To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 4-8, 2016—AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/GNC/ Jan. 4-8, 2016—34th Wind Energy Symposium, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/WindEnergy/
For a complete list of Aviation Week’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.awin.aviationweek.com/events Jan. 21-22, 2016—MRO Latin America, Lima, Peru. Feb. 3-4, 2016—MRO Middle East, Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE. Mar. 3, 2016—Laureate Awards, The National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
San Diego International Airport does not expect a new pedestrian passenger bridge connecting Southern California to Tijuana, Mexico, to have much direct effect upon operations, but it could increase competition to some beach destinations in Mexico.
The company and its major shareholder, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), are vague on specific reasons for the schedule slip, the fourth since the program launched in 2008.
Vueling has signed three interline agreements with Cathay Pacific, Hainan Airlines and Royal Jordanian covering routes to and from its hubs at Barcelona-El Prat and Rome Fiumicino airports.
HNA Group is planning the revival of its subsidiary in the northwestern Chinese province Shaanxi as the next major airline project after establishing Ningbo Airlines next year.
HNA Group subsidiary Ningbo Airlines—already established as a company but not yet ready for operations—should begin flying next year, following the arrival of support from its other intending shareholder: the government of the city of Ningbo in eastern China.
Air Canada will fly daily from Vancouver to Brisbane, Australia, starting June 17, rather than the three-times-weekly service initially announced for the new route, the carrier said on Dec. 20. Air Canada suggested it changed after the governments of Canada and Australia reworked their bilateral agreement in early December, allowing carriers to add considerable capacity (see story page 2). Each country is now allowing 6,000 seats per week in overall capacity, up from 3,000. By December 2016, the two nations will each permit 9,000 weekly seats.
Passing a safety audit by European regulators represents an important milestone for Thai Airways, after other countries sought to restrict Thailand-based airlines because of concerns about oversight deficiencies.
Sensing a late opportunity this winter and spring in Orlando, Frontier Airlines is adding two new seasonal routes in February: one to Minneapolis and the other to Omaha, Nebraska.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is giving operators of the Airbus A350 until Jan. 11 to begin daily post-flight checks of the aircraft’s two inboard ailerons to verify that the electro-hydrostatic actuators (EHAs) that drive the roll-control surfaces are working correctly.
