April 16-18—MRO Americas 2013, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. April 17-18—MRO Military 2013, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga. May 7-8—Civil Aviation Manufacturing Conference, Charlotte, N.C. May 14-15—MRO Regional - Eastern Europe, Baltics and Russia, Radisson Blu Lletuva Vilnius, Lithuania Sept. 9-11—NEXTGEN AHEAD—Air Transportation Modernization Conference, The Dupont Circle Hotel, Washington, D.C. Sept. 24-26—MRO Europe 2013, ExCel, London, U.K. Oct. 29-31—MRO Asia, Singapore, SingEx
Airlines For America (A4A) is joining general aviation groups in their outcry against the Obama administration’s aviation tax proposals, even as the White House states that its proposed $100-per-flight air traffic control user fee is designed to bring parity to funding the air traffic control (ATC) system. The White House has long charged that business aircraft operators do not pay their fair share to help fund the national airspace system, and that the $100-per-flight user fee was an attempt to spread the costs more evenly.
Click here to view the pdf Top Carriers: Hong Kong - Taipei, April 15-21, 2013, Ranked By Scheduled Seats Top Carriers: Hong Kong - Taipei, April 15-21, 2013, Ranked By Scheduled Seats Daily Each Way
Global inflight entertainment and broadband communications provider Panasonic Avionics has bought the assets and 40-employee workforce of U.S.-based weather provider AirDat for an undisclosed amount.
Click here to view the pdf Mishandled Baggage Reports February 2013 Total Baggage Enplaned Reports Per 1,000 Passengers Rank Airline Reports Passengers
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is reducing the number of its regional structures from seven to five by merging its North and Latin American divisions into a single entity based in Miami and basing its Africa and Middle East offices in Amman, Jordan.
NASA plans to launch a program in fiscal 2014 to accelerate dramatically the development and certification of new composite materials and structures for aircraft, but also will re-evaluate its rotary-wing research with the aim of phasing out lower-priority work. The agency’s aeronautics research budget is planned to stay essentially flat to fiscal 2018, slipping just 0.6% to $565.7 million in the fiscal 2014 request. Funding is planned to stay at that slightly lower level for the rest of the five-year budget plan.
April 16-18—Airline Distribution 2013, Intercontinental Miami, Miami, Fla., www.uatp.com/news-and-events/AD-2013-Home.html April 16-18—World Aviation Training Conference and Tradeshow (WATS) 2013, Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, Orlando, Fla., www.halldale.com/wats-2013/overview April 16-18—ABACE 2013, 2013 Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition, Shanghai Hawker Pacific Business Aviation Service Centre, www.abace.aero/2012/
Kenya Airways has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-300F painted in Kenya Airways Cargo livery. It is the first of four 737-300 passenger aircraft owned by Kenya Airways and earmarked for conversion into freighters. A second one is due to arrive in Nairobi in July, but the timing of the other two conversions will depend on market conditions and demand.
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport Bi-County Board for Luzerne and Lackawanna counties is accepting Statements of Qualifications and Proposals from qualified Fixed Base Operators interested in performing Fixed Base Operator Services at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport. Statements of Qualifications and Proposals must be submitted by 1:30 p.m., Friday, May 10, 2013.
The Obama administration’s proposed budget for airport grants could have a big impact on small airports, despite assertions to the contrary in the budget documents, because of a “double entitlement” trigger in the funding formula for the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). The funding formula in the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, also known as AIR21, was enacted in 2000.
The FAA’S $928 million in proposed fiscal 2014 NextGen Facilities and Equipment (F&E) spending includes 25 funded line items, 15 of which either gain funding or maintain the level of fiscal 2012, the agency’s last full year of spending.
Lufthansa this fall will start the transfer of 25 Airbus A320s to its Germanwings affiliate under a plan to restructure the mainline carrier's non-hub operations. The transfer will increase Germanwings’ fleet to 84 aircraft consisting of 61 Airbus narrowbodies and 23 Bombardier CRJ900s.
Click here to view the pdf Fuel Watch: Global Jet Fuel Prices (midpoint) As of April 10, 2013, compared with previous week and previous year cts/gal prev. week prev.
Lufthansa is speeding up the retirement of its Boeing 737, 747-400 and Bombardier CRJ700 fleets to keep capacity flat during a period of increased new aircraft deliveries. Carsten Spohr, CEO of the group’s passenger airline division, tells Aviation Week that the airline will phase out all remaining Boeing 737-300s, 737-500s and Bombardier CRJ700s by the summer of 2015. Lufthansa currently operates 17 737-300s, 22 737-500s and 20 CRJ700s at Lufthansa CityLine. The company also will retire 12 Boeing 747-400s in the next three years but will retain the 13 youngest 747-400s.
Three House lawmakers have drafted a bill seeking to preserve funding slated to be cut from the contract air traffic control tower program beginning June 15. Reps. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) on April 10 introduced a bill, H.R.1432, the Air Traffic Control Tower Funding Restoration Act, which is designed to continue funding for the program. The bill, which was referred to the House Appropriations Committee, would use unobligated funds within the current FAA budget to pay for the program.
