FAA has tasked a rulemaking advisory committee with studying pilot fitness, including emotional and mental heath, and issuing recommendations on any rule changes or guidance within six months. The effort, recommended by the Commercial Aviation Safety Team, is a direct response to the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525, among others, FAA says. The Germanwings co-pilot apparently flew the aircraft into the ground intentionally after locking the pilot out of the cockpit.”U.S.
IAG formally launched its offer to acquire Aer Lingus for €2.55 ($2.77) per share after the Irish government officially stated that it is happy with the guarantees IAG management has given in terms of routes and job security.
Air Canada is raising the bar, saying it will soon offer a more-luxurious product than WestJet, removing its current 3-by-3 Rouge seating with blocked middles and installing two traditional business-class seats on each aisle.
American says it will receive certification in time to launch two daily Los Angeles-Honolulu frequencies beginning Aug. 18. American flies the route five times daily, with four Boeing 757s and one Boeing 767.
The FAA is staging ground collisions between representative aircraft wings and landing gear with approach lights and landing aids to develop standardized test procedures for evaluating the “frangibility” of landing aids and light towers near runways.
Two months after the TBS system was switched on at the airport on March 24, NATS has said that early results indicated the system will help to halve headwind delays—the biggest cause of arrival delays at the two-runway airport.
MHI has painted the fifth aircraft in the colors of launch customer All Nippon Airways (ANA). A photograph issued by Mitsubishi Aircraft shows the outer wing boxes have not been attached to the inner wing box, however.
SNC—which holds the type certificate for the two aircraft models through recently purchased Germany-based subsidiary 328 Support Services GmbH—has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications to upgrade and build the two aircraft in Turkey.
Laura Glading is National President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), a charter member of the Partnership for Open & Fair Skies. The Partnership is a broad coalition of American stakeholders whose mission is to promote the enforcement of open skies policies.
Laura Glading is National President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), a charter member of the Partnership for Open & Fair Skies. The Partnership is a broad coalition of American stakeholders whose mission is to promote the enforcement of open skies policies.
The airline estimates that connections from its Australian network will contribute at least as much revenue as New Zealand-originating passengers on its Auckland-Buenos Aires flight, due to launch in December.
In particular, CPDLC will be used sending initial and amended departure clearances to an aircraft, an option that airlines say can shave minutes or more from a flight while increasing safety by removing human error in comprehending, copying and downloading the information into the avionics.
Air Lituanica on April 30 launched a new route to Hamburg, its third gateway in Germany, and on May 15 confirmed it had concluded an agreement with Travelport to distribute its content globally.
The Edgeworth Report—the second white paper commissioned by Etihad since the dispute between major U.S. and Gulf carriers began—dismisses what it says are “simplistic claims” in a report produced by Compass Lexecon.
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/05/avd_05_22_2015_fuelw.pdf Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint)* As of May 20, 2015, compared with previous week and previous year cts/gal prev. week prev. year NY Jet Barges 187.39 -6.61 -104.26
Boeing is confident that a steady uptick in air-freight demand will result in a full market recovery by 2017, which could bode well for its factory-new freighter offerings, notably the Boeing 747-8F. “It’s still a challenging market for everybody, but with some growth in some of these really key areas and concentrated in the Asia-Pacific, in particular,” Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner said at the company’s annual investor day last week.
