Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (Speea) will vote by Feb. 10 on whether to accept the terms of a new six-year contract extension tentatively agreed with Boeing during secret negotiations.
Rosaviatsia, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, has written to the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), claiming that the final report into the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Eastern Ukraine contained a number of what it calls “unsubstantiated and inaccurate” conclusions.
Rolls-Royce has launched its SelectCare engine service aimed at fitting between its comprehensive TotalCare offering and the more basic MRO Services package, with American Airlines unveiled as the program’s first customer.
Winter has been running Fastjet for the past four years during what turned out an extremely difficult start-up phase. Efforts to expand the airline’s network were hampered by slow bureaucracy, legal fights and political interference in many of the key markets the airline once wanted to serve.
The groups are IAM District 141, covering clerical, office, stores fleet and passenger services, and District 142, covering mechanics and inspectors, line servicemen, cleaners and contract services workers.
The Malaysian carrier will end its daily Airbus A330-300 Dubai service on Feb. 15, and will instead codeshare on Emirates’ four daily flights on this route.
These special flights, with flight numbers AF744 and AF747, will take off at 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Central European Time respectively from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and fly over legendary landmarks in the country.
Under the new deal, Aeromexico passengers will be able to connect via WestJet through Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver to a range of Canadian cities, including Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Halifax, and Deer Lake and St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The FAA will develop by February 2017 guidance for airlines to use in training and evaluating pilots to better monitor their aircraft but will not create metrics which airlines could use to rate pilots during the training. Poor monitoring has been a key factor in recent high-profile crashes.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Vietnam Airlines plan to codeshare on key routes and cooperate in other areas following ANA’s commitment to purchase a minority stake in the Vietnamese carrier.
Allegiant Air said on Tuesday, Jan. 12, that it will launch 19 new seasonal and year-round routes from smaller and medium-size cities starting later this year, all of which it will fly less than-daily, an expansion that might not be viable without low fuel costs, an airline executive said in an interview.
Air India will lease up to 15 Airbus A320 aircraft to augment its fleet as it aspires to meet growing travel demand in the country’s highly competitive aviation market.
Fastjet Tanzania started flights to Kenya on Jan. 11, after obtaining the necessary approvals from the Kenyan authorities late last year following months of delay.
