Finnish airline Finnair is launching daily flights to Tokyo in 2010. Finnair expands its Asian markets again like they have done in many years now. It may have been Finnair’s save as many other airlines are struggling with financial problems, Finnair did the right thing and took all Asian flights to itself.Finns are travelling to Asia more and more nowadays and therefore Finnair have many many flights to Asia. That is the reason they are getting Airbusses (A350) to long range routes and MD’s are going to be history.I know one pilot myself from Finnair and he said that the company is now very wanted in a pilot markets. He said also that he is very lucky to have a chance to educate him to the Airbus series. He is now a Embraer pilot,... [Read more]

Well, part of the plane anyway. There is a final assembly line in Tiajin and it will be open from today officially. All parts are transported from Europe to China via Hamburg according to Flightglobal.com. Chinese are coming to aviation markets too like they have done it in many industrial scenes like paper production and clothing. I guess Airbus have noticed that the labor works there many times cheaper than in western countries. [Read more]

Sept. 11, 2008 VISTA, California — Joystick Technologies, LLC. dba CH Products announces today the latest release in their controller product line. From LA to Sydney, over torrential bodies of water and massive terrain, through farmlands and wetlands, the CH Flight Sim Yoke has been a constant companion in the countless journeys you’ve taken for many, many years. It’s time to finally retire that indestructible co-pilot now and say hello to a new friend. CH Products is proud to release the latest and greatest in Flight Simulation hardware with the release of its new high end yoke, the new CH Eclipse !! Built with the same high end components you find in our industrial products, the CH Eclipse brings value added functions to... [Read more]

Even as the domestic aviation sector is undergoing a financial crisis, world’s top plane makers are optimistic about the Indian civil aircraft market. Almost all top airplane makers, such as Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, Gulfstream and Dassault, are expected to showcase their new products in Hyderabad next month. Eurocopter, Bell Helicopter and Cessna are also going to unveil some of their flying machines in the country’s first civil aviation airshow in the IT city.   Rest of this is here [Read more]

Captain Scott Oltman, 54, and First Officer Dillon Shepley, 24, dozed off during the brief midmorning flight from Honolulu to Hilo, on Hawaii. The Federal Aviation Administration suspended the men for the careless and reckless operation of an aircraft. Both were fired by Hawaii’s Go airlines, operator of the February 13 flight which was carrying 40 passengers. Mr Oltman was also cited for failing to maintain radio communications and banned from flying for 60 days. Mr Shepley had his flying licence suspended for 45 days. Both completed their suspensions earlier this month but an FAA spokesman said he did not know if they were flying again with a different airline. You can find the rest of the story here [Read more]