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Wizz Air is further expanding its route network at Hamburg Airport and has launched two new direct connections to Eastern Europe. The inaugural flight to the Moldovan capital, Chișinău, took off this morning. The premiere of the connection to Tuzla, Bosnia, will follow on December 14th. Both routes will operate year-round.
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has received approval from the Chinese government to deliver 120 aircraft already on order. The company signed a General Terms of Agreement (GTA) in Beijing, which allows Airbus to deliver aircraft from its existing order backlog to Chinese customers. This type of GTA agreement is standard practice in the industry.
The two giants of civil aviation, Boeing and Airbus, have formalized the division of the core business units of supplier Spirit AeroSystems in a far-reaching and historic transaction. The acquisitions, each confirmed in separate announcements on December 8, 2025, end Spirit AeroSystems' existence as an independent, diversified supplier of
The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg (OLG Hamburg) issued a ruling on December 5th in favor of Ryanair. The court prohibited the passenger rights service provider Flightright from claiming that customers encounter "hurdles" when contacting the airline's customer service. Furthermore, Flightright was ordered to remain open and
Hamburg Airport is undergoing significant changes at the management level. At the end of 2025, the airport appointed three experienced executives to new positions of responsibility. These personnel restructurings affect the key areas of aviation, real estate management, and corporate development, and are intended to strengthen the management structure of the North German hub for the coming years. The appointments
European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has been forced to revise its commercial delivery targets for 2025 due to a serious quality issue with supplier parts. A shortage of fuselage segments, requiring inspections of hundreds of aircraft, has severely disrupted production and delivery operations. In a significant setback for the company on March 3,
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus faces a dual challenge towards the end of 2025, affecting both production quality and the critical software systems of its best-selling A320 family. Just days after a global fleet-wide campaign was launched to address a software vulnerability in the flight control systems, reports emerged...
An estimated 6.000 aircraft of the globally widespread Airbus A320 family required an urgent software update following a safety-related incident. At the end of October, it was discovered that intense sunlight at cruising altitude could damage data essential for controlling the elevator on one aircraft. The affected jet had to be grounded due to a problem with the flight control system.
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has released an update on the implementation of an urgent safety directive for part of its A320 family. Following an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) issued on November 28, which mandated immediate precautionary measures, the vast majority of the approximately 6.000 potentially affected aircraft have received the necessary modifications. The AOT was reportedly
Airbus is resolutely pushing ahead with the development and certification of its new A350F wide-body freighter, relying on a stricter certification process than for previous passenger aircraft. The European aircraft manufacturer has announced that the A350F will be certified according to the latest and significantly more comprehensive guidelines of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
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