PortsToronto, owner and operator of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, will not finish the process of evaluating whether the facility should permit jets—a development that almost certainly will keep Porter Airlines from flying Bombardier CS100s at its main hub for the foreseeable future.
60 Years Ago Dec. 14, 1955 —The U.S. Post Office continued experimenting with delivering mail by air for 3¢, after the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that “carrying ordinary first-class mail by air is within the statutory authority of Postmaster General and is authorized by law.” 36 Years Ago
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Dec. 14-16—ACI-NA/ACC Planning & NEPA Workshop, Washington, D.C., http://www.aci-na.org/event/6455 Jan. 4-8, 2016—AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, California, www.aiaa-scitech.org/GNC/
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.
Virgin Atlantic Airways is adding a new dimension to the well-established practice of secondary slot trading at London Heathrow Airport, by borrowing against its valuable slot portfolio at the airport.
Egypt’s investigator-in-charge for the Metrojet Airbus A321 accident says his committee has not received “information indicating unlawful interference” or a “terrorist act” in the Oct. 31. crash, contradicting assertions made by Russia’s Federal Security Police in mid-November that “a self-made explosive device equivalent of up to 1 kg of TNT” had been set off on board.
SkyTeam alliance partners Delta Air Lines and KLM are launching a new codeshare program with Jet Airways, the Indian airline that is 24% owned by Gulf carrier Etihad Airways.
A detailed study of more than 900 unmanned-aircraft sightings reported to the FAA by pilots and air traffic controllers has concluded that 90 involved encounters with commercial aircraft close enough to meet the agency’s definition of a near midair collision.
Honeywell says it will begin offering a traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS)-coupled autopilot option as part of a Primus Epic avionics-suite upgrade that will be available within the next two years.
The European Commission (EC) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will continue to “closely” monitor aviation safety in Thailand, but neither the country nor its airlines have been included in the EU’s airline blacklist.
System-performance improvements, in part due to recent space-borne receiver software upgrades, should allow space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) provider Aireon to offer air navigation service providers (ANSPs) with both terrestrial and oceanic ADS-B surveillance capabilities.
Avic is setting up a second airline to operate its unpopular commercial turboprop, this time a specialist cargo carrier using the MA600F, the freighter version of the type.
