The FAA and its aviation medical examiners—physicians who evaluate commercial airline pilots every six months to one year—are considering several options to break through actual or perceived “firewalls” that prevent them from alerting airlines when they observe potential mental-health issues during routine or special examinations.
hinese investors are continuing to show keen interest in Virgin Australia, with China-based Nanshan Group reaching a deal to purchase most of Air New Zealand’s stake in the Australian airline.
SAN FRANCISCO—Iceland-based WOW Air inaugurated service June 9 between San Francisco and Reykjavik, the first nonstop flights between Iceland and San Francisco since Icelandair ceased its operations at San Francisco International Airport in the mid-2000s.
Answered by Ludek Stasek, technical director for Czech carrier that provides scheduled, charter and business-jet flights to more than 300 airports. Travel Service launched scheduled service in 2004. It flew 5.7 million passengers in 2015.
PARIS—Faced with mounting bottlenecks at the supplier level, French aerospace primes are taking both conventional and unorthodox steps to ensure that a boost in production of several major programs stays on track.
BRUSSELS—The European Commission believes sunset clauses included in open-skies mandates are illegal, and could challenge them in the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Aviation Daily has learned.
BOSTON—Alaska Airlines is in the process of revamping its cargo business, and sees new business opportunities as it moves away from its signature “combi” aircraft to embrace full freighters.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is rolling out several programs aimed at better securing the perimeter and access-control areas of smaller commercial-service airports against external and inside threats.
BRUSSELS—EU governments have given the European Commission (EC) authorization to negotiate comprehensive air-transport agreements with the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
HARTFORD, Conn.—UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) stated that its focus on increasingly more-electric, intelligent and integrated aircraft systems will help drive a 6% annual compounded growth rate through 2020.
ZURICH—Lufthansa Group CEO Carsten Spohr sees little chance for takeovers outside the European Union, because of the continuing legal restrictions of ownership and control.
A highly-publicized 2014 incident involving severe turbulence prompted American Airlines to boost weather information for pilots and to create a turbulence task force to lessen the chances of the problematic encounters.
