As recently as eight years ago, only one airline flew between Los Angeles and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or Qatar—but this summer, three carriers will fly four daily flights, and a senior Emirates executive told Aviation Daily there is plenty of demand to fill most seats in economy and business class.
Although the references are oblique, the Obama Administration appears to be open to an FAA restructuring in its just-released fiscal year 2017 budget, which calls for $15.9 billion to operate the agency, up slightly from the $15.8 billion appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 2016.
NASA is seeking a significant increase in money for aeronautics research to fund a series of large-scale subsonic and supersonic civil-aircraft X-plane demonstrators to prove the benefits of technologies developed with industry.
Orders for the Comac C919 from China’s three big state airlines are unlikely to appear until the state manufacturer is able to confirm the performance of the 158-seat airliner.
British Airways (BA) will be flying from London Stansted Airport (STN) this summer to four leisure destinations, a move which will bring it in direct competition with Ryanair or possibly is a precursor to a new cooperation with Europe’s largest LCC.
Feb. 8, 1996—Rockwell International was planning a March demonstration in China to showcase GPS air traffic management technology as a solution to the country’s air traffic needs, after the Civil Administration Aviation of China recognized it as truly satellite-based.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Feb. 10-11—Aero-Engines Americas, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, www.aviationweek.com/events Feb. 15—ATW’s Airline Industry Achievement Awards, Singapore, www.aviationweek.com/events
For a complete list of Aviation Week Network’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.awin.aviationweek.com/events Mar. 3—Laureate Awards, The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. Apr. 5-7—MRO Americas, Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, Texas June 8-9—MRO BEER, Baltics, Eastern Europe & Russia, Prague, Czech Republic
The market has yet to determine which updated narrowbody—the Boeing 737MAX or the Airbus A320neo—will dominate, but some analysts have begun to say that the industry could face a glut of narrowbodies and the huge orderbooks may not come to fruition.
ASL Aviation Group will expand its business with a further two airlines and increase its fleet from 100 to more than 130 aircraft, following a deal to acquire the airline operations of TNT Express (TNT).
The first binding energy efficiency and carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions targets for aviation have been agreed at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and in all but a few cases, aircraft in production or development will meet the initial standard without modification.
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) had high hopes that lawmakers would strike a key sentence from the latest round of FAA reauthorization proposals.
The FAA reauthorization bill introduced Feb. 3 by Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Penn.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will put the FAA in charge of demonstrating remote-tower technologies at seven airports, in a pilot program that would be launched within 6 months of the bill’s passage.
Airbus has benefited from the nine-month head start its A320neo program has over Boeing’s 737 MAX, grabbing 67% of orders for next-generation narrowbodies—but Boeing says the order gap is only temporary.
SkyWest Inc. had no serious discussions with Alaska Air about adding more flying before the Seattle-based airline told investors in January that it plans to order up to 30 76-seat jets for its Horizon Air subsidiary, Skywest executives said on their Feb. 4 earnings call.
SeaPort Airlines filed for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection in Oregon on Feb. 5, and the airline blamed a national pilot shortage for some of its troubles.
