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British Airways: Bologna and London are now even closer

From now Bologna and Emilia Romagna are connected with one of the most important hubs in Europe, London Heathrow Airport. The daily flight will be operated by British Airways and offer a hand More »

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Alitalia: with Wind Jet is increasingly pointing to the low cost

Alitalia, in line with what is currently happening with the major European carriers, segment focuses on low-cost and acquires Wind Jet, airline based in Catania, founded in 2003 dal pattern of More »

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Ryanair: Terror on board over the Alps

Moments of intense fear of a Ryanair flight took off from Bergamo and directed in Nottingham, in England. A few minutes after takeoff the flight has decreased considerably due to depressurization and More »

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A350 XWB: ready to enter service in the test bed of the truck

The test for the main gear and one placed under the nose of the Airbus A350 is ready to enter service at the Airbus site in Filton , in the United More »

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Calabria: Reggio, and Crotone airports remain open

“The Calabria region has a regional plan with respect to the new classification of national airports illustrated recently by the Minister Passera”. He said the President of the Region, Giuseppe Scopelliti , in the course of More »

Eurocopter delivers his second EC225 helicopter

Eurocopter delivered an EC225 helicopter in the second Airtelis, a French public utility wholly owned by RTE. This follows the first delivery, occurred at the end of last year.
RTE is specialized in surveillance operations, maintenance and construction of high and very high voltage power lines through the use of helicopters. To date the company has made a total of over 250.000 flight hours - equivalent to about 30 years of uninterrupted flight.
In addition to these transactions on power lines, the EC225 is able to carry external loads, including a water tank of the capacity of 4.000 liters of water, fire for missions.

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The Eurocopter EC225 of the class to 11 tons, can carry loads of up to 4,5 tons for a wide variety of missions, such as maintenance and construction of overhead lines and to provide support during the construction of large infrastructure projects.

15 years of Star Alliance: greeting!

15 years ago, on this day, an event happened that changed forever the landscape of aviation. Five visionary and CEO, shared the same ideas took the bold decision to found the first multilateral airline alliance in history: The Star Alliance network. All carriers that have established - Air Canada, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, THAI e United – understood that with the increasing globalization, was growing more and more the need for international travel to an increasingly wide variety of destinations.

Since no company alone would never have been able to achieve this result, these five airlines decided to form the Star Alliance network, with the goal of becoming "the leading airline alliance worldwide to give importance to the international traveler".

In 15 years the Alliance has gone from being composed of five airlines offering with a total of 6.000 voli giornalieri verso 578 aeroporti in 106 paesi, al diventare undaily flights tocompagnie aeree che trasportano oltre 600 milioni di passeggeri operando 20.500daily flights too 1.293airports inn 190countriesi. 25 airlines carrying over 600 million passengers by operating 20.500 voli giornalieri verso 1.293 aeroporti in 190 paesi.

The Kazakh government will purchase from Eurocopter 20 multi-role EC725 helicopters

Kazakhstan has signed a letter of intent to buy 20 Eurocopter EC725 helicopters, a new major effort to purchase this aircraft, medium-tonnage. These aircraft, which will be assembled in Kazakhstan, will be used by the Ministry of Defence of the country in a wide range of missions.
The agreement, formalized on the occasion of Military KADEX-2012 held this month in Astana, further strengthens relations with Kazakhstan making a major operator and an industrial partner of Eurocopter helicopters. With the agreement of Kazakhstan also was equipped with a helicopter that is complementary all'EC145 Eurocopter, which the country has bought 45 specimens under a framework agreement which provided for the assembly within the country, Astana, by the joint venture 50/50 Eurocopter Kazakhstan Engineering.
"Thanks to the success achieved over time and its assembly dell'EC145 Astana, Eurocopter is proud to have strengthened its strategic partnership with the Republic of Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan Engineering. Based equally on a long-term and mutual trust, Our common goal is to create an industry in Kazakhstan helicopter sustainable, "said Olivier Lambert, Senior Vice President for Sales and Customer Relations di Eurocopter. "We are confident that the operational performance and unmatched versatility make the EC725 helicopter the best choice to meet the operational requirements of the 21 st Century".

We leave: you to fly back from Pontecagnano

pontecagnanoWell you, After many stops and starts, returns you to fly from Pontecagnano (Airport of the Amalfi Coast). After the last flight dated almost two months ago performed by 'Alitalia, Salerno will take off from two airlines for five different routes.

It will fly Saturday 16 June Thanks to the airline Air Dolomiti, which will connect the airport to Monaco Campania, in the heart of Germany. Another flight is direct to Verona, once a week (Saturday), gone with the morning and return in the afternoon.
From Salerno will be reopened flights to Milan (for accuracy Milan Malpensa) from 20 June to 2 September through Skybridge AirOps: the connection will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday with flights departing in the morning and return in the evening.

Still little Italy for Aviation Day Expo

After the successful first edition starts l’Italy Aviation Day Expò, international aviation event with a static display of aircraft and their components and related services to national and international industries.

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The event, planned for the 14-15-16 September 2012, wants to be a meeting point for the industry that can affect not only specialized but a broader audience of fans of flight and all civilian and military values ​​that our country has historically always been the best in the world.

The event " ITALY AVIATION DAY EXPO '"is not limited to indoor exhibition space but also an outdoor exhibition area next to a runway as we believe is essential to the static view of the aircraft that dynamic and emotional with a real air show.

AW169: on the first flight

AgustaWestland is pleased to announce that the first prototype of the AW169, Helicopter category equal to 4,5 ton, has successfully completed its first flight. The helicopter has performed as expected an assessment of the overall management of the helicopter and basic systems. The first prototype will be joined by two other aircraft by the end of the year and fourth in the prototype 2013.

Bruno Spagnolini, CEO of AgustaWestland, said: "The AW169 is the only new generation helicopter in its class to be launched in the last decades, so this is an important goal for continuous improvement of the AgustaWestland product range ". "Now we can offer the market the most advanced range of helicopters for each of Classes 4 a 8 tons ".

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