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Embraer revealed new aircraft concepts today as part of the company’s progress report on Energia, Embraer’s initiative to get the aviation industry to net-zero by 2050.  A year on from Embraer’s Sustainability in Action event, which detailed the study of four new aircraft concepts powered by new technologies and renewable energies, the company has been […]

Effective April 30, 2023, WestJet will begin its first transpacific operation with the Calgary (YYC) – Tokyo/Narita (NRT) route. This service will be the only non-stop connection between the province of Alberta and Asia. The last operation between Alberta and Japan was on October 26, 2019, with a daily Air Canada service between Calgary and […]

Korean Air began operations with its Pratt & Whitney-powered Airbus A321neo aircraft, the newest model in the company’s fleet. The new A321neo features a new Prestige Class product with a fully reclining seat, the only South Korean company to offer this feature on a narrowbody aircraft. Korean Air’s first service of the A321neo was on […]

Minneapolis-based Sun Country Airlines has been expanding a lot recently with a major announcement a couple of weeks ago adding 12 new destinations to their route map. However, out of all the destinations they could’ve announced, Eau Claire, Wis. is not one I would place bets on. SkyWest under the United Express branding — that […]

A few days ago, Airbus UpNext, entered into a partnership with CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory (located in Geneva, Switzerland) to carry out a research project to evaluate how superconductivity can contribute to the decarbonization of future aviation systems. Airbus UpNext is a branch of Airbus that explores innovative technologies, identifying future trends […]

Despite having a chaotic summer of air travel, US airlines performed well during Thanksgiving week. According to the flight tracking website FlightAware, US airlines canceled a total of 441 flights across the week. Calm weather across the continental US kept the airlines moving. The only exception was a major storm on Sunday, delaying more than […]

A recent report from the Regional Airline Association (RAA) noted that 76 percent of U.S. airports lost air services when comparing figures from October 2022 with the same month in 2019. Of those 324 airports, the average loss equated to 31 percent of flights that were operated three years prior. The RAA cites a ‘severe […]

On November 30, 1988, Air Europa performed its first transatlantic service in a twin-engine aircraft. It is 34 years since this operation marked an important milestone in being the first Spanish airline to perform an ETOPS flight. The ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards) regulation was issued in 1985 and gathered the necessary requirements that […]

On November 19, Italian carrier Neos resumed its flights between Milan (MXP) and Cayo Largo del Sur (CYO) with a stopover in Havana (HAV) after almost three years. With this new operation, the leisure airline will offer up to four destinations in Cuba. Flight NO 601 landed at Vilo Acuña Airport (CYO) with ninety-two passengers […]

In October 2020, Airbus announced they would offer the A220-100 as an Airbus Corporate Jet (ACJ), known as the ACJ TwoTwenty. The Toulouse, France-based manufacturer had limited success marketing the A319 as an ACJ with only around 70 currently operating as a corporate jet. So what makes them think they can be successful with the […]