Football fans, media representatives and other important guests will travel during 28th Orange African Cup of Nations with Small Planet Airlines. Small Planet Airlines will carry passengers until the 15th of February. The championship finals are scheduled to take place in Libreville, Gabon. From there Small Planet Airlines will carry passengers to other cities in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea – [...]
Kyrgyzstan Civil Aviation Authority has issued to BAA Training (Vilnius, Lithuania) an approval certificate to operate the type rating training on Airbus A320 Full Flight Simulator (FFS). BAA Training has been earlier approved by Civil Aviation Authorities of Kazakhstan and Ukraine to conduct Boeing 737 type rating training. “As the Kyrgyzstan aviation market currently is in a developing process and is [...]
Within the next decade the aviation market will be steadily shifting towards the East. Extensive investments into the aviation infrastructure and logistics, expanding and constantly updated aircraft fleets as well as increasing passenger flows will definitely impel the MRO sector to concentrate on the Middle East, especially the North African and Asian regions. Last year airlines based in the area [...]
Air passenger safety depends on many factors, such as aircraft technical state, air conditions, pilot qualification and experience as well as his psychological readiness. 70% of aircraft accidents, however, are still attributed to human error, mainly due to tense and strenuous working conditions. Some pilots, when faced with a critical situation, tend to act spontanously, while others fail to avoid [...]
In 2011 aviation market achieved the course of being the safest ever in commercial aviation. According to Wall Street Journal statistics apportioned one passenger death for every 7.1 million air travellers worldwide which will break the previous record of one per 6.4 million, set in 2004. Ground safety and pilot training are two areas to focus on, as well as [...]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicts that in 2012 airlines all over the world will see their profits drop by 49%, i.e. USD 1.4 billion compared to the previously expected returns. In the meantime, aviation specialists unanimously agree that by 2016 the MRO sector should increase from current USD 46.9 billion to USD 56.4 billion. Global passenger demand should [...]
Despite the rapidly growing passenger flow, growing aviation industry profits and activity indicators in 2011, the forecast for next year is less optimistic. According to the most optimistic IATA expectations the next year airlines’ profits should decrease from the initially planned USD 4.9 billion to USD 3.5 billion. The biggest challenge awaits MRO service providers as airlines will demand exceptionally [...]
The increasing concern about the possibility that the current Eurozone crisis might evolve into a ‘second wave’ of recession has caused the IATA to announce revisions to its aviation industry outlook. In a worst case scenario in 2012 the industry might have to suffer losses of up to USD 8 billion, while a slightly more optimistic one suggests that the [...]
