November 17, 2023News

Dubai Airshow 2023: VoltAero Unveils Electric Aircraft Charger

At the Dubai Airshow 2023, French firm VoltAero unveiled a universal mobile charger for electric aeroplanes. The charger will solidify the company’s strategy of creating a supporting infrastructure for its Cassio family of hybrid-electric aircraft. And since it is mobile, replenishing an electrified aeroplane in remote places is where it will come in handy. Regarding charging speed, it can recharge the Cassio 330 aircraft in about 30 minutes. That variant of the Cassio family packs a 41.5kWh battery.

Alongside the mobile charger, VoltAero showcased the two internal combustion engines that will work with the electric powertrain to propel the aircraft – a four-cylinder motor and a six-cylinder mill, both sourced from Kawasaki. In the aircraft, these engines will use hydrogen as their fuel. A demonstrator is being readied for 2025.

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May 10, 2024

Air India Announces More Flights To Three Cities In Europe

Planning a trip to Europe this summer? You might want to consider an additional carrier that can take you there. Air India, which presently operates direct flights to six European cities, has announced additional services for three of those destinations.

From June 22, 2024, the airline will begin operating daily non-stop flights from Delhi to Amsterdam Schiphol (up from four times weekly) and Delhi to Milan Malpensa (up from five times weekly). Furthermore, Air India will operate an extra service between Delhi and Copenhagen, bumping the weekly frequency to five. It’ll operate on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Earlier this month, the airline confirmed that from June 16, 2024, it would start a flight service between Delhi and Zurich. This will operate four times weekly.

The increased frequency of flights to the three European cities means Air India will fly 80 weekly services to mainland Europe. Besides the four mentioned above, the carrier also operates flights to Frankfurt, Paris and Vienna. Air India uses a two-class Boeing 787 Dreamliner on all European flights. The aircraft boasts 18 flat beds in Business Class and 236 Economy seats.

May 8, 2024

airBaltic Launches Three New Flights From Riga

As part of its 2024 summer season, Latvian airline airBaltic has launched three new flights from its primary hub, Riga. All three are direct flights to Skopje, Chisinau and Pristina. The carrier will fly two weekly flights to the three cities mentioned above.

Skopje is the capital of North Macedonia, and the flight here from Riga will take about 2 hours and 46 minutes. The nonstop service from Riga to Chisinau, Moldova’s capital, will take 2 hours and 30 minutes. Lastly, the flight time between Riga and Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, should take about 2 hours and 50 minutes.

airBaltic aims to offer 15 new routes from the Baltics and Tampere during the summer season. All flights will be operated on an Airbus A220-300.

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