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08/10/2023

The aircraft will be delivered later this year.

02/07/2023

This was supposed to be the 3rd Airbus A350 (MSN 60) for SriLankan Airlines before the delivery was cancelled.

30/05/2023

Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport, the original look with an adjacent car park.

30/05/2023

SriLankan Airlines A340-300 4R-ADA just before it was fully dismantled; Asia's first A340.

30/05/2023

Bandaranaike International Airport - New Runway
Completion date - July 1986
Sub-contractor - MAGA Engineering (Sri Lanka)
Contractor - Kajima Corp (Japan)

Image: MAGA, 1986

22/12/2022

China's own Comac C919 cockpit on the launching customer China Eastern Airlines’ first C919 in Shanghai.

13/12/2022

Staying inside a narrow body for 12 hours isn't ideal at all.

When you need to stay in the air for a 12 hour test flight, you might as well get creative. https://www.flightradar24.com/AIBXLR/2e856ab5

20/11/2022

An Airbus A320neo LATAM Airlines (CC-BHB) has been seriously damaged in Peru (Lima) after hitting a firefighter entering the runway during take-off.

Following the impact, the 2nd engine of the plane fell off the wing and the landing gear on the right side was destroyed.

Passengers were evacuated, no casualties.

The plane operated LATAM LA2213 flight on the Lima - Juliaca route.

📸: Unknown

06/11/2022

A Precision Air ATR-42 crashed into Lake Victoria on the final approach to Bukoba Airport.

05/11/2022

World's largest carriers listed

Source: visialcapitalist

05/11/2022

Compare airline fleets visually

What type of aircraft do the world’s largest airlines use? This infographic breaks down the airline fleets of major carriers

15/10/2022

Where did all those buttons go?

13/10/2022

Off-duty Indonesian pilot attacks Turkish cabin crew on a Turkish Airlines flight.

11/10/2022

One of the main landing gear wheels of a Boeing Dreamlifter - a modified 747 used by Boeing to airlift components for new aircraft - fell off shortly after take off this morning in Taranto, Italy.

09/09/2022

📸 Alan Grubelic

04/09/2022

FlightRadar24 reports,

Media reports indicate that OE-FGR was not reachable by air traffic control authorities for some time. Just a few moments ago, we stopped receiving signals from the aircraft. Final altitude received was 2100 ft at -8000 fpm descent.

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Initial data suggests it's a spiraling nose-dive. Official reports are yet to receive but the chances of surviving after such a decent (8000 feet per minute) is highly unlikely. Swedish authorities are on search mission. The aircraft in question is a Cessna 551, otherwise known as Cessna Citation II owned by a private owner (a business jet).

01/09/2022

Women in Aviation ❤️

31/08/2022

Ex-Srilankan Airlines 4R-ALJ, currently stored at Moscow-Sheremetyevo wearing the registration RA-73851. The photo was taken in the Netherlands. The aircraft is currently in iFly Airlines fleet.

31/08/2022

Equatorial Guinea - Government Boeing 777-2FB/LR at Lisbon, Portugal.

26/08/2022

That's crazy. F15 maybe? I'm pretty bad at military stuff. Help?

25/08/2022

VN-A895, A350-941, Enjoying a beautiful sunset in Bangkok (SkyTeam livery)

📸 Rob Van Arkel

23/08/2022

Now that's what you call a business class. Emirates

18/08/2022

How to identify Aeroflot A350s that went to Turkish after the sanctions against Russia.

18/08/2022

It now has four A350s that were destined for Aeroflot, with two more still to be delivered.

12/08/2022

Ex SriLankan Airlines Airbus A340-300 (ex 4R-ADE), now flies for HiFly Malta under the reg 9H-SUN.

08/08/2022

Aarrrgh!! That's painful...

Cargo Boeing 777F damages it's right wing after hitting a lamp post while taxiing at Chicago O'Hare Airport.

29/07/2022

London's forgotten airstrip.

