UK-based flight training provider CTC Aviation Group has signed a cooperation agreement with Phoenix, Ariz.-based Airline Training Center Arizona (ATCA) to use its facilities for pilot training.
Commercialization remains the biggest challenge to achieving the FAA's target of 1 billion gallons of renewable aviation fuel use by 2018, says administrator Michael Huerta.
The Indian government said Monday it was lifting restrictions on Airbus A380 flights into the country. The decision will allow airlines like Singapore Airlines, Emirates and Lufthansa to start using the aircraft on their India routes.
Technology has played a major role in enhancing safety over the last 50 years in the air transportation system. A look at the more recent developments proves that the evolution of safety related technology, procedures and training continue.
IATA has reached an agreement with Open Allies for Airfare Transparency—a coalition of more than 400 independent distributors and sellers of air travel, corporate travel departments, travel trade associations and consumer organizations—under which Open Allies will withdraw its opposition to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) approving IATA’s Resolution 787.
Premium air travel markets continued to improve in November, with overall international premium traffic increasing 5.4% year-over-year, “in line with the October result [5.6%] but … above growth year-to-date, which indicates that premium travel demand has accelerated over recent months,” according to IATA’s November Premium Traffic Monitor.
Bombardier Aerospace will lay off 1,700 employees in a bid to contain costs after stretching out CSeries development by at least 12 months and seeing business and commercial aircraft orders decline in 2013.
The Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination (ATCEUC)—which originally planned an Action Day Oct. 10, 2013, and then called it off—has rekindled plans to strike Jan. 29 to protest the European Commission’s (EC) SES2+ package aimed at speeding implementation of the Single European Sky (SES).
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has conducted a biofuel demonstration flight as a step toward the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The two pilots of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 that landed at the wrong airport Jan. 12 in Missouri told National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators they flew a “visual approach into what they believed to be Branson Airport” and that they “did not realize they were at the wrong airport until they had landed.”
Airbus COO-customers John Leahy is optimistic that China will soon agree to take 27 Airbus A330s, which have been stalled by a dispute over the European Union emissions trading scheme (ETS).
London mayor Boris Johnson’s office has described the decision-making of the Airports Commission in its Interim Report as having “a touch of the Simon Cowell about it,” making reference to the TV talent show personality.
United Continental will furlough 688 flight attendants, as part of a cost-cutting strategy outlined in November to cut $2 billion in annual costs and increase yearly ancillary revenue by $700 million by 2017.
Airports Commission chairman Howard Davies has strongly urged the UK government to act quickly to establish an independent noise authority to help re-establish trust and improve the quality of the airport capacity debate.
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is sending an investigator to Japan to assist with the probe into the Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 787-8 battery incident that occurred Jan. 14 at Tokyo Narita Airport.
India may soon scrap an archaic rule that requires domestic airlines to be operating for at least five years and have a fleet of 20 aircraft to be able to fly on international routes.
