its flagship electric aircraft the 1. It has four-megawatt class motors and the design is based on its BA4 146 platform. “The Wright Spirit aircraft design builds…
When your phone is set on Airplane mode, all radios inside the device are disabled. This prevents radio signals from possibly interfering with the equipment that pilots rely on while flying an airplane. Also known as Flight mode, or even offline mode,…
AirAsia bosses chose the second day of the 2019 Paris Air Show to announce that they are converting an order for 253 A320-200neos to the larger A321-200neo. Malaysia’s largest low cost carrier, AirAsia Berhad, today decided to ramp up the type it has on order…
Despite the current slump in the domestic aviation market, India will require up to 10,000 new pilots by 2030. Acknowledging this, AirAsia India on Tuesday launched the country’s first cadet-pilot program, ready to send its first batch of 15 cadets to New…
Emirates offers summer promotion fares for customers from Vietnam who book tickets from now until April 22 and travel from April 15 until November 30, 2019. Economy Class fares start from VNĐ17,189,000 (US$747) to Dubai, VNĐ19,999,000 ($870) to Paris,…
Vietjet does not operate any flights with Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. We are currently operating with a fleet entirely composed of new Airbus aircraft from the A320 family aircraft. The average age of our fleet is 2.82 years. We are also using latest generation…
Malaysia’s long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X on Thursday appointed Nadda Buranasiri as its new group chief executive officer to take over from its co-founders. Buranasiri, chief executive of the Thai arm of AirAsia X since 2014, will replace co-CEOs and…
DHL Express has signed up for four more A330-300 passenger-to-freighter conversions from ST Aerospace subsidiary Elbe Flugzeugwerke. The express operator, which in July last year became the launch customer for the conversion programmewith an order for two of…
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, Vietjet presented a one-kilogram golden aircraft model, the biggest prize under the campaign “Win a 1kg gold aircraft, fly to a happy future”, to Ms Tran Phoi Hanh, a passenger on VJ610 flight from Ho Chi Minh…
In a statement released on Friday, Cebu Pacific said it took delivery of a new ATR 72-600 on Feb. 28, bringing the budget carrier’s current fleet to 59 planes. It was the fourth of the 16 firm orders Cebu Pacific made last year. The arrival of the new ATR…
It’s like dining a la carte 34,000 feet above sea level. That’s the “Book the Cook” experience that you get when you fly Singapore Airlines. It’s an exclusive advance inflight meal-ordering service that allows passengers in Suites, First Class, Business Class…
