The SNPL—which represents about 70% of the French carrier’s pilots—agreed to increase productivity by 20% from 2011-14, as part of a comprehensive turnaround program to bring Air France-KLM back to profitability.
An unnoticed altitude on a controller’s screen and an unanticipated aerobatic maneuver by a training aircraft put an Air Canada Jazz Dash 8 and two-seat Zlin in dangerously close proximity as the Dash 8 departed Sault St. Marie Airport in Canada for Toronto in good weather on the afternoon of Sept. 3, 2014.
Denver International Airport executives are talking with Copa Airlines about starting a flight to Panama City, after United Airlines removed considerable capacity from the route, airport CEO Kim Day told Aviation Daily.
Pilots at Allegiant Air have asked the National Mediation Board to release it from labor negotiations with the airline, but a senior executive at the Las Vegas-based carrier said the request is too premature
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation is encouraged by CityJet’s decision to order Sukhoi Superjet 100s, as it shows that new entrants can “break into this conservative market,” according to Yoshihisa Kumagai, the airframer’s president for Europe.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight from Houston Hobby Airport (HOU) to Cancun, Mexico, on Oct. 15 inaugurated Southwest’s international concourse at HOU.
EVA Airways plans to order up to 24 Boeing 787-10s and two 777-300ERs in a move that is likely to extend the considerable expansion of the Taiwanese carrier’s fleet that is already underway.
There are three alternatives for the world’s third-largest civil aircraft manufacturer to survive: sell assets, shut down the C Series or accept government intervention.
House to vote on Ex-Im Bank at last. Army studies Russian UAV ops in Ukraine. NASA plans for a return to the Moon in the long run. And the State Department prepares to sell Black Hawks to Saudi Arabia.
From May 1 next year, Scoot will take over the route from Singapore to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, operating three weekly nonstop services with its Boeing 787-8s.
ATR has logged about 60 firm orders and 35 options so far this year and says it hopes to add another 10 to 20 sales before the end of the year, “but probably not a lot more,” de Castelbajac conceded.
The UAVs, the first of which was purchased two years ago, have now been used at the site of 16 crashes around the U.K., said Stuart Hawkins, a senior inspector of air accidents, to delegates at the AAIB’s centenary conference at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London Oct. 14.
TRJet’s German sister company, 328 Support Services, and Pratt & Whitney Canada signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 14 that covers upgraded PW306B engines to power the aircraft.
Airbnb Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Mildenhall gave few details, but said the program would launch soon, with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson kicking off the partnership on a flight to Hawaii.
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) has said Malaysia Airlines’ branch at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport failed to follow a 2008 internal mandate to record the nationality of passengers before a flight.
