Avro RJ100 OO-DWB (msn E3315) of Delta Air Transport (DAT) ran off the runway onto the grass after landing at Newcastle on 25 September on the afternoon SABENA service from Brussels. The airport was closed for ninety minutes, until OO-DWB was able to taxi back onto the runway and onto […]
BAE Systems planned to display an Avro RJ100 at the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) convention in New Orleans, but the closure of US airspace as a result of the attacks on 11 September resulted in the convention being cancelled. The appropriately-registered RJ100 G-NBAA (msn E3386) had been configured to display the large area […]
Air Canada announced on 26 September that its regional airlines, AirBC and Air Nova, are to ground all ten of the BAe 146-200s they operate. The move is part of a retrenchement in the face of the drastic demand shortfall that followed the 11 September events. As part of the […]
The German Federal Cartels Office agreed to let Lufthansa acquire a 49% stake in Eurowings. Lufthansa acquired 24.9% of Eurowings in January, but the Cartels Office had blocked it from increasing its stake on the grounds that it would exacerbate Lufthansa’s already dominant position in Germany’s domestic market. In August, […]
Manx was all but grounded on 25 September after third party insurance cover for war and acts of terrorism was withdrawn in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks. Commercial insurance companies cancelled the cover to all airlines effective midnight on 24 September. New policies were offered, but with […]
The first Avro RJX-100 took to the air for the first time on 23 September. RJX-100 msn G-IRJX (msn E3378) took off at 15:20 local time from Woodford, with Test Pilots Bill Ovel and Pete Lofts at the controls. The crew also included Flight Test Engineers Derek Ferguson and Paul […]
The restructuring plan announced by Swiss national airline Swissair calls the airline’s shorthaul flights to be integrated with those of regional subsidiary Crossair, in a new operating entity dubbed Swiss Air Lines. The new entity, headed by current Crossair chief executive André Dosé, will build on Crossair’s approach of providing […]
Like almost all other US airlines, BAe 146 operator Air Wisconsin (operating as United Express) and Avro RJ operator Mesaba (operating as Northwest Jet Airlink) have announced cuts to their flight schedules. The moves come in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks, which resulted in an unprecedented two-day […]
When Newcastle-based Gill Airways ceased operations on 20 September, British European was quick to jump into the breach. Within hours of Gill’s shutdown, a British European BAe 146 took over the defunct airline’s route from Newcastle to Belfast City. On the next day, another BAe 146 arrived to operate the […]
BAE Systems Aircraft Services Group announced an order for an Avro RJX flight simulator for its Customer Training Centre at Woodford. The simulator is to be built by the NLX Corporation of Virginia. The visual system will be provided by Evans & Sutherland, using Panorama display optics from SEOS Displays […]