The E175 and CRJ-900 are arch-rivals – both aimed to dominate the sub-100 seats short- to medium-haul market. Each of these narrowbodies has its distinct advantages over the other, and we will explore these later in this article. The history of the E175 is relatively straightforward, although there’s a twist in the tale for the […]
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Singapore Airlines has a relatively good, but not perfect safety record. During its operational history, it has suffered one fatal crash. This accident happened in 2000 and was Singapore Airlines’ only crash resulting in a total loss of aircraft. Since this accident, Singapore Airlines has not had any accidents which have resulted in injuries to
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When a bird collides with an aircraft it is called a bird strike. Bird strikes can result in devastating accidents and can lead to significant aircraft damage. Globally, wildlife (birds, mammals, etc.) strikes killed more than 301 people and destroyed over 298 aircraft during the period between 1988 and 2021. Probably the most famous bird
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Lufthansa has a relatively good, but not perfect safety record. During its operational history, it has suffered some fatal crashes, but only one within the last thirty years. The airline is fully safety-compliant with local and international standards and many consider it to be one of the safest airlines in the world. In the article
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The narrowbody Boeing 757 and widebody Boeing 777 are quite different aircraft, both physically, and in terms of the main markets that they serve. These two aircraft embarked on their first commercial flights in 1983 and 1995 respectively. The 757 production run ended in 2005, having been succeeded by new aircraft such as the Boeing
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Airports generate revenues in a variety of ways to pay for operational costs (staff, utilities, etc.), fund capital investments, pay for capital borrowing costs, and in the case of private airports, pay a return to investors. Airport revenues are usually classified into one of two main categories – aeronautical and non-aeronautical revenues. And, in each
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The manufacture of an Airbus aircraft involves millions of individual parts which are sourced from across the globe. Airbus operates a multitude of manufacturing plants around the world and twelve final assembly lines across five global locations. Unlike Boeing which carries out final assembly only in the USA, Airbus has multiple final assembly plants outside
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Malaysia Airlines is infamous for two very tragic events in 2014 – one remains a complete mystery with the cause still unknown and the other was an act of international aggression against the Malaysia Airlines aircraft. Whilst we can’t ignore these two tragedies, they do need to be put into context as two unrelated and
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It’s true that in the past Air France has had a somewhat checkered reputation when it comes to safety. During the late 1980s, it suffered a couple of fatal air crashes. Those were followed in 2000 by the Concorde disaster at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport which signaled the demise of the supersonic jet’s services.
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