It has been a positive day for the airline industry as Air New Zealand was amongst Air China and Australian budget carrier Virgin Blue to report a recovery in profits. Air China announced first quarterly profits were up 60 per cent on 2009 when the economic down turn started to show in decreasing passenger numbers.
Whilst these results are positive many airlines remain cautious, which reflects the general mood of economists throughout the world.
3rd Aug – Oxford to Marseille – Embraer Phenom Jet – 4 pax
4th Aug – Marseille to Marrakesh – 04/08/10 – Hawker 900 XP – 8 pax
4th Aug – Altenrhein to Manchester – 04/08/10 – Citation Exective Jet CJ2 – 6 pax
6th Aug – Cardiff to Angouleme – B200 King Air 8 pax
7th Aug – Chambery to UK – B200 King Air 8 pax
Hawker 900XP executive jet
Phenom Embraer Executive Jet
Ibiza (LEIB / IBZ) To London Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)
25 Jul 2010 – 25 Jul 2010
Rome Ciampino (LIRA / CIA) To Nice (LFMN / NCE)
28 Jul 2010 – 28 Jul 2010
Budapest (LHBP / BUD) To Bern (LSZB / BRN)
29 Jul 2010 – 29 Jul 2010
London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS) To Mahón (LEMH / MAH)
Empty leg flight – 31 Jul 2010 – 31 Jul 2010
Jersey (EGJJ / JER) To London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS)
31 Jul 2010 – 31 Jul 2010
London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS) To Lydd (EGMD / LYX)
5 Aug 2010 at 08:00
Lydd (EGMD / LYX) To London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS)
6 Aug 2010 at 18:00
All these flights will use a twin engine jet Cessna Citation Mustang which has a seating capacity of 4 passenger, plus 2 pilots.
Twin jet - Cessna Citation Mustang
Empty Leg Flights 25July 5Aug
Airbus and Boeing have travelled to the Farnborough air show with backlogs still around historic highs, regardless of the impressive fall in new net orders that has followed the credit crunch.
According to Flightglobal’s analysis the leading ACAS fleet database shows that as the significant ramp-up in orders are known to have collapsed within the last 24 months, by the end of June both manufacturers still held a combined backlog of 6,555 aircraft (4,165 narrowbodies and 2,390 widebodies).
It is down a relatively modest 10% from the height of two years ago, when numbers hit 7,299, nonetheless it is still in excess of twice the volume on the height of the last boom period a decade ago.
Airbus, boosted by the Emirates order for 32 A380s, goes to the show with its widebody backlog at an historic high.
The United Airlines order for 25 Boeing 787s and 25 Airbus A350s served to push the net order intake for widebodies to 122 in the first half of 2010.
A year ago, in the wake of the Paris air show, the first half net orders for widebodies were standing at a negative 34 after having a wave of cancellations.
Narrowbody net orders placed have still to demonstrate any signs of recovering immediately after their dramatic slide of the past three years, standing at just 91 new net orders for the first half of 2010, below the 150 posted at the half-way stage last year.
All these flights will use a twin engine jet Cessna Citation Mustang which has a seating capacity of 4 passenger, plus 2 pilots.
Inverness (EGPE / INV) To London Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)
18 Jul 2010 – 18 Jul 2010
Milan Linate (LIML / LIN) To London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS)
19 Jul 2010 – 19 Jul 2010
Figari (LFKF / FSC) To London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS)
19 Jul 2010 – 19 Jul 2010
Newcastle (EGNT / NCL) To London Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)
19 Jul 2010 – 19 Jul 2010
Hannover (EDDV / HAJ) To London Farnborough (EGLF / FAB)
21 Jul 2010 – 21 Jul 2010
London Farnborough (EGLF / FAB) To Dundee (EGPN / DND)
23 Jul 2010 – 23 Jul 2010
London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS) To Jersey (EGJJ / JER)
24 Jul 2010 – 24 Jul 2010
Geneva (LSGG / GVA) To Cagliari (LIEE / CAG)
24 Jul 2010 – 24 Jul 2010
London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS) To Figari (LFKF / FSC)
24 Jul 2010 – 24 Jul 2010
London Farnborough (EGLF / FAB) To Inverness (EGPE / INV)
24 Jul 2010 – 24 Jul 2010
Mahón (LEMH / MAH) To London Blackbushe (EGLK / BBS)
25 Jul 2010 – 25 Jul 2010
Twin jet - Cessna Citation Mustang
Click to view: Empty leg flights From 18 July To 25 July 2010
The 787 Dreamliner is Boeing’s most innovative plane yet, not least because it is the first airplane which has a fuselage made out of composite material rather than aluminium sheets riveted together. It’ll be light and fast – and its Rolls-Royce and General Electric engines will emit 20% less co2 than similarly-sized planes do today, Boeing insists.
