The Civil Air Navigation Services Organization (CANSO) has called on states to take a more proactive stance on airspace sovereignty and recognize they can legitimately delegate responsibility for the provision of air navigation services (ANS) to another state or third-party provider.
Boeing’s redesign of the 787 lithium ion battery system is intended to tackle more than just the still-undetermined root cause of two failures that ground the infant fleet.
Turkish Airlines has signed a contract for up to 117 A320 family aircraft, including 25 A321ceos, four A320neo, 53 A321neos and options for 35 additional A321neos.
The Pan European Network Service (PENS) is now the operational network for the exchange of coordination messages between the Maastricht Upper Area Centre (MUAC) in the Netherlands and NATS’ Swanwick Center in the UK, according to Eurocontrol.
PEMCO World Air Services announced the completion and delivery of its 10th converted aircraft for China Postal Airlines, a Boeing 737-400F. ST Engineering announced EcoServices has exercised a purchase option with Pratt & Whitney for the use and acquisition of its intellectual property assets for an aggregate cost of $25.2 million. EcoServices will now fully own, manage and protect its own portfolio of intellectual property assets.
CORRECTON: A March 14 ATW Daily News story, “China Airlines to launch LCC in Taiwan,” incorrectly stated that Taipei-based China Airlines plans to launch a low-cost carrier in Taiwan in conjunction with TransAsia Airways.
Boeing’s 787 chief engineer says the solution the manufacturer has come up with for the aircraft’s lithium ion battery guarantees there will never be a battery-related fire onboard a Dreamliner.
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Air Astana was incorporated in late 2001 and launched service May 15, 2002. The Kazakhstan government holds a 51% share in the airline through its Samruk-Kazyna National Welfare Fund, with BAE Systems holding the remaining 49% share. In 2011 Air Astana was admitted to the register of the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) and is the only Kazakhstan airline to maintain repeated audit success.
The most significant traffic growth, according to IATA calculations, will be in Asia where traffic, including China, is expected to increase by about 50% from 2012 to 2020. Other hot-spot growth areas are South America and the Middle East—both forecast to see traffic increases of 40% each—and Africa, where 11% traffic increases are expected by 2020. So even if, as also expected, the traffic numbers for North America and Europe continue at their current flat levels, the high traffic growths of other regions will pile on top of an existing global baseline.
When the European Commission (EC) agreed last year temporarily to suspend its emission trading scheme (ETS) carbon tax for flights to and from the European Union, the move was universally welcomed.
In the increasingly complex world of ancillary fees, optional extras and add-ons, airlines still have no standard on how they report their ancillary revenues. But in the US, at least, a number of regulations are being considered that would control how American carriers display their fees and fares.
When it comes to safety and aircraft, a good news story is bound to be very good indeed. And so for IATA, 2012 provided not just an exceptionally good story, but was a banner year. Member airlines had their safest year ever, with no hull-loss accidents on Western-built jets.
It wasn’t the New Year’s Eve 2012 memorythat the passengers and flight crew wanted. Spirit Airlines Flight 403 had just landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. While taxiing to the gate the Airbus A320 clipped the tail of a US Airways A320 parked in a remote part of the runway. The collision caused a gash in the tail cone section of the US Airways aircraft. The Spirit aircraft suffered no damage, but the incident caused consternation at Spirit Airlines, which said it was not advised by air traffic control of the presence of the other aircraft.
