DC Aviation Al-Futtaim (DCAF), a business aviation company with its stand-alone VVIP lounges and hangar facility, has announced it has entered into a partnership with Click Aviation Network. As part of the agreement, Click Aviation Network customers will enjoy a dedicated Click Aviation lounge, 24 hours on-site customs and immigration, ground support, conference room facility, business services, crew lounges and passenger shower facility at DCAF’s fully integrated facility at Dubai South. In addition, the VVIP lounge offers the highest levels of comfort and privacy and due to its unique location at Al Maktoum International Airport, guests enjoy seamless access to their aircraft which is parked in front of DCAF’s lounge facilities, making passenger boarding and deboarding extremely convenient. Also, as the facility is located close to the runway taxi times are kept to a minimum. The agreement will also see DCAF offer line maintenance services, passenger and crew transportation, as....
With virtual EBACE (Europe's principal business aircraft event) Connect that opened recently, Airbus kicked off the news of a another Airbus Corporate Jets (ACJ) order. The ACJ319neo order is with an "undisclosed customer" which the European manufacturer said, highlights the market appeal for this aircraft that offers a unique flying experience with its spacious cabin and intercontinental range. The ACJ319neo will be equipped with CFM International's LEAP-1A engines. 12 ACJ320neo Family customers have now placed a total of 16 orders including six ACJ319neo. “We are delighted to win another order for the ACJ319neo. Customers will enjoy travelling in the spacious cabin whilst flying intercontinental routes. The ACJ319neo has a robust reliability. Customers will as well benefit from a higher passenger capacity with exceptional comfort and similar operating costs to traditional business jets because of more cost-efficient maintenance, training, and better value,” said Benoit Defforge, ACJ president. With the ability to....
Qatar Airways will commence services to Málaga in July. Qatar Airways Group chief executive, Akbar Al Baker said: “As the world begins to open up again, we at Qatar Airways stand ready to take the lead in supporting the global economic and social recovery as demonstrated by our support for tourism in Spain. Spain has always been a strategically important country for our airline, as reflected by our deep partnership with Iberia and steady rebuild of our Spain network. “Our global network continues to rebuild and expand even in these challenging times. Passengers booking with Qatar Airways can do so with complete confidence that they can make changes to their booking should factors outside their control disrupt their travel plans.”
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will fly two times per week from the UAE capital to the island of Santorini in Greece. With Greece and the United Arab Emirates having opened a travel corridor earlier in May, vaccinated travellers can visit the alluring Aegean archipelago without needing to quarantine. Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will fly to Santorini from 2 July 2021 twice per week, every Monday and Friday. When returning to Abu Dhabi, UAE residents and citizens who have been vaccinated for at least 28 days, and have received a vaccine report on the Alhosn app, will be able to fly into the UAE from Greece without having to follow quarantine restrictions. Passengers will have to take a PCR test 72 hours before departure, alongside taking another PCR test on arrival into the UAE, and another on the sixth day after arriving. Children 12 years of age and younger are exempted.....
Flydubai is launching two new summer routes. The carrier will operate three weekly flights to Mykonos International Airport (JMK) and Santorini (Thira) Airport (JTR) between June and September. The launch of flights to the two Greek islands brings the number of seasonal routes served by Flydubai to six destinations including Bodrum and Trabzon in Turkey, Batumi in Georgia and Tivat in Montenegro. Ghaith Al Ghaith, chief executive officer at Flydubai, said: “we are excited to grow our network and give passengers more options to travel this summer. Demand for travel has started to increase as more countries gradually lift restrictions on international travel. The UAE has recently added Bahrain, Greece and Serbia to the safe travel list which has encouraged more people to start planning their summer holidays. Mykonos and Santorini will be popular choices for travel from the UAE and GCC.”
