French air accident authority BEA has launched an investigation after a Saab 2000 operated by Swiss regional Darwin Airline lost its nose wheel on landing at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Jan. 28.
An EVA Airways Airbus A320 full-flight simulator (FFS) has been certified to Level D, the highest FFS standard, by the European Aviation Safety Agency and the Taiwan Civil Aviation Authority.
Russia’s Ministry of Transport said the government spent more than RUB7 billion ($201 million) to develop several projects in different regions of the country.
LAN Cargo has received approval from local authorities to build a new maintenance hangar at Miami International Airport, the LATAM Airlines Group’s first in the US.
American Airlines Group, the parent of merger partners American Airlines and US Airways, reported a 2013 net profit of $1.9 billion on an adjusted basis that excludes special charges and combines the full-year results of American and US Airways.
Several European countries could be affected by air traffic controller strikes this week. Italy‘s ATM system could be affected tomorrow and Thursday, while strikes are also possible in Portugal tomorrow.
UK-based flight training provider CTC Aviation Group has signed a cooperation agreement with Phoenix, Ariz.-based Airline Training Center Arizona (ATCA) to use its facilities for pilot training.
Commercialization remains the biggest challenge to achieving the FAA's target of 1 billion gallons of renewable aviation fuel use by 2018, says administrator Michael Huerta.
