Air Transport Safety, Ops & Regulation
Jan 22, 2014
Russia’s Yamal Airlines has temporarily pulled its Boeing 737s fleet out of service.
Jan 22, 2014
A Pskovavia Antonov An-24 overran a Moscow Domodedovo runway on Wednesday. There were no fatalities or injures, according to a Domodedovo statement
Jan 22, 2014
Premium air travel markets continued to improve in November, with overall international premium traffic increasing 5.4% year-over-year, “in line with the October result [5.6%] but … above growth year-to-date, which indicates that premium travel demand has accelerated over recent months,” according to IATA’s November Premium Traffic Monitor.
Jan 21, 2014
Bombardier Aerospace will lay off 1,700 employees in a bid to contain costs after stretching out CSeries development by at least 12 months and seeing business and commercial aircraft orders decline in 2013.
Jan 21, 2014
The Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination (ATCEUC)—which originally planned an Action Day Oct. 10, 2013, and then called it off—has rekindled plans to strike Jan. 29 to protest the European Commission’s (EC) SES2+ package aimed at speeding implementation of the Single European Sky (SES).
Jan 20, 2014
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has conducted a biofuel demonstration flight as a step toward the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Jan 17, 2014
The two pilots of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 that landed at the wrong airport Jan. 12 in Missouri told National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators they flew a “visual approach into what they believed to be Branson Airport” and that they “did not realize they were at the wrong airport until they had landed.”
Jan 17, 2014
Airbus COO-customers John Leahy is optimistic that China will soon agree to take 27 Airbus A330s, which have been stalled by a dispute over the European Union emissions trading scheme (ETS).