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har igjen vært involvert i flytrøbbel. Nå skal hendelsen etterforskes.
Det hele skal ha skjedd på Hawthorne flyplass i
nærheten av Los Angeles onsdag. Før Ford skulle ut på flytur, krysset han
feilaktig rullebanen hvor et annet fly var i ferd med å lande, skriver
nyhetsbyrået AP. – Han erkjente
umiddelbart feilen og unnskyldte til flygekontrolltjenesten, sier Fords agent
Ina Treciokas i en uttalelse til nyhetsbyrået. Grunnen til at han kjørte feil
skal ha vært at han hørte feil i beskjeden fra flytårnet. Det andre flyet skal
ha vært om lag 800 meter unna.
– Ingen ble skadet og det var aldri fare for en
kollisjon, sier agenten videre. Nå skal hendelsen
etterforskes.
«Indiana Jones»- og «Star Wars»-stjernen har
sertifikat både til småfly og helikopter. Formålet med flyturen skal ha vært å
opprettholde flykunnskapene.
Dette er ikke første gang Ford har havnet i
flytrøbbel. I 2017 fløy han like over et passasjerfly med 116 personer om bord
da han skulle lande sitt privatfly. Den gang slapp han unna med skrekken:
Finnair har netop offentliggjort et driftsunderskud på 680 millioner kroner i første kvartal, men underskuddet i andet kvartal forventes at blive i milliardklassen.
I lighed med andre flyselskaber er Finnair blevet hårdt ramt af coronakrisen. Selskabet har onsdag offentliggjort kvartalsrapporten for årets første kvartal, og det er dyster læsning.
Driftsunderskuddet blev på 91,1 millioner euro, eller hvad der svarer til 680 millioner kroner, mod et underskud i samme kvartal året før på 16,2 millioner euro. Underskuddet er forårsaget af et passagerfald på 15,6 procent fra 3,1 til 2,7 millioner passagerer som følge af COVID-19-pandemien.
Finnair lagde ellers stærkt ud efter årsskiftet med en trafikudvikling i januar, der var bedre end forventet. Herefter tog den negative udvikling fart i løbet af februar, og omsætningen faldt i kvartalet med 16 procent til 561 millioner euro, hvilket er det største fald nogensinde i selskabets historie.
“Coronavirus er et stort slag mod den globale luftfart og for Finnair. I det nuværende kvartal er størstedelen af vores flåde sat på jorden, og tabet for andet kvartal vil være betydeligt, cirka to millioner euro per dag, selv efter omkostningsreguleringerne,” siger koncernchef Topi Manner i en pressemeddelelse.
Forventer et betydeligt tab Finnair var et af de første flyselskaber, der mærkede effekten af coronavirus. Selskabet er nemlig stærkt eksponeret mod Kina, og allerede i slutningen af januar og starten af februar måtte Finnair suspendere de fem Kina-ruter frem til 29. marts, mens selskabet fortsat operationerne til Hong Kong i yderligere et par uger.
Alligevel var Finnair ikke bekymret for, hvordan dette ville påvirke selskabet finansielt i andet kvartal.
”Den direkte finansielle effekt af coronavirus i løbet af første kvartal 2020 vil være relativt begrænset, selvom alle fly bliver aflyst indtil slutningen af kvartalet,” skrev selskabet dengang i en meddelelse i starten af februar.
I dag er situationen en anden, og Finnair skriver i dag, at der vil blive tale om betydelige tab i 2020, men selskabet tør ikke sætte tal på før efter udgangen af andet kvartal. Men med et tab på 15 millioner kroner per dag i andet kvartal, vil selskabet efter første halvår have tabt i nærhededen af to milliarder kroner.
Ved udgangen af første kvartal var de likvide reserver inklusive en revolverende kreditfacilitet på 833 millioner euro, eller lidt mere end 6,2 milliarder kroner. Den finske regering har accepteret at stille et euro-lån på 600 millioner til rådighed, hvis det bliver nødvendigt.
Airlines have been increasing their average aircraft size
for years, but will small aircraft be better positioned when the
industry begins to emerge from the COVID-19 groundings?
John Slattery, President and CEO of Embraer Commercial
Aviation, joins Aviation Week editors in a free, interactive webinar to
discuss how the crisis could bolster demand for regional jets and
smaller narrowbodies at the expense of larger aircraft.
Norwegian Air Shuttle doesn't expect to fly again until April 2021.
Credit: Nigel Howarth/Aviation WeekWelcome to Routes’ weekly look at how Europe's aviation market is responding to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, helping you understand the schedule changes and manage the impact so we can navigate through this crisis together. Routes is part of Aviation Week Network.
The data is supplied by OAG using its OAG Schedules Analyser tool unless stated. Please note: the COVID-19 crisis remains fluid as airlines around the world continue to make dramatic capacity cuts. OAG has taken several steps to ensure the data is as accurate as possible.
European capacity
The number of scheduled departure seats from and within Europe dropped by a further 14% last week (w/c April 20) to 2.57 million, of which 1.76 million were in Western Europe and about 810,000 in Central and Eastern Europe. The total figure meant there were 91% fewer seats in the market compared with the same week in 2019.
Has the nadir now been reached? Looking at the latest schedules data for the current week suggests there will be a rise in capacity, with the number of departure seats set to rise above 3 million. Time will tell if this rise will be temporary or if it marks the start of capacity gradually returning to the market as travel restrictions begin to be eased.
