With the discovery of the jet engine and the pressurised cabin, limiting factors such as altitude and speed became irrelevant. This led to the development of the fastest planes in the world.
Countries with the highest air traffic
Although global air traffic fell by 55% in the last week of March, compared to the same period in 2019, due to the health crisis of COVID-19, the truth is that air travel in recent decades has become an indispensable part of our lives.
ISO 9001:2015
EAS BARCELONA has received in April the ISO 9001: 2015 certification issued by BUREAU VERITAS, which recognizes the quality of pilot training both on the ground, simulator and flight. All …
Main Spanish Airports
In this new blog entry we want to analyze the main spanish airports according to the growth trend they have had in recent years in the areas of passenger traffic flow, operations and freight.
COVID-19 – HELP TO STUDENTS
Dear Students from EAS BARCELONA,
We are doing everything possible so that our students can follow up their training properly and without completely disconnecting from their daily classes.
100 years of the first international commercial flight
On August 25, 100 years of the first international commercial flight were completed. On the same day of 1919, an international commercial flight took off and landed without any incident.
Bird strike, how common are accidents between birds and airplanes?
From 2008 to 2015, almost 98,000 bird crashes with airplanes or “bird strike” were reported, according to data from the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). It is evidence that this is a relatively common occurrence of modern air travel.
Only 4% of pilots in Spain are women
Nowadays, just over 5% of commercial flight pilots are women, according to the International Airline Pilots Association.
The country with the most female pilots is India, and Asian airlines are the ones that employ the highest proportion of female pilots. This is undoubtedly one of the professions with the greatest gender inequality.
Which are the largest airplanes in the world?
Talking about largest airplanes, it often comes to mind the memory of two of the best known, one more modern the Airbus A 380 and the other – already classic and removed from most airlines – the Boeing B747. But there are other models, some even larger, created for the transport of heavy loads, military or even used to launch space rockets.
New record for the world’s longest non-stop flight
Qatar Airways and Qantas have long struggled to be the airline with the longest flight in the world. However, Singapore Airlines has recently joined the market for very long-distance flights.
The Asian company had recently offered the longest non-stop flight in the world, connecting the cities of Singapore and Newark (New Jersey) on a trip of just over 17 hours, and previously this record was held by Qatar Airways, with its 17.5 hour flight linking Auckland (New Zealand) and Doha (Qatar). Another airline that bets on this type of flights is the Australian company Qantas. Until now, its longest route without stops was the Perth (Australia) -Londres route, which runs in 17 hours.