The upgrade is part of a broader FAA “Destination 2025” safety goal to reduce commercial-airline fatality rate by 24%, to 6.2 deaths per 100 million passengers per year, by 2018, and to reduce the general-aviation rate to no more than 1 fatal accident per 100,000 flight hours, also by 2018.
Operators have until Jan. 1, 2020, to equip their aircraft to fly in controlled air spaces as the FAA focuses on putting the Next Generation Air Transportation System in place.
The act takes a number of concrete steps to cut through barriers and allow commercial drone operations in the U.S. while protecting the public, according to a statement by Information Technology and Innovation Foundation Vice President Daniel Castro.
For a complete list of Aviation Week’s upcoming events, and to register, visit www.aviationweek.com/events Jun. 17, 2015—Commercial Aerospace Manufacturing Briefing C0-located with the International Paris Air Show, Auditorium, (Conference Centre - Hall 2C), 9:00am-11:15am Oct. 13-15, 2015—MRO Europe, ExCel London Exhibition and Convention Center, London, U.K. Nov. 4-6, 2015—MRO Asia, SingEx Exhibition and Convention Center, Singapore.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) May 19-21—Aviation Fuel Forum, Palau de Congressos de Catalunya and Hotel Fairmont Rey Juan Carlos I, Barcelona, Spain, www.iata.org/events/aff/Pages/index.aspx
Frontier Airlines CEO David Siegel resigned this week, citing personal reasons. Frontier announced that Siegel’s duties would be split by Chairman Bill Franke, who will handle strategy and finance, and President Barry Biffle, who will oversee day-to-day operations. Siegel, a former US Airways CEO, was a holdover from Denver-based Frontier’s previous owner, Republic Airways Holdings. Franke’s Indigo Group acquired Frontier in late 2013.
American, Delta and United chiefs say they have other avenues to pursue if the Obama administration does not move quickly on allegations about Etihad, Emirates and Qatar.
A report written at Etihad’s request by the Risk Advisory Group says Delta, including Northwest Airlines, accepted $15 billion in benefits, and United, including Continental Airlines, was given $44.4 billion.
After receiving supervisory board approval on May 12, Europe’s largest integrated-tourism conglomerate finalized a Boeing order for one 787-9, with an option for another of the type.
The two will offer candidates the opportunity to train from no prior flight experience to a qualified A320 first officer. FlightSafety will train the candidates to be qualified pilots, while Airbus will train them to be qualified on Airbus equipment.
Wroclaw Aircraft Maintenance Services (WAMS) will be the airline’s first such facility in Poland, which will have a two-bay hangar able to provide C checks on the airline’s Boeing 737 fleet. Construction is due to start this November, and it is scheduled to open in March 2016.
The Shannon Airport-based maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider entered bankruptcy protection earlier this year, after its troubled Russian parent company, Transaero Airlines, required a large financial bailout from the Russian government.
Several European countries and airports recorded double-digit passenger-traffic growth in the first quarter, while a select number of countries—Russia, Ukraine and Austria—reported traffic declines.
Kevin Mitchell is founder of the Business Travel Coalition, and OpenSkies.travel, a broad coalition of global stakeholders whose mission is to promote Open Skies policies. Communities that have lost jobs and connectivity to global business and leisure destinations—because of consolidation engineered by the “Big Three” U.S. carriers (Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines)—support open skies policy and foreign-carrier entry.
Nearly all of the next-generation models from Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. and Embraer have two problems: too many seats and a maximum takeoff weight that is too heavy for most mainline union contracts governing regional jet size.
Group CEO Akbar al Baker came to the District to give his first full response to the campaign—headed by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and some U.S. labor groups—alleging state-owned Qatar, Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways have benefited from government subsidies totaling $42 billion.
While analysts and journalists continue to ask how Republic could possibly take delivery of the jets given its current business model, Bedford stresses that the CS300 program is just getting off the ground, having made its first flight on Feb. 27.
“What we should have in this country is a nonprofit commercial entity that would be in charge of air traffic control operations and could make decisions on a business basis with a constant supply of funding,” A4A President Nick Calio said during a panel discussion at the RAA convention here.
