Russia is taking lessons from NASA's aeronautics and Europe's Clean Sky programs in structuring its new civil aviation research effort, to begin in 2016.
The US Dept. of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that 743.1 million passengers were transported by US airlines in 2013, the highest annual total since 2008’s 743.3 million passengers.
Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai will launch Dubai-Moscow service in September. It will become ninth airline`s destination in Russia. The airport in Moscow has not been specified yet, but the carrier will do that soon because ticket sales start in April.
Russia’s and Tunisia’s aviation authorities have agreed to sign a new air service agreement, but it will not change the current situation regarding flights from Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
The huge fleets of airliners on order by the Arabian Gulf’s “Big Three” carriers risk spending more time on the ground than in the air if the growing problem of the region’s restricted airspace is not resolved, according to the head of the UK’s air traffic management provider.
Garuda Indonesia will switch its existing Jakarta – Abu Dhabi – Amsterdam route to a non-stop operation from May 30, 2014, flying on a five times weekly basis
Lufthansa will streamline operations by simplifying its hub structure in Munich from eight to six banks per day, according to outgoing Lufthansa chairman and CEO Christoph Franz.
The thick haze from uncontrolled forest fires, which disrupted flights last week at airports on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, resurfaced Friday resulting in more airport closures.
China Eastern Airlines plans to accelerate its expansion pace by taking advantage of Beijing’s new Shanghai free trade zone and the opening of Shanghai Disney in 2015, according to the carrier’s president Ma Xulun. “On the international front, our focus will be North American market, which has strong business travel demands,” Ma said.
The European branch of the Airports Council International (ACI Europe) has called for an end to the bickering between airports and airlines about airport charges, and proposed a more innovative approach to airport regulation.
Australia’s air navigation services provider, Airservices, has renewed long-term partnerships with the Republic of Nauru and the Solomon Islands to provide air traffic management in the Pacific.
France’s Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) and German air navigation services provider DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung have jointly developed the safety net system—Cooperative Safety Nets (CoSNET)—to enhance the safety of operations in their area control centers and major approach control units.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted to support, strengthen and push forward the European Commission’s Single European Sky 2+ (SES2+) initiative aimed at accelerating implementation of the Single European Sky.
