Just over a week before it rolls out the first MRJ regional jet, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is performing system checks on the aircraft in preparation for a first flight due in second-quarter 2015.
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2014/10/avd_10_09_2014_dataw.pdf Data Watch: Scheduled Systemwide Airline Travel on U.S. Airlines Year-to-Date 2013 2014 % Change Passengers (in millions) 365.8 373.2 2 Flights (in thousands) 4,539.40 4,390.20 -3.3 Revenue Passenger Miles (in billions) 410.8 421 2.5
Austrian Airlines looks more likely to survive now that the airline has reached agreement with pilots and cabin crew on the basics of a new deal on pay, work conditions and pensions. The agreement—if finalized in the coming weeks—would become effective December 1. Details have not yet emerged and both Austrian and worker representatives have agreed not to comment publicly. It would end a bitter dispute spanning several years that almost put the airline out of business and led it to transfer all flight operations to regional subsidiary Tyrolean in 2012.
