Bellemare reaffirmed that the initial CS100 version of the CSeries is on track for certification by year-end, with some 1,500 hr. of a planned 2,400-hr. flight-testing completed. The 110-seat airliner is planned to enter service with launch customer Swiss, owned by Lufthansa, in the first half of 2016.
“Frankly, the [First Officer Qualification] places an emphasis on flight time that favors candidates who have amassed 1,500 hr. over candidates who have undertaken academic pathways through their piloting career but have not amassed 1,500 hr.,” said Faye Malarkey Black, interim president of the Regional Airline Association.
The document, published May 6, revealed that Lubitz made suspicious altitude inputs on the outbound flight from Düsseldorf to Barcelona on the same day.
Europe-Asia flows are particularly important for future orders of very large aircraft (VLA), including the A380, said Andrew Gordon, Airbus director of strategic marketing and analysis.
Europe-Asia flows are particularly important for future orders of very large aircraft (VLA), including the A380, said Andrew Gordon, Airbus director of strategic marketing and analysis.
In the case of the largest Chinese carrier, China Southern, the shift in fuel prices helped cut unit costs by about 7%, analysts at Singaporean brokerage UOB Kay Hian have estimated.
Delta Air Lines—which paid out $500 million to shareholders in first-quarter dividends and buybacks—has been leading the shareholder-return parade, establishing a dividend in May 2013 and launching a share-repurchase plan. As the carrier’s above-market fuel hedges wear off, it will have even more cash to invest or give back to its owners.
Companies involved in newsgathering, agriculture and rail transport have partnered with the FAA in the hope of extending operations of small unmanned aircraft beyond the limits outlined in proposed rules unveiled in January.
However, “in the past 6-9 months, the retirement rates have eased off slightly,” said David Rushe, a sales and marketing manager for Magellan Aviation Group.
The Qatari national airline already operates three daily services to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) with Airbus A340 and A380 aircraft, and now appears to have secured traffic rights to fly three times a week each to Nice-Côte d’Azur and Lyon-Saint Exupéry, respectively.
Virgin America’s obvious move for both slots would have been to add Dallas flights, but competitive pressures have made that impossible. Virgin America is flying Dallas-LaGuardia four times daily, as announced in August 2014, but is flying Dallas-DCA only three times, one fewer than expected.
Mueller officially took over his new role on May 1, and has immediately been forced to address media reports that the airline plans to sell its fleet of Airbus A380s.
The carrier confirms that the negotiating committees of the company and the Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association (HKAOA) have signed the tentative pay deal. However, it must still be ratified by members. Terms have not been disclosed.
Lufthansa’s first-quarter results provide yet another example of the strong influence that exchange rates exert over the airline business, and how little airlines can do about it.
Kratky, 57, has been nominated by the company, but still needs formal confirmation by Austrian’s board of directors, which is scheduled to meet on May 12.
“March data [show] a correction in volumes after the spike in February, when we saw the positive impact of the Lunar New Year and modal shift owing to seaport congestion in the U.S.,” IATA explains.
SmartPath, to date the only FAA-certified system on the market, is installed at several airports around the world, including Newark, Houston, Sydney and Frankfurt.
Embraer reported a $61.7 million first-quarter net loss, a reversal from the $110.6 million net profit in the year-ago quarter. The Brazilian manufacturer attributed the loss mostly to income tax expenses of $118 million. First-quarter revenue was down 14.5% to $1.06 billion, compared to $1.24 billion in the year-ago quarter. Embraer delivered 20 commercial jets and booked new firm orders for 22 commercial jets in the first quarter. At the end of the quarter, it had a $20.4 billion backlog, compared to a $19.2 billion backlog a year ago.
“Emirates does not receive and never has received any form of subsidy from the UAE (United Arab Emirates) government,” the company says in its “Open Sky” government affairs newsletter. “And considering that we have operated to the U.S. since 2004, we fail to understand how we can possibly be competing unfairly in 2015.”
