Pilots at Calgary’s WestJet are gearing up for another attempt to unionize.

IT & Distribution-April 20, 2017

Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is looking into an incident in which an Air Canada aircraft lost one of its undercarriage wheels prior to takeoff on a transatlantic flight April 16.

Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo flight dispatchers, represented by the Teamsters union, have voted to ratify changes to their existing contract.

Alaska Air Group regional subsidiary Horizon Air and its pilots, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, reached a tentative agreement April 14 to amend their existing eight-year contract.

An effective flight optimization program relies on three elements: reliable data collection, effective analytics that generates meaningful results, and translating those results into actionable steps that are communicated throughout an operation.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) searched approximately 4,600 electronic devices, or 0.008%, of approximately 58 million incoming international air passengers and crew in the first six months of the US government’s FY 2017 (October 2016-March 2017), according to CBP statistics released April 11.

Let’s start with today’s good news for United. The CEO issued a full apology for the awful bumped-then-dragged passenger incident, took full responsibility and promised a full review of the company’s crew transport and over-booking procedures.