The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association (SWAPA) announced staffing and funding for a Strike Preparedness Committee to prepare the pilots and the flying public for strike action if SWAPA and Southwest Airlines cannot come to an agreement on a new contract in the coming months.
Finnair, the first European airline to operate the Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, has signed a 12-year agreement with Lufthansa Technik (LHT) for component support.
A Centralized Code Assignment and Management System (CCAMS) has gone operational in Croatia extending Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) code management to about 60% of Europe’s air traffic.
Data represents the total employment, full time plus part time, of all US scheduled passenger, charter and cargo airlines, sorted by Airline Group. Changes in employee totals from the previous month, and the current month from a year ago, two years ago and five years ago are represented by percentage change.
FL Technics will act as an exclusive representative of Future Metals—which makes aerospace metals and other materials for aircraft manufacturing and maintenance—in multiple CIS countries, including Russia and Moldova, and neighboring states such as Ukraine and Georgia.
GE Oil & Gas has released InspectionWorks Connect, a remote collaboration software platform for nondestructive testing (NDT) and inspection of equipment, including aircraft engines.
Bombardier plans to build on recent “momentum” in the CSeries program to increase sales totals for the aircraft, according to Bombardier Commercial Aircraft president Fred Cromer.
