Air Transport World

By Linda Blachly
ATR has obtained Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) approval for the ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 to operate in Russia and the CIS, the company said in a statement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Anne Paylor
Unions representing almost 90% of employees at Spanish airline Iberia have announced a series of 24-hour strikes in the run-up to Christmas.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Anne Paylor
Malaysia Airlines has reported a third-quarter net income after tax of MYR37 million ($12.1 million), resulting in a small operating profit of MYR4 million for the period. This reverses an operating loss of MYR192 million for the year-ago period.

ST Aerospace has injected $1.73 million of additional capital into Total Engine Asset Management (TEAM), its engine leasing joint venture (JV) with Maurbeni Corp. The company said this brings STA Engines’ total share capital contribution in TEAM to $3.4 million. TEAM was set up in June 2011 to provide engine leasing services for CFM56-3, CFM56-5B and CFM56-7B engines that power narrowbody aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Airbus has firmed up plans to increase the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of its A330-200 and -300 twinjets and will offer an increased fuel capacity option on the A330-300.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
FastJet, the African budget airline backed by EasyJet (U2) founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has flown its first flight from its Tanzania base.

By Victoria Moores
Samer Majali is to step down as CEO of Gulf Air at the end of 2012 after three years with the airline.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Aaron Karp
US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) blasted the Transportation Security Administration for skipping a Thursday House hearing on aviation security.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Continental Airlines has been cleared of criminal blame for the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde aircraft at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

From the December 2012 Issue of ATW

By Karen Walker
It was too long coming and it burdens European carriers with carbon taxes while their rivals get a reprieve, but the European Commission’s decision to suspend the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) for a year is without question a welcome move.
ATW Opinion

Aaron Karp
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) has been selected by US House of Representatives’ Republicans to become the chairman of the chamber’s influential Transportation and Infrastructure Committee when the new Congress convenes in Washington DC next month.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Aaron Karp
BOC Aviation, a Bank of China subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Brazil’s GOL to purchase and leaseback eight new Boeing 737-800s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Kurt Hofmann
Air China subsidiary Shenzhen Airlines joined Star Alliance Thursday, becoming Star’s 27th member. Shenzhen Airlines is China’s fifth largest carrier.

By Victoria Moores
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. is working with PowerJet to certify the long-range variant of its SSJ100, ahead of next year’s first delivery to Russian carrier Gazpromavia Aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Cal Jet Air, operated by XTRA Airways, will offer 9X-weekly service to Mazatlan from Houston, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Denver, Colo.; Los Angeles, Calif. and Oakland, Calif. Jan. 9-April 9. Qatar Airways launched 3X-weekly Doha -Belgrade Airbus A320 service. It will also launch Doha service to Warsaw, Poland (Dec. 5), Gassim, Saudi Arabia (Jan. 7); Najaf, Iraq (Jan. 23); Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Feb. 20); Chicago, USA (April 10); and Salalah, Oman (May 22).
Airports & Networks

Christine Boynton
Pratt & Whitney will invest more than $63 million in an expansion of its manufacturing operations at its West Palm Beach, Fla. facility beginning in the first half of 2013.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s State Corp. Russian Technologies (Rostech) has sold 45.42% shares in titanium manufacturer VSMPO-AVISMA to company management.

Kurt Hofmann
Turkish Airlines is evaluating several financing alternatives for doubling its fleet to 400 aircraft by 2020.

Christine Boynton
The Maldives government has terminated a $511 million contract awarded to Bangalore-based GMR Group in 2010 for the upgrade, expansion and operation of Male International Airport.
Airports & Networks

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) has reported a first-half net loss of $100.3 million, deepened from a $16.9 million loss in the year-ago period.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Kurt Hofmann
Slovenia-based Adria Airways (JP) said it has been unofficially informed that the European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into the state's measures for the benefit of the company from 2007 to 2011.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways (EY) is reportedly in talks to take a minority stake in India’s Jet Airways (9W), according to a Reuters report.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Boeing was selected by Guggenheim Aviation Partners to manage and engineer the conversion of three Boeing 767-300ERs to freighters, for delivery in 2013. The conversion will take place at ST Aerospace subsidiary ST Aviation Services Co. in Paya Lebar, Singapore.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Christine Boynton
Saab has formed a joint venture (JV) with Belgaum, India-based QuEST Global Manufacturing to manufacture and supply commercial aerostructure assemblies.
Aircraft & Propulsion