Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has blocked an agreement between Aeroflot (SU) and Moscow Sheremetyevo airport (SVO) to release airport terminals D, E and F for the carrier, its sister companies and SkyTeam partners.
Romania’s Aerostar has started maintenance for the Airbus A320. The new contract, which is being carried out at Aerostar Bacau facility, is for an aircraft of Sky Wings Airlines of Greece. The work is being carried out in Aerostar’s new 5,000 sq. m. hangar, which opened in May, doubling the company’s commercial aircraft MRO capacity.
Pinnacle Airlines flight attendants have ratified the tentative agreement reached last month on concessions to emerge from Chapter 11 proceedings with a competitive cost structure.
Calif.-based Boeing employees have won a ruling entitling them to back pay and benefits, which an arbitrator said had been denied to employees at Edwards Air Force Base and Palmdale.
Russian airlines carried 57 million passengers during the first nine months of the year, up 15.2% over the year-ago period, Russian Federal Air Transport Agency/Rosaviatsia said in a statement.
IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said the European Union’s (EU) insistence on including aviation in its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), and the controversy that has erupted over its stance, is “poisoning the atmosphere that is needed to achieve a global approach” on managing aircraft carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at ICAO.
Horizon Air (QX) and its pilots, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), have reached a tentative agreement to extend their current contract for six years.
Air traffic controllers in Greece will strike Tuesday for three hours, bringing delays and flight cancellations, as part of a nationwide anti-austerity strike in Greece.
Iberia Maintenance has signed a five-year contract with GMF AeroAsia to exclusively service and maintain components for Garuda Indonesia’s new fleet of Bombardier CRJ1000 regional jets.
Flydubai has acquired a $117.5 million loan guarantee from the Export-Import Bank supporting exports of Boeing 737-800s. Lufthansa (LH) will begin testing hourly schedule intervals from Frankfurt to Hamburg, Berlin Tegel and Munich in the upcoming winter schedule. LH wants to deliver a more sustainable, easy-to-remember schedule for business travelers.
Delta Air Lines (DL) said it canceled flights due to Hurricane Sandy, which hit the US northeast early this week, will negatively impact their October revenues by $45 million and decrease October profit by $20 million.
September brought a continued slowing of commercial aviation’s rate of traffic growth, with regions increasingly showing variations in their fortunes, according to IATA.
US Dept. of Transportation (DOT) inspector general Calvin Scovel has issued a harshly critical report on the organization managing Washington National (DCA) and Dulles (IAD) airports, citing “weaknesses … related to contracting, financial disclosure, travel, ethics and transparency.”
Boeing and the State Corp. Russian Technologies (Rostech), a majority shareholder in the joint stock company VSMPO-AVISMA Corp., are working on an agreement to expand collaboration in titanium procurement and technology development, Boeing said in a statement.
European Union (EU) transport ministers have agreed a general approach on proposed changes to the 1993 slot allocation rules that could make it legal for airlines to buy and sell slots.
International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) has reached an agreement with Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Spirit Airlines for the lease of five Airbus A320neo aircraft.
Evergreen Apple Nigeria (EAN) Ltd - which opened the first fully fledged FBO and MRO for business jets in Nigeria in July 2011 - announced today at NBAA an innovative partnershipto work closely with Banyan Air Service, Florida's leading and award winning FBO operator.
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IATA’s “New Distribution Capability,” formally adopted at its World Passenger Symposium in Abu Dhabi, calls for the creation of a Dynamic Airline Shopping engine API based on IATA XML messages. The NDC envisions a model in which airlines create their own product offers within their own systems, and those offers are “provided directly by and owned by the airline.” IATA said the model will enable more agile pricing and more personalized offerings.
Lufthansa Technik signed a 10-year Total Component Support (TCS) contract with Ethiopian Airlines, covering its 10 Boeing 787s. Lufthansa Technik already provides component support for Ethiopian’s Bombardier Q400 and Boeing MD-11 aircraft. Sepang Aircraft Engineering has signed a contract with Airbus for its Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) solution. SAE performs all base maintenance activities for Air Asia’s fleet.
[UPDATED] News from Travel Technology Update: IATA’s “New Distribution Capability,” formally adopted at its World Passenger Symposium in Abu Dhabi, calls for the creation of a Dynamic Airline Shopping engine API based on IATA XML messages.
Airbus has released the latest installment of its vision for sustainable aviation in 2050, addressing how aircraft could be operated more efficiently on the ground and in the air. Airbus research suggests that flights in Europe and the US could on average be around 13 minutes shorter, and flights in other parts of the world could also be shorter if the ATM system and technology onboard aircraft were optimized.
Boeing, American Airlines (AA) and the FAA have partnered to in a program that uses a 737-800 known as ecoDemonstrator to highlight testing of environmentally progressive technologies.