Chapman Freeborn has appointed Sharon Vaz-Arab, aviation expert with 30+ years of experience, as its new Director – IMEA (India, Middle East & Africa). Sharon, known throughout the aviation world as ‘Sherry’, arrives at the company following 26 years at Cargolux Airlines, where she began in sales and progressed to Director of Middle East and Indian operations. She also managed global accounts for Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This expertise will stand Sharon in good stead for her new role at Chapman Freeborn. Based in the company’s Dubai office, she is now tasked with managing its business in the IMEA region. Sharon will be working closely with Neil Dursley, Chapman Freeborn’s Chief Commercial Officer, and will play a crucial role in Neil’s global team. Neil commented: “We are delighted to welcome Sharon to Chapman Freeborn, her wealth of knowledge and expertise will be fundamental....
Pilots and crew of the Philippine Air Force’s 15th Strike Wing have arrived in Ankara to begin training with Turkey Aerospace Industry (TAI) on the T129 helicopters following approval for the export by the US State Department. The first two of the six ATAK helicopters ordered will be delivered to Manila in Q4. The Filipino crews are expected to be at the TAI headquarters until August. The T129 is a twin-engine multirole attack helicopter produced under licence from the Leonardo and based on the A129 Mangusta. It is the first dedicated attack helicopter to be operated by the Philippines, and will join the 15th Strike Wing to operate alongside the MD530G light attack and Leonardo A109 armed transport helicopters.
CAE announced recently that it has been selected by Jaunt Air Mobility to lead the design and development of the Jaunt Aircraft Systems Integration Lab (JASIL) for the the company's new all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, the Journey aircraft. Leveraging CAE's 70+ years of experience in high-fidelity simulation, CAE will work hand-in-hand with Jaunt to bring best-in-class simulation and modeling to the aircraft development program from inception. Certification plans for the Jaunt Journey are set to begin in 2023 and culminate in 2026 with entry-in-service (EIS) expected in early 2027. As part of the agreement, CAE and Jaunt Air Mobility intend to build an engineering simulator which will accelerate cockpit design and system development, and will reduce the airworthiness flight test time. The JASIL program is designed to derisk the aircraft program's schedule and manage development costs by identifying integration issues and proving failure modes early in the....
The Japanese and Canadian space agencies announced plans in May to send small rovers to the moon in the next several years, as Lockheed Martin unveiled a partnership with automaker General Motors to propose a rover for NASA’s Artemis program. The Japanese space agency JAXA said it is working with several Japanese companies to fly a tiny rover on a lunar lander mission to be launched in 2022 by ispace. The rover, roughly the size of a baseball, will split in half after landing, with the two hemispheres serving as wheels. It will move on the surface to collect data on autonomous driving technology to aid in the development of future rovers, including a large pressurized rover that JAXA is designing in cooperation with Toyota. The rover is one of several payloads that ispace is carrying to the moon on its first lunar lander, called Mission 1, launching in 2022.....
Firefly Aerospace announced in May it selected SpaceX to launch its first lunar lander mission for NASA, the latest in a series of contract wins by SpaceX for lunar missions. Firefly said that a SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch its Blue Ghost lunar lander in 2023 on a mission to land in Mare Crisium on the near side of the moon. The lander will be carrying 10 payloads for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program under a contract it won in February, along with additional commercial payloads. Firefly is developing its own launch vehicle, Alpha, with a first launch expected in the coming weeks. However, that rocket is not powerful enough to take Blue Ghost to the moon, requiring Firefly to purchase a launch from another launch provider. “The high performance of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle permits a lunar transit using minimal Blue Ghost propulsion resources, thereby allowing....
DCAF partners with Click Aviation Network
Airbus kicks-off EBACE with another ACJ order
Qatar Airways to resume flights to Spain
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi adds Santorini to its expanding European network
Flydubai launches new summer routes to Europe
Sharon Vaz-Arab appointed as IMEA regional director for Chapman Freeborn
Filipino Air Force crew arrive in Turkey for training with TAI
CAE to accelerate the design & development of eVTOL aircraft with latest simulation technologies
Japanese, Canadian space agencies to send rover to moon in 2022
SpaceX selected to launch 1st lunar lander for Firefly Aerospace
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