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FlightGlobal • Alfred Chua

Alliance Aviation appoints former Flyadeal chief Steven Greenway ahead of operational restructuring

Australia’s Alliance Aviation has appointed former Flyadeal chief executive Steven Greenway to lead the carrier as it prepares to reorganize and “right-size operations.” The leadership change comes as Alliance reassesses its operating structure and positions the business for its next phase.

2026-08-18T01:50:01.996374-07:00
Routes   Europe   Airbus A320   Airlines  
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Air Data News • Ricardo Meier

SWISS to replace A220s with larger A320neos on Geneva-Heathrow route

By Air Data News: Two 180-seat A320neos will move to the Geneva base for summer 2027, adding capacity on one of the airline’s busiest routes from SWISS will change the composition of its Geneva fleet next summer, replacing two Airbus A220-300s with larger A320neos to increase capacity between the Swiss city and London Heathrow.

2026-08-18T02:05:06.404105-07:00
MRO   Accident   Aviation Safety & Regulation  
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FlightGlobal • David Kaminski-Morrow

Qantas A380 flew two long-haul sectors with maintenance lamp inadvertently left in wing

By FlightGlobal: Control procedures under scrutiny after missing tool undetected before aircraft released back to service. Australian carrier Qantas has initiated work on using new technology for tool control, and revised its tool procedures, after an incident in which a maintenance lamp was left inside an Airbus A380 wing.

2026-08-18T00:05:19.747514-07:00
ATC   Policy & Regulation   Sustainability & Climate Initiatives  
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FlightGlobal • Dominic Perry

UK launches first airspace-scale contrail avoidance trials

By FlightGlobal: Operation Blue Skies consortium to carry out testing in Shanwick oceanic airspace from later this year. Operational evalutions are set to begin later this year of an airspace-scale contrail avoidance trial through a 30-month project part-funded by the UK government.

2026-08-18T02:35:10.032576-07:00
eVTOL   Sustainability & Climate Initiatives   Airlines   Beta Technologies  
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ch-aviation • Dirk Andrei Salcedo

Air New Zealand says ALIA too small to be cost-effective

By ch-aviation: Support Contact Newsroom Print Page Preparing for print Commercial Aviation Air New Zealand Beta Technologies ALIA CX300, © Air New Zealand By Dirk Andrei Salcedo 18Aug2026 LinkedIn X Facebook Copy news link RSS Feed Air New Zealand (NZ, Auckland International ) has asked Beta Technologies ( Burlington, VT ) to examine a larger battery-electric aircraft after concluding that the ALIA CX300 used in its recent demonstrator programme was too small to be cost-effective, chief executive officer Nikhil Ravishankar told New Zealand news outlet Newsroom.

2026-08-17T18:13:26.048992-07:00