To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) June 19—The Society Of Experimental Test Pilots, 9th Annual Central Section Symposium, Wichita, Kansas, www.setp.org/symposium/meetings/central/ June 22-26—Aviation Forum 2015, Dallas, Texas, www.aiaa-aviation.org/
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/06/avd_06_05_2015_fuelw.pdf Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of June 3, 2015, compared with previous week and previous year cts/gal prev. week prev. year NY Jet Barges 181.55 1.82 -101.6
Alaska Airlines is expected to conduct a biofuel demonstration flight next year using alcohol-to-jet fuel produced from forest residues, through a project to use waste left over from logging and reduce the risk of wildfires in the Pacific Northwest.
“We’ve probably seen over 30 customers and talked to them about really what they are looking for in an airplane bigger than the 737 MAX family,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes Senior Vice President John Wojick says.
“A majority of regions posted strong increases in April compared to a year ago,” IATA noted, singling out the Asia-Pacific region’s 9.0% rise in international markets, India’s 20.7% domestic-market jump, and the 8.2% increase posted by Middle Eastern carriers as particularly noteworthy.
By the interiors specialist’s own figures, it landed 90% of super-first-class and food-and-beverage handling orders placed last year, and 60% of all business-class seats.
AirAsia X senior executives say they are optimistic the carrier will return to the black, due to positive trends they are seeing in passenger demand and financial performance so far this year.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) plans to extend the authority for the two carriers to cooperate on routes between the U.S. and Australia, and on domestic routes beyond their respective gateways.
The report—which details “red team” undercover investigators’ efforts to bring banned items through passenger checkpoints—is classified, and Johnson is not discussing specific results.
The London Heliport in Battersea currently enjoys an exemption from the EASA rule CAT.POL.H.305, which defines additional monitoring regimes that operators need to adopt when operating helicopters where there is no assured safe forced landing capability.
The Dutch government has no problem with the recent increase of the French state’s shareholding in Air France-KLM from 15.88% to 17.58%. The expansion of French interest does not lead to a “fundamental shift in balance” at the Franco-Dutch group, Minister of Finance Jeroen Dijsselbloem said. According Dijsselbloem, the French government had notified him of the plans in advance of the purchase of the additional shares.
Flights within North America now account for about 45% of Air Canada’s network, a number that has been steady since 2010. But by 2018, those flights will constitute 38% of the network.
