FAA and other federal agencies will have their funding extended through Dec. 14 due to a continuing resolution attached to the Defense appropriations bill. The bill was approved last week by House and Senate conferees.
Vought Aircraft Industries' CEO says the company has alerted Boeing to the challenges it faces in getting materials to build certain sections of the Boeing 787 fuselage, telling the airframer, "We need help."
Humberto Folegatti, founder and president of the Brazilian regional carrier, resigned last week as president but will continue performing in the company as board chairman.
India's central cabinet has approved a flying and aviation training institute to be set up as a joint venture between the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and CAE, Canada.
BAA traffic at its seven U.K. airports rose 3.5% to 13.2 million passengers year over year in November. Traffic in the North Atlantic drove the increase, up 8.9% in October. Other long-haul traffic also improved, with an 8.5% increase during the month. But U.K. domestic traffic continued its recent decline, with a drop of 2.4% in October. European scheduled traffic was up by 4.3%, but charters were down 3.2%.
Appointed Senior VP-Finance and Principal Accounting Officer Ed Barnes as interim CFO, effective Nov. 8. John Harvey, JetBlue's former executive VP-corporate services and CF
Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur International Airport is the first to be presented an Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Assured certificate following a successful audit of its airport passenger service quality management system, according to Airports Council International (ACI).
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions at all its operations, including airports, by 5% a year. Leading the port's effort, says Executive Director Anthony Shorris, will be making the newly acquired Stewart Airport the first carbon-neutral facility.
Mesa late last week filed a motion with a bankruptcy court that recently ordered the company to $80 million in damages to Hawaiian for a new trial based on what Mesa said was "important information" not available to the court. The court ruled that Mesa used information it was ordered to destroy after it wasn't selected to invest in Hawaiian to launch its inter-island carrier Go. Mesa gathered the information when it was considering investing in Hawaiian.
EADS on Thursday cut its operating profit forecast for the year by EUR400 million to breakeven, as the company's top executive called on European governments to provide relief to help offset the blow of a rapidly sinking U.S. dollar. The dollar's swoon limited EADS' revenue growth to just EUR300 million in the third quarter, compared with a year earlier, despite 10 more Airbus jet deliveries and stronger output at the company's defense units. Airbus jets are priced in U.S. dollars, but most of the company's costs are in euros.
US Airways says the tight slot market at London Heathrow is preventing it from launching flights to the airport, at least temporarily. The airline says it "intends to serve Heathrow someday but has no firm plans at this point." It has to "balance the demand for Heathrow with the cost of acquiring slots."
A U.S.-EU safety accord has hit roadblocks that will delay, or possibly halt, implementation. The pact is supposed to reduce overlap between FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency tasks. But labor issues are a sticking point, the latest being the Europeans saying mandatory drug and alcohol testing of repair station employees is a show stopper.
American and its pilots will this week begin their last negotiation sessions before a Thanksgiving recess, with talks moving away from the contentious pay debate to focus on work rules, such as scheduling and reserve policies. The airline and the Allied Pilots Association will meet Tuesday through Thursday, and APA is expected to respond to American's scheduling and reserve proposals. There will be no talks during the week of Thanksgiving, and no negotiation timetable for December has been set yet.
Named Alan Klapmeier, chairman and CEO of Cirrus Design Corp., 2008 GAMA chairman. Mark Van Tine, president and CEO of Jeppesen, was named GAMA vice chairman, and he will continue in his role on the international affairs committee in 2008.
Air Dominicana will launch operations in May 2008, general manager Ignacio Mora told The DAILY on the sidelines of the ALTA Airline Leaders Forum. The new airline, which counts the Dominican government and Spanish companies among its shareholders (Air Europa President Juan Jose Hidalgo is one), will have bases in Punta Cana and Santo Domingo. Mora listed New York, Miami, San Juan, Venezuela, Peru and Colombia as places the carrier intends to fly. Air Dominicana will fly Boeing 737s.
House Democrats think the Bush Administration isn't moving fast enough to clear people with names similar to those on the terrorist watch list. Officials tell the Homeland Security Committee there are 800,000 names on the list gathered by the FBI-run Terrorist Screening Center. But 43% of the time, names flagged at airport check-in counters turn out to be false alarms. More than 15,000 people have sought to have themselves removed from the list, less than half have succeeded. Freshman Rep.
ExpressJet plans to source aircraft it begins flying this month for Frontier from its charter network. The Houston-based carrier this year signed a short-term deal with Frontier to fly on routes slated for Lynx, whose FAA certification is taking longer than anticipated. ExpressJet could fly its 50-seat Embraer-145 jets in the Frontier network through January, but Frontier hopes to launch Lynx by yearend.
Jazz's push to grow its business outside North America is close to yielding results, as talks with several potential partners continue. The carrier previously said it was examining a list of eight to nine entities (DAILY, Aug. 13). Last week, CEO Joseph Randall told analysts that developing opportunities in other parts of the world was "an area of serious focus. We are making serious progress."
