The pilots unions at American Airlines and US Airways are working out an agreement with US Airways management that would clear another hurdle for the Tempe, Ariz.-based carrier’s bid for American, Aviation Week has learned.
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The airline industry could be poised to regain the upward momentum that faltered badly in 2011, with new analysis signaling that the decline has leveled off and even started to reverse.
WestJet has again deferred plans to reconfigure its Boeing 737 fleet with four rows of premium economy seating because it has yet to be granted regulatory approval from Transport Canada.
Lufthansa is adding a second executive to Brussels Airlines’ management team, but the Belgian carrier dismisses “as speculation” that this means Lufthansa will embark on a full takeover. Lufthansa Group in 2008 acquired a 45% stake in Brussels Airlines’ parent company SN Airholding for €65 million ($85.6 million), with an option to acquire the remaining shares, 40% of which are held by Belgian financial institutions and companies. Virgin Group owns the remaining 15%.
Lufthansa, United Airlines and Air Canada have offered to make up to seven weekly slots pairs available to competitors on the Frankfurt–New York route to address EU competition concerns about their transatlantic A++ joint venture (JV).
Airlines in Asia, Europe and South America are interested in the new 90-seat turboprop that ATR plans to make, but despite this ATR appears to have made little headway in persuading EADS to support the program.
President Barack Obama has signed the No-Hassle Flying Act into law, giving the Transportation Security Administration the discretion to exempt checked baggage from a screening on U.S. soil if the baggage originated from a country with comparable aviation security measures.
The final report on the May 9, 2012, crash of a Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company Superjet 100 prototype on a demonstration flight near Jakarta highlights a growing trend in fatal airline accidents: the re-emergence of controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) as a major contributor to airline fatalities. “[The Superjet accident] is in keeping with the rising trend in CFIT accidents over the past two years,” says Jim Burin, director of technical programs at the Flight Safety Foundation. “We had hoped we were getting rid of them.”
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will proceed with an independent study commissioned to investigate potential radiation emissions from backscatter passenger screening machines.
Myanma Airways is expecting to add a second Embraer 190 to its fleet early next year after just receiving the first of the type. Lessor GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), says Myanma “will complete flight crew training and other transition work by the end of 2012,” and that it is scheduled to deliver a second E-190 in early 2013 “before Myanma Airways inaugurates domestic and international flights with the aircraft.”
Australia’s competition regulator says a partnership between Qantas and Emirates Airline should be allowed to proceed, although the agency also has signaled its intention to impose capacity conditions in the Australia-New Zealand market.
U.S. low-cost carrier Allegiant Air‘s pending purchase of up to nine used Airbus A320 aircraft at an age that appears to match what the carrier has previously described as its “sweet spot” in the used narrowbody market.
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), fearing that the FAA is failing to address privacy concerns involving unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), is taking steps to mandate privacy protections and public transparency as the agency begins to facilitate the introduction of UAS into the national airspace system. Markey on Dec. 18 introduced a bill, H.R.6676, the Drone Aircraft Privacy Transparency Act, calling for disclosure about the use of UAS and for warrant requirements for law enforcement use.
FedEx Express experienced a weaker second quarter than anticipated as a 6% increase in costs outpaced a 4% increase in revenue growth. The airfreight unit’s operating costs totaled $6.6 billion for the quarter, while revenues reached $6.9 billion, the company reports in its quarterly earnings statement. The biggest jump among operating costs came from purchased transportation, which grew 36% from the same quarter last year. Operating income for the three-month period fell 33% year-on-year to $230 million.
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