Russia remained the largest aviation market in Europe last week with 557,513 departure seats, mainly due to the size of its domestic market. However, this was 12.5% fewer seats than during the previous seven days. At the time of writing (April 29), the country has recorded almost 100,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and restrictions on foreign citizens from entering the country remain in place.
Elsewhere in the top 10 largest markets in Europe last week, eight countries recorded capacity declines. However, OAG data shows there was growth in two of them: Italy and France. While the growth in France was marginal—a week-on-week increase of 7,814 departure seats—the capacity rise in Italy was more eye-catching.
According to OAG, there were 470,650 available seats from and within Italy last week, an increase of more than 285,000 on the previous seven days. However, the schedules data lists the grounded Ryanair as having operated 390,000 seats, meaning the true size of Italy’s market last week was probably considerably smaller, with total capacity from and within the country likely to have been nearer to the 80,000 mark.
European airlines
Some of the main stories involving European airlines over the past week have understandably centered on restructuring exercises as carriers continue to grapple with the current travel restrictions and unprecedented reduction in demand.
On April 28, British Airways notified its trade unions of plans for a major redundancy program, affecting up to 12,000 staff. “The proposals remain subject to consultation, but it is likely that they will affect most of British Airways’ employees and may result in the redundancy of up to 12,000 of them,” a statement said.
“As previously announced, BA has availed itself of the UK’s COVID-19 job retention scheme and furloughed 22,626 employees in April.”
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) has also initiated a process to reduce the size of its future workforce by up to 5,000 full-time positions, representing about 40% of its total workforce. The Star Alliance member furloughed around 90% of its staff in mid-March.
“COVID-19 has forced SAS to face a new and unprecedented reality that will reverberate not only in the coming months, but also during the coming years,” CEO Rickard Gustafson said.
Lufthansa might seek some form of protection from creditors, according to reports, after rejecting proposed conditions of a German government bailout package. The group last week said it had liquidity of around €4.4 billion ($4.8 billion), but “does not expect to be able to cover the resulting capital requirements with further borrowings on the market.”
Meanwhile, Norwegian Air Shuttle has warned that flights could remain grounded until April 2021 and operations would not return to normal before 2022. The LCC on Monday (April 27) published the full details of a restructuring plan which, if approved, would dilute existing shareholders' stakes to just 5.2%. The airline has already received an initial tranche of state aid worth NOK 300 million ($28.4 million).
Royal Canadian Navy faser nå ut sine Sea Kings til fordel for Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone (S92A) Disse skal være operative på alle Canadiske fregatter til neste år. Når dette skrives er det uvisst hvilken type helikopter det gjelder. Bildet i BBC meldingen er av en NH90.
Foto: RCN
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Nato helicopter missing off Greece
15 minutes ago
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionNato has a standing maritime reaction force in the Mediterranean
A Nato helicopter has gone missing over the Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece, Greek officials say.
Media reports say there were between three and six people on board. They say the aircraft disappeared after taking off from a Canadian frigate as part of a military exercise.
Nato search-and-rescue teams are reportedly searching international waters off Greece's Kefalonia island.
Nato has so far given no details on the aircraft or what went wrong.
Boeing plans to cut 10% of its workforce, saying the Covid-19 pandemic had delivered it a "body blow".
The struggling US plane maker employs 150,000 people worldwide and was already under pressure after being forced to ground its 737 Max planes following two fatal crashes.
The coronavirus outbreak has led to a collapse in air travel.
BA said it will cut 12,000 jobs while Airbus called it the "gravest crisis" the industry has "ever known".
Boeing's chief executive Dave Calhoun said in a memo to staff that the pandemic is "delivering a body blow to our business" and demand for commercial airline travel "has fallen off a cliff".
He warned: "The aviation industry will take years to return to the levels of traffic we saw just a few months ago."
While 10% of jobs will be cut across the company, Boeing admitted that reductions would be steeper in some departments, such as its commercial airlines business.
'Heartless decision'
Earlier this week, British Airways revealed its own redundancy plan which has been branded as "a heartless decision in a time of national crisis" by the union Unite.
Unite's general secretary Len McCluskey said the announcement "will be felt as the stab in the back it undoubtedly is by the close-knit BA family".
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionBA is making thousands of staff redundant
But BA's chief executive Alex Cruz said: "The scale of this challenge requires substantial change."
Guillaume Faury, the boss of Boeing-rival Airbus, said on Wednesday: "We are now in the midst of the gravest crisis the aerospace industry has ever known."
Airbus reported a €481m (£413m) loss in the three months to March, compared to a €40m profit in the first quarter last year, on sales down 15% at €10.6bn.
Boeing also announced a first quarter pre-tax loss, of $1.5bn compared to a $2.3bn pre-tax profit last year. Sales dropped 26% to $17bn.
Mr Calhoun said Boeing is aiming for its 737 Max aircraft to begin flying again this year.
The jet was grounded globally more than a year ago following two plane crashes within five months which claimed the lives of 346 people.
Boeing's results also revealed that the company burned through $4.3bn in cash during the first quarter.
At the weekend, Boeing ended talks with Embraer about buying the Brazilian company's regional airline business for $4.2bn.
Embraer claimed that Boeing had "manufactured false claims as a pretext to seek to avoid its commitments to close the transaction and pay Embraer the $4.2bn purchase price.
But Mr Calhoun said that after two years of talks "we had reached a point where continued negotiation was no longer helpful".
