The EU is “not wedded” to its emissions trading system (ETS) and would be willing to begin negotiating a global deal to reduce aviation greenhouse gas emissions, but it will retain its much-maligned ETS while an agreement is worked out.
Canada’s government could again block a strike at Air Canada should the carrier’s pilots approve and then proceed with a labor action. The Air Canada Pilots Association last week issued a strike vote, claiming it needed the authority to counter suspected lock-outs or enforced contract terms from the airline. The results of that ballot were scheduled for release late yesterday.
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With three new civil helicopter models set to enter certification testing or service this year, Russia’s rotary-wing industry is preparing for rapid growth following almost a decade of consolidation of airframe, engine and service providers. Displaying a model of its newest Mi-171A2 at the 2012 Heli-Expo in Dallas, Texas, Russian Helicopters says it expects to deliver some 301 aircraft in 2012, up from 262 last year and 214 in 2010.
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Embraer’s study of an upgrade for its family of E-Jets should be completed by the end of 2012, with Rolls-Royce now among the three engine makers being considered by the Brazilian airframer.
Indonesia is planning to buy new radars that will be used for national defense and commercial air traffic management. Lockheed Martin is proposing its TPS-77 and FPS-117 surveillance radars. In an effort to boost its chances of securing the contract, the U.S. company has teamed with local, privately owned company PT CMI Teknologi.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft, after years of centrally managing sales and marketing from Canada, is restructuring to the point where more than three quarters of employees working these functions will reside outside North America. “We’re regionalising all the sales offices,” Bombardier Commercial Aircraft senior VP sales, marketing and asset management Charles Fuller tells Aviation Week during the Singapore Airshow.
Faced with a cut in its fiscal 2013 aeronautics budget, NASA plans to reduce its hypersonics research but maintain spending on technologies for subsonic and supersonic fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft. NASA is requesting $551.5 million for aeronautics research in 2013, down from $569.4 million in 2012. “The budget is very tight. We got $18 million less than we requested,” says Jaiwon Shin, associate administrator for aeronautics.
Aviation security has improved dramatically over the past decade, but the cost to airlines and passengers in terms of time and money has risen sharply and new security processes need to be vetted and implemented, according to speakers yesterday at the Singapore air show Aviation Leadership Summit.
Virgin Australia is working to capitalize on the boom in Australia’s mining industry, a sector of the economy that is helping to drive demand for air services to some remote parts of the country. “It’s becoming more and more important. We’re becoming more actively involved in the mining industry,” particularly in Queensland and the northwest of Western Australia and Queensland, Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti told Aviation Week yesterday on the sidelines of the IATA Aviation Leadership Summit in Singapore.
People Express as a brand is attempting a comeback, with leadership that includes a handful of the personnel employed during its previous iteration as a ground-breaking but overly ambitious low-cost carrier in the 1980s. The new venture aims to begin service as soon as this summer and its founders are talking to airlines and lessors about obtaining seven to 10 Boeing 737-400 aircraft by year-end.
Royal Jordanian will consider restoring some routes it has cut once regional turmoil subsides and yields start recovering. The airline this month said it will stop flying to Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates, Munich and Brussels, and has plans to drop two additional points in the Persian Gulf region. The carrier also is reducing frequencies on routes to Amsterdam, Geneva, Rome, Vienna and Zurich, as well as Amman, Jordan; Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Kartoum, Sudan. Depending on advance bookings, there may be even more cuts later this year.
Boeing in the fourth quarter expects to begin major assembly work on the first 787-9 and complete most of the detailed design of the aircraft before year end as it moves to achieve first flight in mid-2013.
Rolls-Royce is counting on large productivity gains to ensure it gets a sizable return from its S$700 million (US$558 million) investment in Singapore. The U.K. engine-maker has built an engine assembly plant, wide-chord hollow-titanium fan blade factory, training center and a research laboratory at Singapore’s Seletar Aerospace Park. It is the company’s first such fan blade factory outside of the U.K. and its first engine assembly plant outside Europe.
Philippine Airlines hopes the FAA will remove restrictions on service to the U.S. before year-end, but recognizes it will be hard to achieve before June. “The FAA visited the Philippines two weeks ago to do a technical review. The info we got, is they have seen a lot of improvement and hopefully in a few weeks the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) will be ready for a full audit,” PAL CEO Jaime Bautista told Aviation Week on the sidelines of the IATA Aviation Leadership Summit in Singapore on Feb. 13.
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French engine maker Turbomeca is seeing a rebound in business and predicts a buoyant 2012-2013 due to new sales and increased production. “The trough is behind us and the market is picking up again,” says Turbomeca Chairman and CEO Olivier Andries, noting that engine deliveries climbed to 950 in 2011, a 20% increase from 2010. “We also repaired 1,450 engines, which is 10% higher than 2010,” he adds.
Management at Mexicana de Aviacion, in preparation for a return to service, has obtained regulatory approval for a safety management system (SMS). Approval of the SMS manual “is a result of Mexicana’s management restructuring process preparing the airline for the resumption of operations,” says Senior VP-Air Safety Luis Garcia Perez.
Singapore’s government is taking an active role in ensuring that the city-state retains its pre-eminence in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) in the Asia-Pacific region, Lim Kok Kiang, executive director of transport engineering for the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), said at the Singapore Airshow. MRO comprises more than 90% of Singapore’s aerospace industry, and the city-state accounts for 25% of the Asia-Pacific region’s MRO industry. However, growing competition from nearby, lower-wage countries is giving Singapore pause, says Lim.
The Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 budget proposal is not making U.S. airlines and airports happy, even with its proposed 11% increase in funding for the NextGen air traffic control system. The reason for discontent among airlines is that the administration is sticking with its proposal for a $100-per-flight surcharge for commercial airline and business jet operators for using the air traffic control system, and to as much as triple the security fee on airline passengers.
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