Category Archive: Airline News

Crash: Malaysia B772 near Donetsk on Jul 17th 2014, aircraft was shot down – The Aviation Herald

Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, registration 9M-MRD performing flight MH-17/KL-4103 from Amsterdam Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia with 283 passengers and 15 crew, was enroute at FL330 about 20nm northeast of Donetsk Ukraine when the transponder data became unreliable at 13:18Z position N48.28 E38.08 and was lost at FL330 at 13:20Z. The aircraft came down near …

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WestJet reports June load factor of 77.4 per cent – Yahoo Finance

Airline sets a new single-day record flying more than 63,000 guests CALGARY , July 7, 2014 /CNW/ – WestJet today announced June 2014 traffic results with a load factor of 77.4 per cent, an increase of 0.6 percentage points year over year. Revenue passenger miles (RPMs), or traffic, increased 5.0 per cent year over year, …

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Vincent Aviation Australia announces 120 Darwin staff to lose jobs as company goes into receivership – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Up to 120 staff at the Darwin-based commercial airline Vincent Aviation Australia have lost their jobs as the company today announced it has gone into receivership. An email sent to airline staff says their employment is terminated from today. The receivers, BDO, told staff their wages had been paid up until last Sunday and payment …

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Secondary Market Takes Pressure Off Smaller RJs – Aviation Week

A year ago in this space, the Embraer regional jet (ERJ) family’s prognosis was summed up in two words: slow fade. As U.S. carriers—the major drivers behind the 50-seat RJ’s climb—revamp their strategies to include larger narrowbody aircraft operating fewer flights, the pace of that fade should pick up. Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery shows that the …

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