Ryanair Reintorduces Domestic Flights With Stansted-Edinburgh Reading Time: < 1 minuteAccording to the latest schedule, Ryanair will operate domestic UK flights again. It plans to begin London Stansted to Edinburgh this winter with 2-3 flights daily. Ryanair last operated these flights between October 2014 and October 2019 and a couple of times in December 2020.…
An F-2000 in clean configuration as it catches up with the slow mover. In the box, an HH-139 helicopter appears through the starboard side window as he closely monitor the zombie. (All photos: Stefano D’Urso/The Aviationist) We have taken part in a scheduled Slow Mover Intercept exercise during which we were intercepted by Eurofighter F-2000…
Photo: planespotters.net / Lukas Roudny Reading Time: < 1 minuteBrussels Airlines now offers its customers the option to choose a carbon-neutral booking with a single click. After flight selection, they can choose one of three options to fly CO2-neutral. The first option is to use SAF which is currently produced from residual biogenic materials and…
A selfie of a Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot. (Image credit: Ukrainian Air Force) According to the Ukrainian military, the Fulcrum downed the Flanker derivative over Kherson region earlier today. “Today, May 27, around 14.00 o’clock a MiG-29 fighter of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down a Russian fighter Su-35, which posed…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEurowings officially put its first Airbus A320neo into service on May 26, when the aircraft registration D-AENA took off for its first commercial flight under flight number EW9584, carrying 180 passengers from Düsseldorf to Palma de Mallorca. The A320neo aircraft will initially fly from Düsseldorf to Málaga, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Budapest,…
Walmart and DroneUp are expanding their drone delivery services to 34 sites in 6 states. Pictured above is a drone flying above one of the first hubs in operation, located in Bentonville, Arkansas. (Photo courtesy of DroneUp) DroneUp announced this week that its delivery operations with Walmart will expand to 34 sites by the end…
ZeroAvia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with MHI RJ Aviation Group at the end of 2021. As part of the new agreement that was recently announced, MHIRJ will support ZeroAvia’s pursuit of certification for its hydrogen-electric powertrain. (Photo courtesy of ZeroAvia) ZeroAvia, a startup developing hydrogen-powered engine technology for commercial aviation, expanded its existing…
BAA Training Launches a New Cadet Program with Airline Pilot Job Guarantee Photo: BAA Training Reading Time: 2 minutesResponding to the ramp-up of the aviation recovery and the reemerging pilot shortage, BAA Training, one of the TOP three independent aviation training providers in Europe, is launching a unique value BAA Training Cadet Program. The new program…
Tom Cruise as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in, “Top Gun: Maverick”. (Photo: via Paramount Pictures) Opening Night Crowds Pack Theaters: Tell the Aviationist, “It Was Worth the Wait”. “It was worth the wait!”. “Way better than the original”. “I thought it would never live up to the hype, but it was really good.” “Amazing. I’m coming…
Cirrus Aircraft’s Ivy McIver and Seneca Giese are the two guests on this episode. On this episode of the Connected Aviation Intelligence Podcast, we’re joined by two guests, including Ivy McIver, a pilot and director of the SR Product Line at Cirrus Aircraft and the company’s director of business development, Seneca Giese. Two years ago,…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBritish Airways owner IAG has agreed to order 50 B737 MAX aircraft delivered between 2023 and 2027. The order for 25 737-8-200 and 25 737 MAX 10 jets for short-haul operations at IAG-owned airlines is worth $6.25 billion. However, the company said it had negotiated a substantial discount, as is typical.…
The American Airlines Integrated Operations Center in Fort Worth, Texas (Photo courtesy of American Airlines) American Airlines has selected Microsoft Azure as its new “preferred cloud platform” for airline applications such as airport taxiing decisions as well as storage and access to flight operational and other organizational data and information. Microsoft Azure is American’s latest…