The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) revealed on Monday that the UAE is sending aviation fuel to the areas controlled by the renegade General Khalifa Haftar’s forces. In a statement, the NOC denounced the illegal import of aviation fuel from the UAE carried out by the forces of the eastern region, controlled by Haftar, over the previous days. The NOC said in a statement that it had informed the United […]
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Program Executive Office, Aviation announces the Project Agreement holders for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR). The Army’s PEO Aviation, working with Army Contracting Command, Redstone recently awarded the FLRAA CD&RR project agreements under the Aviation and Missile Technology Consortium Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to Bell Textron Incorporated, and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. These competitively awarded OTA agreements consist of […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Two years ago, India made headlines for having the highest number of female pilots in the world, at 13 percent. While the country has earned accolades for this achievement, there are also women who work behind the scenes helping passengers embark upon a safe journey. By taking on unconventional careers in India’s aviation sector, these three ladies have been lauded for breaking through […]
Airlines have canceled more than 200,000 flights as Covid-19 is nearing pandemic status. More than 92,300 people have been infected by the virus, which has killed about 3,100 people. Many of the cases are in China, but recent cases ex-China have been surging, especially in South Korea, Iran, Italy, Japan, and in many other countries across Europe. Airlines have spent the last month canceling flights to China – […]
Indonesia’s most active volcano, Mount Merapi, erupted without warning early on Tuesday for the second time in a month, sending column of ash 6km (20,000ft) into the sky and blanketing nearby communities with ash and dust. Authorities issued the highest aviation alert, telling pilots to avoid the area, while also establishing a 3km (1.8-mile) exclusion zone established around the volcano, amid the threat of lava and […]
Middle East 19:24 GMT 01.03.2020(updated 20:32 GMT 01.03.2020) Get short URL As tensions run high in Syria’s Idlib amid Thursday’s spike in hostilities, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Sunday that the “Turkish regime’s terrorist forces” downed two aircraft – thought to be fighter jets – belonging to the Damascus forces. The Russian Defence Ministry announced on Sunday that it could no longer guarantee the […]
Extended flight cancellations to China amid the coronavirus outbreak could cut global carriers’ revenues up to $5 billion in the first quarter, according to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) estimates. At least 70 airlines have canceled all international flights in and out of China and 50 others have reduced their operations in the country as the epidemic continues to spread, the agency said in a […]