Flight Training & Simulation-April 30, 2015

As the campaign led by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines sped from secret briefings in Washington DC to the broad media and loud finger-pointing, one thing became clear: The US carriers are eager for a fight against Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways and their state owners.

US President Barack Obama said he intends to nominate Peter Neffenger, the vice commandant of the US Coast Guard, to be the next head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

Excessive costs and an aviation sector that is not as robust as it should be, especially in attracting international business, are hurting Canada’s air transport industry, conference panelists said Tuesday.

Latin American traffic growth has slowed from double digits, but is still expected to grow 5%-6% per year, reaching nearly a half billion passengers by 2025, according to Alex de Gunten, adviser to the executive board of the Latin America and Caribbean Air Transport Association.

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has blocked Norilsk-based Taimyr Airlines from acquiring a 47.8% share in Arkhangelsk-based Nordavia Airline.

Lufthansa has offered its pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) general arbitration of all open collective wage agreements, as a concession to avoid new strikes.

Senior executives from two of the three major US carriers involved in the growing dispute over alleged unfair competition from the Gulf carriers said Tuesday they are simply asking for government-to-government consultations on the US Open Skies agreements with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar.