Aviation Daily, October 6, 2015

Air France confirmed it will downsize its operations and cut some 2,900 jobs, but some staff did not take the news well, turning violent on executives during the central works council on that took place the morning of Oct. 5.

All members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ negotiating committee resigned days before Republic Airways and the union’s executive board announced they had reached terms on a new three-year tentative agreement for pilots, according to emails sent to pilots by union leaders. The negotiating committee stepped down after the union and the company met in Chicago on Sept. 24 for a second session with a National Mediation Board (NMB) mediator, with members telling pilots an agreement might not be reached.

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The first flight of the Avic AG600 amphibious aircraft has slipped to the first half of next year, extending the probable development period to nine years.

Funding for the next stage of the U.K.’s Astraea unmanned aircraft research program has been halted, program officials say.

The international airports in Stockholm, Sweden and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic are likely the next to have U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) preclearance facilities, a CBP official said.

Delta Air Lines is asking the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) to revoke the Tokyo Haneda frequency it awarded to American Airlines.

Airlines throughout the world have been increasingly worried about the upcoming EU Aviation Package, which will outline the EU’s future aviation strategy. Now it turns out the European Commission (EC) is pulling back one of its most contentious demands: fair competition clauses.

Pilots of a Trigana Air ATR 42-300 that crashed near the top of a ridge on the approach to Papua, Indonesia’s Oksibil Airport on Aug. 16 were not following the airline’s visual guidance approach to the airport, according to a preliminary report by Indonesian investigators.

Taiwan’s EVA Airways will lease two Airbus A330-300s from BOC Aviation, adding to the 13 A330s it operates today.