Economy Class & Beyond

Air India selects Thales AVANT IFE System for its long haul fleet

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Earlier this week, Air India took some big steps forward in its inflight entertainment offering with them selecting Thales AVANT Up for its widebody fleet. Thales Avant for Air India - Image, Thales As part of the tender, Thales will upgrade and retrofit Air India’s current fleet of 40 Boeing 777s and 787s with its AVANT Up system, starting in 2024 and continuing … [Read more...]

Singapore Air Show Daily Digest: Day 3 – More order and understandings for ATR and Airbus

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Day 3 of the Singapore Air Show has been done and dusted, with a couple more announcements from the show. Let us dive in. ATR Aircraft We'll start with ATR Aircraft, with Air Tahiti planning to increase its ATR72-600 fleet, to its fleet of 10. These will be used to provide connectivity in French Polynesia's communities. Airbus Vietjet came out of the traps today, as it … [Read more...]

Qatar Airways to return to Lisbon, Portugal

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Qatar Airways is growing its network, with the airline planning to return to Lisbon, Portugal as part of its 2024 network expansion. The airline will serve Lisbon with four times a week flights. commencing on Thursday, 6 June 2024. The planned operation is as follows: QR341 DEPART DOH 14:25 ARRIVE LIS 20:25 QR342 DEPART LIS 22:00 ARRIVE DOH 07:30+1 Commences 6th June … [Read more...]

Budapest Airport increases connectivity, with further Ryanair flights

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Budapest Airport is gaining extra connectivity, thanks to Ryanair. The airport is gaining extra routes, including : Milan - Daily from 31st March Tirana - Three times a week from 1st April Faro - Twice weekly from 2nd June Frankfurt-Hahn - Twice weekly from 2nd June Trieste - Twice weekly from 2nd June Skiathos - Twice weekly from 3rd June In … [Read more...]

Singapore Air Show Daily Digest – Day 2: Enter Airbus

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Day 2 of the Singapore Air Show has been and gone. Two commercial airplane announcements - one order, and one parts agreement Airbus Airbus finally came out of the traps with an order from Starlux Airlines. STARLUX Airlines of Taiwan has placed a firm order for five A350F freighters and three more A330neo widebody aircraft. The agreement was signed at the Singapore … [Read more...]

Emirates works on its South American Network with a new route to Bogata

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Emirates is planning to launch a new service to Bogota, Colombia... but in a slightly different way than usual. Emirates Boeing 777-300ER - Image, Economy Class and Beyond  The airline is planning to operate the route via the USA - so it will stop at Miami International Airport both ways on its journey to and from Bogota.  It will be the fourth South American … [Read more...]

Breeze Airways to add an additional 10 Airbus A220 aircraft to its fleet

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Breeze Airways continues to expand, with the airline disclosing it is to add a further 10 Airbus A220 aircraft to its fleet. The airline will order 10 additional A220-300 aircraft (the larger variant of the Airbus A220), bringing the airline’s total firm order for the aircraft type to 90 of the type. This order will make Breeze the third largest customer worldwide for … [Read more...]

Singapore Air Show Daily Digest: Day 1 – Boeing and COMAC step forward

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Day 1 of the Singapore Air Show has flown by, so it's time to see who's been attracting orders and have got their celebratory bits of paper out. ATR Aircraft ATR Aircraft kicked off the pre-show with a delivery of an ATR72-600 via Nordic Aviation Captial to Silk Avia of Ubzebistan, making them the first Central Asia ATR operator. In addition, Maldivian Airways has … [Read more...]