The Croatian government is moving ahead with a new drive to find a strategic partner for its national carrier, Croatia Airlines, targeting the first half of 2015 as the timetable for discussions with potential suitors.
Worldwide air passenger traffic increased 4.7% in June, down 1.5 point from May’s 6.2% growth, according to IATA’s June Air Passenger Market Analysis report.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has awarded Netherlands-based Fugro a further contract to assist in the ongoing search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370).
Boeing and South African Airways are joining forces with Netherlands-based SkyNRG to make sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of energy-rich tobacco plant.
UK leisure carrier Monarch Airlines has completed all requirements for a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) air operator’s certificate (AOC), one of the first UK airlines to do so.
At the 2014 half-year mark, global air freight markets registered a combined 4.1% increase in volume compared with the same period in 2013, according to IATA’s June air freight market analysis.
The Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) of Malaysia has approved a Baltic Aviation Academy training center to provide Boeing 737-600/900 type rating training and base training.
Aviation and aviation-related activities will derive nearly one-third of Dubai’s entire gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020, according to the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA).
Premium passenger traffic worldwide grew 6.5% year-over-year in May, exceeding April’s 3.8% growth performance and besting May 2013’s premium travel growth rate by 4.5 points, according to IATA’s May Premium Traffic Monitor.
In February the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) produced a study titled “Current and Future Availability of Airline Pilots.” In the study’s summary of findings, it reported, “As airlines have recently started hiring, nearly all of the regional airlines that GAO interviewed reported difficulties finding sufficient numbers of qualified entry-level first officers.”
Virgin Atlantic revealed plans in June for a wider roll-out of Google Glass following its London Heathrow trial, but its partner SITA remains unconvinced after a further road test with Copenhagen Airport.
Boeing has projected a global demand for 1.1 million new airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years, according to its 2014 Pilot and Technician Outlook.
ICAO, IATA and other major global aviation organizations are forming a high-level international task force of state and industry experts to look at airspace security issues raised by the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 earlier this month.
French air accident investigators have read the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Boeing MD-83 that crashed in Mali while operating for Air Algerie, but work is continuing on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), which was damaged on impact.
FAA announced in a press release it is proposing a $12 million civil penalty against Southwest Airlines for failing to comply with federal aviation regulations in three separate enforcement cases related to repairs on its Boeing 737s.
The Malaysia Airlines (MH17) Boeing 777-200ER that crashed over Ukraine July 17, killing all 298 on board, was destroyed because of “massive explosive decompression” due to “multiple fragmentation damage caused by a missile explosion,” according to the Ukrainian Security and Defense Council.
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would reverse a Department of Transportation (DOT) rule requiring airlines to include taxes in displayed airfares.
IATA has sent its fourth letter to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to allow airlines to repatriate funds, now estimated to be $4.1 billion, at the original exchange rate.
The terrible irony of the shooting down of flight MH17, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 with 298 people on board, is that in this, the 100th anniversary year of commercial air transportation, modern airliners and engines have never been safer or more reliable than they are today. And yet, within the space of six months, two Boeing 777s have been lost along with the lives of almost 530 passengers and crew.
The wreckage of Air Algerie Flight 5017 (AH5017) has been found in a “disintegrated state” in the Gossi region of northeastern Mali, near the border of Burkina Faso, according to French President Francois Hollande.
US scheduled passenger airlines have reported six consecutive months of year-over-year employment growth, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
A Boeing MD-83, chartered by Air Algerie from Spanish company Swiftair, appears to have crashed in Mali with 110 passengers and six crew members on board.
