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Civilian aviation news August 13, 2024

Virgin Australia Orders Eight Embraer E190-E2s

– E190-E2 fleet to be based in Perth, Western Australia – Embraer’s E2 offers outstanding comfort, performance, the lowest noise emissions and fuel burn –…

Civilian aviation news October 26, 2023

Airlines lament rise in UK air traffic control charges

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – Airlines criticised a decision by Britain’s aviation regulator on Thursday to increase the amount they can be charged for air…

Civilian aviation news August 18, 2022

Australian regulator raises competition concerns on Qantas buying out charter operator

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition regulator said on Thursday that Qantas Airways Ltd’s proposed purchase of the remainder of charter operator Alliance Aviation…

Space News July 7, 2022

Boeing’s Aurora to build Virgin Galactic spaceship carrier plane

WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) – Virgin Galactic inked an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build the company’s new twin-fuselage carrier plane that…

EXTRA NEWS, Space News July 11, 2021

Richard Branson makes historic first full flight to space with VirginGalactic’s Unity22

Today a new step into spaceflight has been taken by VirginGalactic from their Spacebase in New Mexico ‘Spaceport America’ when ‘Unity22’ took to space with…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News May 15, 2020

Virgin Atlantic won’t resume flights until August if UK introduces quarantine

(Reuters) – Virgin Atlantic will not be able to resume passenger flights until August at the earliest if Britain introduces a 14-day quarantine for travellers,…

Civilian aviation news, EXTRA NEWS May 5, 2020

Virgin Atlantic to cut jobs, move flights from Gatwick as COVID-19 bites

(Reuters) – British airline Virgin Atlantic plans to cut 3,150 jobs and move its London Gatwick operations to the bigger Heathrow airport, it said on…

Space News October 8, 2019

Boeing Invests in Human Spaceflight Pioneer Virgin Galactic

– Boeing and Virgin Galactic enter strategic partnership to transform commercial space travel and mobility – Latest investment to date by Boeing HorizonX Ventures organization…

Space News July 9, 2019

Virgin Galactic and Social Capital Hedosophia Announce Merger to Create the World’s First and Only Publicly Traded Commercial Human Spaceflight Company

Virgin Galactic’s customer backlog would singlehandedly double the total number of humans to have ever gone to space Virgin Galactic has developed a set of…

Civilian aviation news April 30, 2019

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