Boeing 787 Becomes The First Composite Airliner To Fly
Following its first flight in December 2009, half a dozen Dreamliners have been criss-crossing the skies over Seattle, conducting continual flight tests. This weekend, the aircraft is set to land at Farnborough in England for its first appearance at the Farnborough air show where it is anticipated to be the main attraction.
Manufacturing any aircraft is definitely an incredibly manual process that requires great skills – a great deal more so than car production, in particular, where robots are utilized extensively. But in the case of the Dreamliner, the challenges are greater than normal.
The laborers here have had to familiarise themselves with numerous new technologies, ranging from complicated electrics to new materials. They’ve also had to have difficulty both with poor logistics management and with parts shortages, resulting from Boeing’s bungled effort to outsource much of the job to external suppliers. Probably the biggest issue they have had is getting their suppliers and supply network to be on the same page,thereby making sure that the work carried out by the suppliers is done on time.
Unfortunately for Boeing despite all their efforts to solve these issues for months now, the problems are certainly not going away. In June, Boeing found that tail parts on some Dreamliners hadn’t been properly fitted, a mistake which could take eight days per airplane to fix. As such a lot of of the 787 was outsourced, there might be other components embedded deep in the plane that might need to be checked too. Boeing simply cannot keep having issues like this appear every couple of months – the cost of production slow-downs and even pauses will cut into the programs profitability.
Ryanair has got itself in hot water when it ran adverts depicting Sir Stelios as Pinocchio and suggesting he was lying about Easyjet’s punctuality. The “Pinocchio” adverts over which Sir Stelios was taking legal action were published in the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian in January and February. In the ad they mentioned him as “Easyjet’s – Mr Late Again” and called on him to “stop hiding the truth” about Easyjet’s on-time performance. 
Mr O’Leary of Ryanair was forced to apologise, saying Sir Stelios was not personally accountable for Easyjet not publishing weekly information on their on-time performance. In response Sir Stelios dedicated the victory to everyone “who have suffered verbal abuse at the hands of O’Leary”. In a libel suit that was eventually settled out of court, with Sir Stelios accepting £50,100 in damages, which he will donate to his philanthropic foundation.
For some time now the rivalry between the two low-cost airliners has often been centred around advertising. In the past both carriers have referred one another to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over various ad campaigns. Only this Wednesday Ryanair was punished by the ASA for misleading customers with low fare offers, following a complaint from Easyjet.
Two empty leg flights available. The aircraft type is a Avro Business Jet with a capacity of 46 passengers.
28th JULY 2010 Portugal (Faro) To United Kingdom [FAO-UK]
02nd AUGUST 2010 United Kingdom To Portugal (Faro) [UK-FAO]
Avro Business Jet
Avro Business Jet interior
Empty leg flights 13 July - 17 July 2010
All these flights will use a twin engine jet Cessna Citation Mustang which has a seating capacity of 4 passenger, plus 2 pilots.
Twin jet - Cessna Citation Mustang
London Blackbushe (EGLK/BBS) - Milan Linate (LIML/LIN)
Fri 9 July, departure before 10:30 local
Copenhagen Kastrup (EKCH/CPH) - London Blackbushe (EGLK/BBS)
Fri 9 July, departing after 12:15 local
Cork (EICK/ORK) - London Blackbushe (EGLK/BBS)
Fri 9 July, departing after 15:40 local
Barcelona (LEBL/BCN) - London Blackbushe (EGLK/BBS)
Fri 9 July, after 17:00 local, or Sat 10 July, all day
London Blackbushe (EGLK/BBS) - Lille (LFQQ/LIL)
Sat 10 July, departure at 08:00 local
Valcencia (LEVC/VLC) - Figari (LFKF/FSC)
Sat 10 July, afternoon, or Sun 11 July, all day
Palma de Mallorca (LEPA/PMI) - Barcelona (LEBL/BCN)
Sun 11 July, departing 15:00 local
London Blackbushe (EGLK/BBS) - Sylt-Westerland (EDXW/GWT)
Sun 11 July, departing 09:00 local
London Farnborough (EGLF/FAB) - Norwich (EGSH/NWI)
Mon 12 July, departing 15:30 local
Milan Linate (LIML/LIN) - Nice (LFMN/NCE)
Mon 12 July, departing 11:10 local
Routings to nearby airports will be considered, let us know your requirements.