Directory of abandoned, forgotten and little known airfiels in europe

15/06/2022

Zurich is not functioning at the moment due to a systems failure

09/06/2022

Congratulations SriLankan Airlines on winning two APEX awards

02/05/2022

It's happening guys 😍😍😍

07/04/2022

Bad days in aviation. Another incident was reported with Air France 777 going unresponsive and dropping some significant altitude without control while landing. The pilots have only been able to regain control at a very low altitude of 1200 ft forcing them to go around under emergency conditions.

19/03/2022

The authorities of Cuba, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Venezuela and Kyrgyzstan have officially promised not to detain Russian aircraft, an informed source in the industry confirmed to Vestnik ATOR The Federal Air Transport Agency of Russia (Rosaviatsia) issued a statement among Russian carriers that there....

17/02/2022

Qatar 777 receives a special treatment of having a retro livery for its 25th anniversary

04/02/2022

What age does it become harder to learn?

I’m just about to turn 65. I’ve been employed as an airline pilot for 36 years. I’m reasonably intelligent, but admittedly far from a wunderkind, and with no offers to work for the JPL or NASA. Pretty much an average guy who’s outstanding at being humble. At at age 64, I had to learn how to fly the most complex and advanced airliner currently in service, the Airbus A350. I had flown the relatively simplistic Boeing 767 for the past 25 years, and had never flown an Airbus, which is completely different in almost every way from a Boeing.

I was the oldest person to attempt going through the Delta’s A350 Initial Qualification training program. I was warned that even much younger pilots were finding the training to be extremely challenging, and that because of my age, success might not be an option. It was an extremely complex air plane. The training manual is literally 7000 pages long. Countless Training videos, 6 weeks of simulators, extremely difficult electronic and oral exams. “It can’t be done, old guy”, many said.

BU****IT! I went through the training and actually had an easy time of it. It was no more challenging than when I went through MD-11 training in 1991, at age 34, even though the A350 was a much more difficult training program. I had no decline in my learning ability in 30 years, and aced the very challenging program without any trouble. If I can maintain my ability to easily learn complex tasks into my mid-60’s, hell, anyone can.

To answer the question: For some it might be age 30, or 40, or 50, etc, etc. However, everyone is different. Some people are still extremely lucid and able to learn well into their 90’s. Don’t assume. Don’t count yourself out at any age. Don’t be prejudiced against older people and sell them short, because many of them are still as sharp or even sharper than you. Treat all people well, especially older people, because in the blink of an eye you’re going to be one of them, and you’re going to love it when someone treats YOU with dignity and a little bit of respect.

Steve Bazer - Airbus A350 Captain at Delta Air Lines

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19/12/2021

French Bee receives 480 seater A350-1000

Long haul - budget airline French Bee received its first A350-1000 with 480 seats making it the world's most economic airliner in terms of per-seat cost. The real question is, can French Bee fulfil the load factors consistently to make it profitable? Will there be enough passengers who are willing to sacrifice comfort for money in long haul flights?

05/12/2021

SriLankan Airlines Fleet with age

08/11/2021

Historic dual take-off from the sky

Airlines British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have marked the return of US travel with a rare twin take-off from Heathrow Airport on Monday morning.The BA and...

08/11/2021

The story behind Heathrow’s parallel runway take-off

"Working with the airline flight planning teams, we started by looking at the required take off time and working back from there. How long would passengers need to get through security? When would the baggage and catering be loaded? Which gates were being used? What was the likely taxi time? The weight of each aircraft? What runway entry point would work best? All those factors had to be calculated and taken into account."

Read the full article on NATS blog

Earlier this morning, we celebrated the reopening of the US to UK travellers with a spectacular synchronised, parallel take-off from Heathrow, something that’s extremely rare. But why exactly is it so uncommon, and what does it take operationally to pull it off?

08/11/2021

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic perform a simultaneous take-off from London Heathrow (LHR) to depart for New York (JFK), celebrating the US borders' re-opening for double-vaccinated travellers.

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01/11/2021

Emirates' colourful A380 "Dubai Expo Livery" is en route to Milan (MXP).

1-Nov-2021

Go track it: https://www.flightradar24.com/UAE91/29b57f74