Air France CEO Alexandre de Juniac says new partner Air Berlin will have to decide if it will remain a member of the Oneworld alliance. De Juniac said in an interview with German daily FAZ that the two carriers plan to get to know each other better in the coming months. But if they move closer, Air Berlin “would have to decide to stay in Oneworld or to change over to Air France-KLM’s SkyTeam” alliance.
United Parcel Service (UPS) in the next few weeks will tell the European Commission (EC) how competition would be preserved if the governing body approves its takeover of TNT Express, a spokeswoman tells Aviation Week. The U.S.-based cargo carrier will respond to the EC’s recent statement of objections with a list of remedies, the spokeswoman says. She declined to outline specific arguments, citing confidentiality requirements.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has implemented a hiring freeze of cadet pilots for its mainline operation, citing “operational requirements.” An SIA spokesman says it is unclear when the carrier will start recruiting cadets again. “Based on the operational requirements, we have had to adjust the number,” the spokesman says. “We have an excess of first officers at the moment.” SIA mainline recruited some cadets earlier this year.
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The FAA has proposed costly replacements of engine air intake cowl components for certain Boeing 757 operators, giving some as little as 12 months to perform the swaps. A notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published Friday orders replacement engine air intake cowl forward bulkhead assemblies, thermal anti-ice spray ring assemblies, and attachment fittings on Rolls-Royce-powered 757s. Estimated costs are $180,000 per affected engine, the agency says.
Iceland’s Isavia has begun site acceptance tests on an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) network that is expected to be a vital link in the first transatlantic air traffic control corridor. The eight ADS-B ground stations in Iceland will augment existing radar coverage over a vast area of the Northern Atlantic, and ADS-B surveillance eventually will be extended to the East and West thanks to networks that will be established in Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Honeywell says its business and commercial aviation products were top performers among its four business sectors in the third quarter and will remain so through 2013, despite expectations for a continued slowdown in the global economy. Sales for the Aerospace division, which includes business and commercial aviation as well as defense and space, were up 4% to $3 billion year-over-year in the third quarter due to a 9% increase in commercial product sales. Defense and space revenue decreased 1%.
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Albert Lee Ueltschi, a farm boy who became one of aviation's giants through his founding and long leadership of FlightSafety International, died of natural causes late Thursday, Oct. 18. He was 95.
Orders for spares and aftermarket services are expected to fuel GE Aviation’s fourth-quarter and 2013 growth, CEO Jeffrey Immelt tells analysts Oct. 19. “[Revenue passenger miles] are still up, so we believe there will be a pent-up demand for services and spares that we expect will be positive for 2013,” Immelt says. Also, the company expects to see a large increase in production of GEnx engines in the fourth quarter, up to “close to 60” units this year, compared with 35 in the same period last year.
As governments take an increasingly risk-based approach to aviation security, an industry-driven cargo group has aligned with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to establish guidelines for such efforts. The Global Air Cargo Advisory Group (GACAG) and ICAO have agreed on a risk-based approach to screening the supply chain—airports, airlines, air forwarders, and more—that also loops in governments around the world, GACAG Chairman Michael Steen tells Aviation Week.
