You can now register online for Aviation Week events. Go to www.aviationweek.com/conferences or contact: Lydia Janow, 212-904-3225 or 800-240-7645 ext. 5 (U.S. and Canada only) Jan. 22-23, 2013—MRO Middle East, DWTC Dubai World Trade Centre, Dubai, UAE March 5-6—Defense Technology & Affordability Requirements, Hilton Arlington, Arlington, Va. March 7—Laureate Awards 2013, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. April 16-18—MRO Americas 2013, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Ga.
Newly appointed Mexican Transport Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza has said the government will not intervene in Mexicana de Aviacion’s restructuring, putting an end to rumors that President Enrique Pena Nieto’s government would recapitalize the airline. Ruiz said no government funds will be used to recapitalize the airline, Mexicana’s pilots union, ASPA, says in a message to members. Pena Nieto had made it a campaign pledge to revive the airline, despite opposition from the CEOs of Mexico’s other carriers.
JetBlue Airways CEO Dave Barger is pleased with the New York-based carrier’s bookings for December, although he stops short of saying that the airline’s bookings have completely recovered from the damage Hurricane Sandy caused in and around the airline’s hometown.
Taiwanese carrier China Airlines (CAL) has disclosed that it will place an order for six Boeing 777-300ERs. The airline’s board approved the purchase Dec. 6, says a CAL spokeswoman. The airline’s management is now free to sign a binding contract with Boeing. CAL hopes to receive the first deliveries in 2014 and use them as replacements for some Boeing 747-400s, the spokeswoman says. .
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] Dec. 11-13—Middle East Business Aviation Conference, Al Maktoum International Airport, Dubai World Central, United Arab Emirates, +44 (208) 846-2740, www.meba.aero Jan. 9-11, 2013—Airports Council International-North America, 2013 Risk Management Conference, Las Vegas, Nev, www.aci-na.org/event/2406/ Jan. 18-20—Wings Over Wairarapa 2013, Hood Aerodrome, Masterton, New Zealand, www.wings.org.nz/
Airlines For America has named Keith Glatz, senior negotiator for the Office of International Aviation and Affairs for the U.S. Transportation Department, to the new role of VP-international affairs.
The three-way mobile technology joint venture that includes a U.S. low-cost carrier is launching its first product this month, an iPad that lets flight attendants automate incident and cabin defect reports, digitize paper manuals and send secure emails.
Rusdi Kirana’s Transportation Partners has appointed its first chief of risk assessment, a significant appointment because it means the newly established Singapore-based aircraft leasing company has some capability to lease to airlines outside of Kirana’s airline group, Lion Air.
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Southwest Chairman, President and CEO Gary Kelly “suspects” the airline will take delivery of more Boeing 737-800s after it receives nearly 80 of them by the end of 2014 because that is a low number to have for a subfleet, the executive told Aviation Week.
US Airways will launch an automated shipping platform called CargoSpot in early 2013, Todd Anderson, managing director-cargo, tells Aviation Week. Customers will be able to use the web-based portal to reserve cargo shipments, rather than go through the carrier’s call center in Campbellsville, Ky. “The fact of the matter is, it’s the year 2012, and nobody wants to call somebody to book a cargo shipment or a flight reservation. They want to be able to do it online,” Anderson says.
American Airlines’ pilots union voted overwhelmingly to ratify the new tentative agreement, removing the last hurdle for the carrier to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Members of the Allied Pilots Association (APA) voted 5,489 to 1,951 for the new contract. APA says 96% of eligible members cast ballots, and the union officially certified the results.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), by the start of 2013, will have in place an agency-wide policy to handle passenger complaints on security screening at airports. The move follows a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found inconsistencies in the way the agency receives and assesses complaints and offered recommendations to remedy the problem. The GAO last week presented its findings to the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure aviation subcommittee.
Rolls-Royce (R-R) has passed details of an internal review to the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) relating to concerns about corruption in the Far East. In a statement on Dec. 6, the engine maker said the move followed requests for information from the SFO about what it calls “allegations of malpractice in Indonesia and China," adding that it has “identified matters of concern in these and in other overseas markets.”
Delta Air Lines, taking another big step in plans to upgauge its fleet and reduce the number of 50-seat regional jets to 125 or fewer by 2015, reached an agreement with Bombardier under which it will acquire at least 40 new 76-seat CRJ900 NextGen aircraft and send back 60 of its 50-seat CRJ200s to Bombardier. “We will exchange aircraft,” a Delta spokesman says. “We will take 40, and they will take 60.”
Reforming cabotage rules and ensuring the global cooperation to negotiation multilateral—rather than merely bilateral—air services agreements are critical to aviation’s future, John Byerly, former lead U.S. negotiator on open-skies agreements said yesterday.
Boeing says electrical system problems that caused the crew of a United Airlines 787 to divert to Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Dec. 4 were triggered by the failure of one of the aircraft’s six main electric generators.
