Palmerola International Airport (XPL) is now fully operational serving the Tegucigalpa, Honduras area.
The airport was inaugurated in October 2021 as the Honduras’ new international airport for civil and commercial use.
U.S. airlines, including American, Spirit and United has lately been moving to XPL.
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From CNN:
“Globally, airlines have canceled about 5,700 flights on Christmas Eve day, Christmas and the day after Christmas, according to FlightAware. That includes about 1,700 flights within, into or out of the United States.”
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Rostec made this announcement:
Today an Mะก-21-300 aircraft, whose wings are made of polymer composite materials produced in Russia, has performed its first flight. The airliner became airborne from the airfield of the Irkutsk Aviation Plant, a branch of Irkut (a subsidiary of UAC of Rostec State Corporation). The flight was performed in normal mode. Mะก-21-300/310 is a new generation medium-haul aircraft with capacity of 163 to 211 passengers. Its key distinction consists in its wings made of composites.
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Kenya Airways will not be nationalized. The government of Kenya has dropped its plans to fully nationalize the flag carrier.
Instead the government will look at other ways to safeguard its loans to the carrier according to the IMF.
Kenya Airways, a member of the Sky Team Alliance, is a leading African airline flying to 41 destinations worldwide, 34 of which are in Africa and carries over four million passengers annually. It continues to modernize its fleet with its 32 aircraft being some of the youngest in Africa. This includes its flagship Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
The on-board service is renowned and the lie-flat business class seat on the wide-body aircraft is consistently voted among the worldโs top 10. Kenya Airways takes pride in being at the forefront of connecting Africa to the World and the World to Africa through its hub at the new ultra-modern Terminal 1A at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
Kenya Airways celebrated 43 years of operations in January 2020 and was named Africa Leading Airline 2019 by the World Travel Awards.
Top Copyright Photo: Kenya Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner 5Y-KZF (msn 36043) AMS (Ton Jochems). Image: 956248.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) clarified that the aircraft cabin remains a very low risk environment for contracting COVID-19 even though Omicron appears to be more transmissible than other variants in all environments.
According to IATAโs Medical Advisor Dr. David Powell, factors that contribute to the very low risks include aircraft design characteristics (direction of air flow, rate of air exchange and filtration), the forward orientation of passengers while seated, well-enforced masking, and enhanced sanitary measures. The controlled nature of the aircraft cabin compared to other enclosed environments adds a further measure of protection, Dr. Powell noted.
Public health authorities have not suggested further measures for indoor environments as a result of Omicron; and IATAโs advice for travelers, including correctly wearing masks, is unchanged and even more important.
Malu Aviation cargo flight from Goma to Shabunda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on December 23, 2021 has reportedly crashed.
The airliner crashed in a forest near the village of Kalehe.
The flight was operated with Short SD3-60 9S-GPS (msn SH.3752).
Five occupants were killed.
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From Deutsche Welle:
“Lufthansa is slashing its winter schedule as a result of reduced demand amid the omicron variant. It’s also struggling with pilots who are calling in sick over the holiday period.German air carrier Lufthansa plans to cut 33,000 flights from its winter schedule, about 10% of its total flight plan.”
“CEO Carsten Spohr told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper that there had been a sharp downturn in bookings, particularly in the mid-January to February period.”
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From CBS News:
“United and Delta have canceled more than 200 flights on Christmas Eve as a surge in COVID-19 cases impacts their staff.”
“The nationwide spike in Omicron cases this week has had a direct impact on our flight crews and the people who run our operation,” a United Airlines spokesperson told CBS News in a statement. “As a result, we’ve unfortunately had to cancel some flights and are notifying impacted customers in advance of them coming to the airport.”
Top Copyright Photo: United Airlines Boeing 757-324 WL N75854 (msn 32813) LAX (Michael B. Ing). Image: 958215.
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United Airlines is being forced to realign its East Coast United Express services due to an on-going regional pilot shortage made worst by COVID.
According to Skift Airline Weekly and The Points Guy, United is dropping 11 regional routes in March 2022 from the Washington Dulles hub (IAD) while others will be shifted to the Newark hub (EWR). No markets will be completely dropped as some routes to the Chicago O’Hare (ORD) or Newark (EWR) will continue.
Routes dropped from IAD:
Akron/Canton (continues from ORD)
Asheville (continues from EWR)
Bangor (continues from EWR)
Erie (continues from ORD)
Grand Rapids (continues from EWR)
Greensboro (continues from EWR)
Greenville/Spartanburg (continues from EWR)
Harrisburg (shifted to EWR)
Ithaca (shifted to EWR)
Milwaukee (continues from EWR)
Philadelphia (shifted to EWR)
Scranton/Wilkes Barre (shifted to EWR)
State College, PA (shifted to EWR)
Wilmington, NC (continues from EWR)
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Previously United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby announced at a Senate hearing its United Express partners had grounded over 100 regional aircraft due to the on-going pilot shortage.
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Copyright Photo: MyWings – ETF Airways Boeing 737-8K5 WL 9A-LAB (msn 30882) BSL (Paul Bannwarth). Image: 956242.
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