Tag Archives: Rainer Bexten

Mango has second profitable year in a row

Mango (subsidiary of South African Airways) (Johannesburg) reported a fiscal year profit of $2.6 million, its second profitable year in a row. The low-fare airline also reported a high 91 percent load factor.

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Top Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten. Mango is certainly a colorful airline. Boeing 737-8BG ZS-SJL (msn 32356) arrives back at the Johannesburg base.

Mango aircraft slide show:

Blue Air is operating YR-BIB for Travel Service Airlines

Blue Air (Bucharest) is operating it Boeing 737-8AS YR-BIB (msn 29926) for Travel Service Airlines (Prgue), creating this interesting hybrid livery.

Did the smaller width of the Mangalore runway contribute to the Air India Express accident?

Air India Express (Mumbai) flight IX 812 on May 22, 2010 operated with Boeing 737-8HG VT-AXV (msn 36333) from Dubai to Manglalore in southern India, overran the 8,033 feet (2,448 m) runway number 06/24 while landing. The airliner skidded down the hill at the end of the runway and was destroyed by fire.

This WSJ article raises the question of whether the width of this runway contributed to the aircraft exiting the runway. ICAO Annex 14 requires runways to be 300 meters (100 feet) wide. This runway was only 200 meters wide.

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Avient takes delivery of a second MD-11F

Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten. Ex-VARIGlog McDonnell Douglas MD-11F Z-BVT (msn 48410, ex N575SH/PR-LGE) departed Miami on delivery January 27. It is pictured arriving at the European base of Liege the following day.

Avient Aviation (Harare and Liege) has taken delivery of its second McDonnell Douglas MD-11F freighter. Tragically the company lost the first (Z-BAV, msn 48408) on November 28, 2009 on takeoff at Shanghai.

The first ex-Lufthansa CityLine CRJ200 is painted for UTair

Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten. Ex-Lufthansa CityLine CRJ200 (CL-600-2B19) D-ACJJ (msn 7298) is pictured at Cologne with its new identity.

UTair Aviation (Khanty Mansiysk) is acquiring a fleet of second-hand Bombardier CRJ200s (CL-600-2B19s) from Lufthansa CityLine. The first has been painted.

RwandAir adds two CRJ200s, negotiates for two Boeing 737-800s

RwandAir Bombardier CRJ200 (CL-600-2B19) D-ACHG (msn 7439) CGN, originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.

RwandAir (Kigali) as previously reported, is acquiring two CRJ200s from Lufthansa. The flag carrier is also negotiating for two Boeing 737-800s for delivery in 2011.

News link:

www.reuters.com/article/idAFLDE5BF01G20091216?rpc=44

Sky Georgia adds Ilyushin Il-76TD 4L-SKY

SkyGeorgia Il-76TD 4L-SKT (Grd) GKE (BX)(LR)

Sky Georgia (formerly Georgian National Airlines) (Tbilisi) has added this ex-Gomelavia Ilyushin Il-76TD 4L-SKY.

Air Charter Express is now Meridian Airways

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 (F) 9G-AXD (msn 45927) displays the new identity at Ostend/Brugge. Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten.

Air Charter Express (Accra and Ostend/Brugge) has changed its name again, this time it is Meridian Airways.

The first EFly (efly.it) 146-300 is painted

The first BAe 146-300 for new airline Efly (efly.it) of Italy is this aircraft currently registered 9H-ELE (msn E3209). It is undergoing maintenance at Cologne (Nayak). Copyright Photo: Rainer Bexten.