Parker Aerospace and GE Aviation agreed to form a joint venture (JV) to enhance the development and the manufacture of commercial aircraft engine fuel nozzles. The JV, Advanced Atomization Technologies, will be based at the Parker Gas Turbine Fuel Systems Division facility in Clyde, New York. Saab named Görgen Johansson as head of its dynamics business area. Johansson has served as CFO at Saab since March.
London Heathrow Airport has lost its position as Europe’s primary hub airport due to its runway capacity shortage, according to former IATA CEO Giovanni Bisignani.
CFM International, the engine joint venture between GE Aviation and Safran, is ramping up activity as it prepares to shift production from the stalwart CFM56 to its new LEAP family, which will power the Airbus A320neo, Boeing 737 MAX and COMAC C919.
Engaging in nepotism, accepting expensive gifts, ignoring regulations . . . these are among the charges leveled against the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) in a government report released last month. MWAA, which manages Washington National (DCA) and Dulles (IAD) airports, has largely acknowledged the failings.
Eurocontrol said 43 of the 56 states making up the ICAO European and North Atlantic (EUR/NAT) region successfully migrated to the new Flight Plan 2012 (FPL2012) format last month.
Emirates will increase 11X-weekly Dubai-Mauritius service to 14X-weekly Dec. 2 with a Boeing 777-300. TAME launched daily Quito-Lima service Nov. 26th. SriLankan Airlines launched 2X-daily Colombo-Trivandrum service Nov. 22. American Airlines launched 4X-weekly Miami-Asunción service Nov. 17 after a six year absence.
Global traffic in October showed a continued softening of airline passenger traffic growth and “significant” weakening of freight demand, IATA said, citing Hurricane Sandy as a contributor.
Freight giants TNT and United Parcel Service (UPS) have submitted a series of remedies to the European Commission (EC) in a bid to secure regulatory approval for their merger.
American Airlines has asked a US bankruptcy court to extend the period during which it has the exclusive right to file a plan for emerging from Chapter 11 reorganization.
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The Business Travel Coalition launched a petition to urge the Obama administration to force airlines to provide ancillary fee information to all sales channels. The petition was posted on the “We the People” platform on the White House website, which allows any American to create and post a petition on the site and collect signatures.
