Preliminary investigations into last week’s throttle-response failure on an American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER suggest that a simple inadvertent obstruction of the throttle lever might have been responsible.
The aircraft had been approaching Los Angeles on 28 February, with its engines at flight-idle power and the auto-throttle engaged, when its left-hand powerplant apparently did not respond […]

UK carrier Virgin Atlantic may not be the first airline to fly an algae-derived biofuel after having successfully completed the first ever part-biofuel flight late last month.
Virgin, which is striving to position itself as the world’s most sustainable airline, believes that algae is the biofuel of the future.
Although Virgin has never said […]

Virgin Atlantic Airways is holding off on ordering additional Airbus A380s, Boeing 787s, or signing for Boeing 747-8s until it has greater clarity about…

Lufthansa private fleet to have nine jets including two CRJ200s business jets Lufthansa is to operate nine of its own business aircraft this year,…

Bahraini flag-carrier Gulf Air aims to revamp its current fleet before the first of 16 Boeing 787 aircraft on order is delivered to the carrier in 2016.
During a singing ceremony today for the 787 aircraft in Washington, DC Chairman Mahmood Hashim Al Kooheji told flightglobal.com’s sister premium news site ATI: “We hope to get […]