Delta Air Lines—which offers flatbed seats on flights from New York to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO)—will increase its transcontinental offerings in November, spokesman Anthony Black said.
Relations between Republic and IBT leaders are rocky—the union even filed a federal lawsuit last month against the company, accusing it of overpaying pilots in an attempt to undercut its bargaining position—and it’s not clear whether labor leaders want pilots to vote on the proposal.
The Delta Master Executive Council (MEC) of ALPA endorsed the tentative labor deal in June and sent it to the airline’s nearly 13,000 pilots for a ratification vote.
Details of the new agreement will not be released until the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council (MEC) has reviewed and approved the new contract, the union and FedEx said.
“That KLM would disappear is unthinkable. Because without the airline there is no future for Schiphol, it is as simple as that,” Schiphol Group CEO Jos Nijhuis said.
FAA recently warned that “pilot reports of unmanned aircraft have increased dramatically over the past year, from a total of 238 sightings in all of 2014 to more than 650 by Aug. 9 of this year.”
The U.K. Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB), which investigated the incident at London’s Heathrow Airport on July 12, said it was caused by the uncontrolled release of stored energy from the lithium-manganese dioxide battery in the Honeywell-produced Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT).
Australia’s competition watchdog has approved a closer partnership between Qantas and China Eastern Airlines, reversing an earlier draft ruling that denied the application.
Aer Lingus shares are to be de-listed, and control and ownership of the Irish flag carrier is moving to International Airlines Group (IAG) after Ryanair’s formal acceptance of the IAG offer. Ryanair’s board voted unanimously to sell its near-30% shareholding in Aer Lingus on July 10; however, the LCC refrained from accepting the IAG offer at the Aer Lingus last month. It also deliberately missed the July 30 deadline for Aer Lingus shareholders to accept the offer.
In a note to flight attendants, United executives said they preferred the groups employ independent arbitrators in hopes they could reach a tentative agreement as soon as Sept. 30.
To minimize the impact of any design changes resulting from flight test, “our strategy has been to wait until we were past 80% through certification, to make sure we have a mature aircraft before ramping up,” says Rob Dewar, vice president and general manager for C Series.
The next reauthorization could be a game-changer for the FAA and industry, with Congress mulling a separation of the agency’s safety and air traffic control (ATC) roles, similar to the privatized air traffic control models in Canada and Europe.
The decision comes with significant delay and could, in theory, still be derailed after general elections in Greece that are now believed to be scheduled for Sept. 20.
The carrier has placed an initial order for eight 787-9s: Four of the aircraft will be delivered in its fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, and the other four will join the fleet in 2018.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx met with Kansas aviation leaders and government officials Aug. 19 in a discussion about FAA reauthorization, drones, certification and other issues facing the industry.
