INTERVIEW: Getting pilot careers off the ground

Alistair Checketts is chief flying instructor, with Gloucester, UK-based training school Skyborne, where he develops and manages airline training programmes. How did you get into aviation? My grandfather had a passion for flying and was in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, before getting a job with BAC (now BAE). His enthusiasm […]

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US investigators puzzle over Atlas 767’s fatal dive

Twenty years after the most notorious accident in the Boeing 767’s history, US investigators are faced with explaining another fatal dive involving a twinjet which has maintained an impressive safety record over its near-40-year service life. The Atlas Air 767-300F had been inbound to Houston on 23 February when, during descent to its cleared height […]

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JAL targets 500 destinations by FY2020

Japan Airlines is targeting to connect 500 destinations by the end of April 2020 by leveraging on its partnerships with other carriers, the airline disclosed in an update to its medium-term management plan. The 500 destinations target was listed among three key network expansion initiatives, which included preparing for “functional improvements at Haneda and Narita” […]

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US-Bangla to lease 737 Max 8

US-Bangla Airlines has agreed to lease a Boeing 737 Max 8 from AerCap, making it the first Bangladeshi carrier to have committed to the re-engined variant. Cirium’s Fleets Analyzer shows that the carrier will take delivery of the aircraft, which comes from AerCap’s existing order stream, in early 2020. It will be leased for 12 […]

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Jet’s shareholders approve debt-for-equity swap

Shareholders of Jet Airways approved a plan to swap the airline’s lenders’ loans for equity at a 21 February extraordinary general meeting. The debt-for-equity swap is part of the bailout plan driven by a consortium of lenders led by the State Bank of India that was approved by Jet’s board on 14 February. The plan […]

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Jet Airways grounds two more aircraft for lease defaults

Jet Airways has grounded two more aircraft after it failed to pay their lease rentals. The carrier disclosed the additional groundings on 23 February in a letter to its two stock exchanges. It had previously disclosed that four jets were grounded for non-payment of rentals on 7 February, but none of the six aircraft have […]

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Afghanistan opens a new route to India via Chabahar in Iran for export to India

Afghanistan opened a new route to India on Sunday on the way to Chabahar in Iran for export to India. Actually, the war-torn country land-locked country – Afghanistan – is trying to reach overseas markets to improve its economy. Officials said that 23 trucks carrying 57 tonnes of dry fruits, textiles, carpets and mineral items […]

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