Pinnacle Airlines’ pilots union claims the regional carrier’s Chapter 11 restructuring proposal unfairly targets the work group. According to the local Air Line Pilots Association chapter, Pinnacle’s pilots represent 58% of the company’s total labor costs but account for 78% of the carrier’s $76 million concessions package. The overall demands, the union says, “are neither fair nor equitable to the Pinnacle pilots,” even with some changes the airline recently made to work rules.
Etihad Airways, Air France-KLM and Air Berlin have signed a code-sharing agreement that includes routes among their hubs and a selected number of destinations beyond their main bases. The deal, due to become effective Oct. 28, includes both operating units of the Air France-KLM group, Air France and KLM.
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From the outside, Boeing’s EcoDemonstrator looks like any other American Airlines 737-800, but beneath the skin this is a flying testbed for near-, mid- and long-term technologies the manufacturer hopes will dramatically improve efficiency and safety while reducing noise and fuel burn.
Air India on Oct. 5 took delivery of the first Boeing 787 built at the airframer’s Charleston, N.C., facility—the first U.S. commercial jet airliner to be produced away from the Puget Sound or heritage West Coast sites. The aircraft is Air India’s third 787 and marks the 28th 787 delivered since entry-into-service. Some 25 of the model have been handed over during the course of this year, and the rate continues to accelerate as Boeing completes the refurbishment of earlier production aircraft.
BBA Aviation appointed Luke Chiang regional sales manager for Asia Pacific and Grant Boast for Sub-Saharan Africa. Wayne Thomson is the new regional field service engineer for Australasia.
Qatar Airways on Oct. 8 is expected to finally announce it will join the Oneworld alliance, and Oneworld will celebrate the deal as an important milestone in its development. The question is: What development? The past few weeks have seen fundamental change in the landscape of long-haul air travel. Qantas Airways was the first to announce a U-turn by forming a bilateral partnership with archrival Emirates Airline while dropping a long-standing joint venture with British Airways.
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Just days before the Oct. 10 deadline for merger negotiations between EADS and BAE Systems, there is still no sign that the companies and relevant European governments have developed a common strategy to proceed with the consolidation effort. An agreement by the deadline looks increasingly unlikely. BAE Systems could apply for an extension, but industry sources say the manufacturer is opposed to such a move.
The deal has been in the making for more than a year, and now—after this lengthy process—the Lufthansa board of directors has finally approved what is a pretty dramatic breakthrough for the carrier’s modus operandi: The group is setting up a subsidiary for European direct services, operating a fleet of around 90 aircraft. The unit will be headquartered at Cologne/Bonn Airport in Germany.
Without better segmentation of the market and more accurate flight time data, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says a 10-year FAA program to reduce general aviation (GA) fatality rates 10% by 2018 could miss its intended goal and could leave behind certain “riskier” segments of the industry. Safety statistics from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reveal that the overall number of GA fatalities per 100,000 flight hours has consistently decreased since 2009, the baseline for the FAA’s 10-year program.
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India’s airline regulator has given Kingfisher Airlines, which has been grounded since Sept. 30 by an employee strike demanding months of unpaid wages, two weeks to prove it should retain its operating certificate. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Friday issued a warning to the airline “asking why its permit should not be canceled or suspended, as the airline has failed to establish a safe, efficient and reliable service,” a government official tells Aviation Week.
Communications Integrated Services (DCIS) contract in September, would like to accelerate the disbursement of $80 million in avionics aid for select airlines to begin demonstrating benefits of the data communications (datacomm) technology to the broader community by 2015.
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Boeing 737 operators have six years to modify cabin pressurization loss warning systems, including installing redundant pressure switches and new warning modules, FAA orders in an airworthiness directive (AD 2012-19-11).
The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) says there is “anecdotal evidence” that the number of ramp and taxiway incidents and accidents at airports have not decreased as the result of a guidelines and best practices the organization developed for its ground accident prevention (GAP) program. “We will make the decision later this fall on whether we’ll put [a new program] on the 2013 calendar,” says Kevin Hiatt, FSF chief operating officer. “We would call it GAP 2.”
