Siddharth Ganesh

DALLAS — Swedish start-up Heart Aerospace is one of the few out there paving the way to produce an electric aircraft that could actually fit into the airline commuter market. The journey that began in 2018 is currently at the stage of securing suppliers to put the airplane's anatomy together.

DALLAS — Old, used airliner airframes still hold the charm of a mighty machine and don't fail to impress many. Over the years, aircraft fuselages, have made their way into ordinary life in the form of restaurants, boutique hotels, and Airbnb's. One that remains rather fascinating is the Boeing 747 which was put into sea in Bahrain to serve as a designated diving site. So if you really want to admire the queen of the skies in this case, you would have to dive a good 20 meters deep. Photo: Dive Bahrain Pulling It Off Diving is rather popular in Bahrain given its rich variety of reefs and oyster beds spanning a great deal. To add to it, DiveBahrain, the official dive park in Bahrain, decided to up the notch and place a Boeing 747 as an underwater marvel. DiveBahrain occupies an area of 100,000 square meters. In regard to…

DALLAS — Swiss leisure carrier Edelweiss (WK), after operating the four-engined A340-300s, has confirmed its plans to bring in six Airbus A350-900 jets to keep the fleet fresh and modern for the future. From summer 2025 onward, the XWBs will join the Zurich-based carrier, progressively replacing the quad jets, and will take over the long-haul network stretching to North, Central, and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian Ocean region.

DALLAS — Klasjet is yet another carrier that has joined the growing list of airlines offering aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance services, simply known as ACMI. The Lithuania-based charter airline ventured into ACMI earlier this year and already has a fleet of five Boeing 737 NGs for the above segment. Klasjet, founded in 2013, was set up with the objective of providing VIP charter services with a fleet of modified Boeing 737 classics, but given the growing demand for ACMI, the carrier has diversified its business and is looking at a fleet growth of up to fifty aircraft over a five-year period. The carrier belongs to the aviation conglomerate Avia Solutions Group, which owns a variety of aviation-based services from multiple ACMI airlines, including MRO facilities, consultancy, and flight training services. Justinas Bulka, CEO of Klasjet, talks to Airways correspondent Siddharth Ganesh about the growing demand for its VIP charter…

DALLAS — The Saint Martin site in the southwest corner of Toulouse Airport is where you'd find one of Airbus' sites that also hosts ATR's Final Assembly Line, simply known as FAL. The specific hangar that houses ATR has witnessed a rich and glorious past, under its roofs, several thousand aircraft have been manufactured, starting with the Dewoitine fighter plane that was used during the Second World War, followed by the introduction of commercial aircraft like the Armagnac, the iconic Caravelle, the Transall and finally the ATR. The manufacturer is the result of a joint venture between Airbus and Leonardo (present-day) and was founded in 1981. Ever since, ATR has been crafting single-aisle turboprop aircraft, with its very first type being the ATR 42-200, which took to the skies three years later. In time, a stretched version of its initial product was brought from paper to metal, and in 1998, the…

DALLAS — Alaska Airlines (AS) returns to an all-Boeing fleet as it made its final leap in getting rid of its last Airbus aircraft, ten A321neos that joined the fleet between 2018 and 2019. These ten jets now have a new owner, American Airlines (AA). During the AS and Virgin America (VA) merger, a number of Airbus aircraft were passed on, but it was clear to the Alaskan carrier that these planes would not serve in the long run. It was in 2016, when AS took over Virgin America for US$2.6 billion, due to strong underlying reasons, including a good way to expand their networks with a key focus on the West Coast, lowered ticket prices, and overall operation efficiency. Virgin America's fleet of 60 Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft was transferred. However, these Airbus aircraft have exited the AS fleet in recent years, with the ten leased A321s being the last of the…

DALLAS — The “Palma Beach Hotel” advertisement is the first thing you'll notice on this mysterious IL-76 that, for decades, has sat abandoned by the E11 expressway in Umm Al Quwain, UAE.

DALLAS — Archer Aviation is set to enter the Indian market after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with India's InterGlobe Enterprises through a finance option for up to 200 Midnight eVTOLs. Services are expected to begin in 2026 and the focus areas of deployment are New Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. Archer's CEO, Adam Goldstein, commented on the new signing,

DALLAS — Malaysia Airlines (MH) received its very first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, which was followed by a ceremony held at Hangar 5 at the MAB Engineering Complex in Kuala Lumpur.

DALLAS — Andolujet, the wholly owned low-cost subsidiary of Turkish Airlines (TK), will commence commercial operations in March 2024 under the new name, AJet Air Transportation.