Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) has gone one step ahead in its sustainability initiative. The airport has partnered with local environmental firm Ecotone Renewables to add a new system that will transform uneaten food into fertilizer thus reducing waste. This...
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All Nippon Airways expands the use of Sabre Slot Manager for domestic operations
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has expanded the use of its Sabre Slot Manager to include domestic operations along with international operations. “We’ve steadily relaunched our international routes post pandemic, using Sabre technology to streamline our slot management...
SAUDIA selects Panasonic’s Astrova for installation on 30 jets
Saudi Arabian Airlines (SAUDIA) has selected Panasonic Avionics Corporation’s latest Inflight entertainment solution, Astrova foe its 3o aircraft fleet, 12 Airbus A330s and 18 Boeing 777s. Every passenger will have up to 100 W of direct current power, via USB-C, at...
Kuehne+Nagel acquires Morgan Cargo
Kuehne+Nagel (K+N) has acquired Morgan Cargo complimenting K+N’s perishables logistics service offering, while improving connectivity for customers to and from South Africa, the UK and Kenya, which includes state-of-the-art cold chain facilities. Morgan Cargo is a...
United Airline selects Panasonic’s Astrova on its new B787 and A321XLR fleet
United Airlines has become the first airline in Americas to install Panasonic’s new Astrova in-flight engagement solution (IFE). United plans to install Astrova on select new Boeing 787 and Airbus A321XLR aircraft beginning in 2025. The new agreement is an upgrade...
Japan Airlines to upgrade Boeing fleet with Intelsat’s latest 2Ku inflight connectivity solution
Japan Airlines (JAL) has selected Intelsat’s latest 2Ku inflight connectivity solution to upgrade its fleet of about 50 Boeing 737s and 767s “We value the trust that JAL has placed in Intelsat throughout our 10-year relationship,” said Dave Bijur, senior vice...
Boeing opens new distribution service centre in Poland
Boeing recently inaugurated its new Distribution Service site at Panattoni Park Rzeszów Airport III, Poland. The facility more than doubles the space for storing aircraft parts compared to the prior location and expands Boeing’s presence in Poland’s Aviation Valley....
Teesside becomes UK’s first airport to sign Green Aviation Fuel agreement with AFI-KLM
Teesside Airport has gone one step ahead in sustainability and become the UK’s first airport to partner with Air France-KLM for the Green Aviation Fuel Programme to boost the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The deal will focus on accelerating the production,...
ST Engineering receives EASA certification for cabin lavatory solutions
Marking a major milestone, the commercial aerospace business of ST Engineering received the Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) for its cabin lavatory solution. The cabin lavatory solution named ACCESS is currently...
Singapore Airlines announce free Wi-Fi across for all passengers
Singapore Airlines is all set to offer complimentary and unlimited inflight Wi-Fi access to all passengers across all classes starting July 2023. The program will include its entire fleet across all its network. The only requirement to access the free inflight Wi-Fi...
SAS opens bookings for first planned eVTOL flight in 2028
Scandinavian airlines SAS has is opening reservations on June 2, 2023, for its first planned electric flight. But the inaugural flight will take to skies only in 2028. The airline has not revealed other details like flight schedule or but one can predict that it will...
Safran Nacelles delivers first LEAP 1-A engine to Airbus from its Tianjin site
Safran Nacelles delivered the first LEAP 1-A propulsion systems, one of the two engine options available for use on A320neo, to Airbus from its new site in Tianjin, China. After Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany), and Mobile (Alabama, USA), Tianjin serves as...