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.
Pilots of an Ilyushin IL-76TD came within feet of landing on workers and equipment on a new, unfinished runway at Sharjah, partly because of a Jeppesen airport diagram that appeared to show the runway was open.
All A320s delivered to the airline starting in May 2016 will be configured with 186 seats. The retrofit program of its existing A320 fleet, which adds six seats per aircraft, will start in winter 2016. The retrofit should be complete by summer 2018.
VC said on May 13 that arbitration on all outstanding issues might be “doable.” It warns, however, that it is skeptical about trying to resolve “job-related topics” outside of arbitration, as proposed by Lufthansa.
De Juniac’s proposal draws its inspiration from European Union (EU) maritime guidelines in place since 1997 to address the lack of competitiveness of EU/European Economic Area (EEA) fleets in the global-shipping market and end the flagging-out of the European fleet and loss of EU seafarer jobs.
The airline’s decision will hinge on price and availability. The A321neo is likely best for the network—it could operate most routes without restrictions and allow the airline to add longer ones while reducing cost per seat-mile—but the aircraft is also most expensive with few delivery slots.
Trans States is supposed to take the MRJ90, but the base model of that aircraft has a maximum takeoff weight of 87,303 lbs., making it just heavier than the permitted scope limit at major U.S. carriers.
