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Wednesday, 11 December 2019

BBC News

• 'World's first' fully-electric commercial flight takes offA fully electric seaplane flight has been hailed by operators as the start of a third

The Guardian

• One-third of Thomas Cook customers still waiting for refundsUK aviation regulator fails to meet its own 60-day repayment target for those hit by collapseTens of thousands of Thomas Cook customers waiting for refunds for holidays booked with the travel company have not been repaid on time after the body making the payments missed a self-imposed deadline.The world’s oldest tour operator collapsed earlier this year after failing to secure emergency funding from banks, leaving about 150,000 British holidaymakers stranded abroad. Continue reading...
• World's first fully electric commercial aircraft takes flight in CanadaCompany hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in VancouverThe world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes.“This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can work,â€� said Roei Ganzarski, chief executive of Australian engineering firm magniX. Continue reading...

Times Online

• Rolls-Royce’s biggest investor Value Act may cut stake as Bradley Singer leaves board [subscription]The biggest shareholder in Rolls-Royce has resigned from the aerospace company’s board after almost four years, leading to expectations that the US activist investor could cut its stake.
• Ed Pierson: I’m uneasy about my family flying on 737, whistleblower told Boeing [subscription]Months before two Boeing 737 Max crashes killed 346 people a senior manager warned the company of serious problems at the factory that built both aeroplanes, it has emerged.

Birmingham Post

• Representative from Rolls-Royce’s biggest shareholder quits engineering giant’s boardValueAct Capital’s Bradley Singer has stepped down as a non-executive director

Aviation Industry

• Air France-KLM boosts Qantas cooperationAir France-KLM will enhance its partnership with Australian flag carrier Qantas, adding more codeshares with LCCs Jetstar Airways and Jetstar Asia flights. read more
• KLM commits to biofuel purchase KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has announced plans to buy an undisclosed quantity of used cooking oil-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Finnish company Neste, which will supply flights from Amsterdam Schiphol on a drop-in basis. read more