ATR Aircraft News

In an attempt to prune costs and navigate itself out of the turbulence in the Indian aviation sector, the nation's largest private airline, Jet Airways, has decided to terminate contracts of 72 of its high-cost expatriate pilots.

An Air Contractors Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-200 on behalf of Aer Arann on behalf of Aer Lingus, registration EI-SLN performing flight RE-3252/EI-3252 from Dublin to Edinburgh,SC , had departed Dublin's runway 10 and was already enroute in contact with Scottish Control over the Irish Sea about 25 minutes into the flight when the crew ... (more)

Brazil's Passaredo Linhas Areas took delivery of its first ATR 72-600 via an Air Lease Corp.

Pratt & Whitney Canada is a United Technologies Corp. company . "We are experiencing excellent growth in the regional turboprop market and believe demand will only increase," said Richard Dussault, Vice-President, Marketing, P&WC. "Deliveries of turboprops have grown steadily at P&WC since 2003.

An Air Dolomiti Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-500, registration I-ADCD performing flight EN-1912 from Munich to Venice with 58 passengers and 4 crew, was climbing through about FL130 when the crew reported smoke in the cockpit and decided to return to Munich.

AFI KLM E&M has won multiple engineering projects from ILFC. Modification projects include work for Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft such as cabin, avionics and material management.

A Cimber Sterling Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-500, registration OY-CIO performing positioning flight QI-9501 from Billund to Copenhagen with just the two pilots on board, was climbing out of Billung about 10 minutes into the flight when the crew received a "DUCT OVHT" caution message and shut air conditioning system #2 down.

For this, the airline would be requiring jets such as Boeing 737-400, currently being used by MAS.

In order to accelerate a process of the final assembly of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft Sukhoi Civil Aircraft and Aviastar-SP, a United Aircraft Corporation production facility based in Ulyanovsk, concluded the cooperation agreement on interior installation.

The president of Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, has awarded CEO of Transaero, Olga Pleshakova, with the state decoration in Kremlin on May 3rd 2012, the airline's press-service reports.

The 72-seat ATR 72-600 was handed over to Spanish airline Air Nostrum on 3 May at a ceremony in Toulouse, France.

Russian Ministry of Defense intends to reconstruct the existing airfield system in the areas of military aviation's home stations base airfields, airfields used for provision of aircraft testing and aprons for military aviation units, by 2020, RBC reports with reference to the official representative of the Ministry, Colonel Vladimir Drik.

THE shamrock has landed. A new Bournemouth-Dublin air service by Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus was launched yesterday giving local travellers and the business community a boost.

WestJet Airlines Ltd, Canada's No. 2 airline, has selected Bombardier Inc to supply up to 45 aircraft for a regional carrier it is setting up to chip away at its struggling competitor Air Canada.

WestJet Airlines Ltd. has selected the Bombardier Q400 to be the turboprop for its new regional carrier, choosing the Canadian-built plane over the French-Italian ATR 72-600. The Calgary-based airline will order up to 45 of the Q400s over the next six years, WestJet chief executive officer Gregg Saretsky said Tuesday.

Denmark's Nordic Aviation Capital has secured financing from Deutsche Bank and KfW IPEX-Bank for the acquisition of five ATR 72-600 aircraft.

A Thai air force plane lies after skidding off the runway while landing at Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka yesterday.Photo: STAR An aircraft of Royal Thai Air Force carrying 15 officials yesterday skidded off the runway while landing at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport injuring three Thai officers.

Two crew members were injured when a Thai Air Force plane lost control ad skidded from the runway while landing at an airport in Bangladesh Monday morning, the Air Force spokesman said.

A Royal Thai Air Force plane, carrying 15 people on board, skidded off the runway at Dhaka airport on Monday morning, injuring at least three, an official said.

The new ATR-72-500 aircraft of UTair-Ukraine landed at Kiev Zhuliany International airport on April 25th 23:32 Kiev time.