Rolls-Royce will acquire the remaining 50% of shares in its UK-based joint venture with Goodrich, Aero Engine Controls (AEC). The JV was launched in January 2009 ( ATW Daily News, Jan. 8, 2009), combining the engine controls businesses of the two companies.
Australia’s Alligator Airways remains suspended and grounded by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) as it continues to investigate “a range” of safety issues.
The European Commission (EC) is recommending the adoption of ICAO’s so-called "balanced approach" to replace existing regulation on noise management at the region’s airports. At Thursday’s Council of EU Transport Ministers, the EC recommended that the ICAO standards and EU best practice in noise management become European law in order to even out disparities between states and ensure that certain processes are adhered to where measures are taken to mitigate air traffic noise.
Mediated talks between American Airlines (AA) and its pilots on a new labor pact, which took place June 4-7 under the supervision of a judge, are slated to continue the week of June 10 as the sides seek to avoid a bankruptcy-court imposed solution later this month.
The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has awarded aircraft type approval to Bombardier's Q400 turboprop to operate in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Flight operations at Manchester Airport (MAN) returned to normal Thursday following a disruption of fuel supply from the Essar refinery caused by “production problems” the day before.
The Indian minister of civil aviation and Air India (AI) management have announced a contingency plan to help the airline resume full operations after an ongoing pilot strike has crippled the airline.
Celebi Cargo GmbH has reached a full-handling agreement with LAN and TAM airlines, which are in the process of merging. The company began providing cargo handling services with TAM at the end of May and will start with LAN in July. OAG Cargo has launched Release 2.0 of its Cargo Flights software application. The upgrade offers new features including options to build a flight plan and save for future reference, store “favorite” routes and manage flight plans by adding flight segments, complete with special shipment notes.
A pitot tube warning and a medical emergency of a passenger delayed the June 5 inaugural flight of Scoot (TZ), Singapore Airlines’ new medium- to long-haul low-cost carrier, by more than an hour.
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Perseuss is a technology company that keeps a low profile, so low that the landing page of its website offers no clue as to its true purpose. The page educates the reader at some length about a cluster of galaxies in the constellation Perseus that has a red shift of 5,366 km/s. Even if you can make your way through all that, you still won’t know that Perseuss — the technology company, not the galaxy cluster — claims considerable success in reducing fraudulent airline ticket purchases.
Flybe (BE) and the UK’s air navigation services provider, National Air Traffic Services (NATS), have joined forces on a collaborative safety initiative known as FLOSS (Flybe Line Operational Safety Survey).
Piedmont Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Airways, has reached a tentative agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on a four-and-a-half year collective bargaining agreement. CWA represents the airline's more than 3,000 fleet and passenger service employees. The CWA will present the details of the tentative agreement to its members with an endorsement for ratification, which is expected to take place in July. Once ratified, the agreement will extend through January 2017.
Mediated talks between American Airlines (AA) and its flight attendants have broken off, and the union representing the cabin crew has reiterated its preference for a merger with US Airways (US).
Dana Air (9J) has confirmed that 146 passengers and seven crew members were killed when one of its Boeing MD-83s crashed into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, June 3.
The UAE's ENOC Aviation has won the best marketeer award across Africa and Middle East region for the fourth consecutive year at the Armbrust Aviation Awards held at the 'China International Aviation Fuel Conference & Exhibition' in Beijing.
Chromalloy’s turbine engine component repair station in the Netherlands has received approved organization exposition certification from the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau. The certification will allow the station to provide FAA-approved designated engineering representative repairs on All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines components. Sabena technics won an exclusive landing gear support contract from South African carrier Airlink, covering its fleet of eight BAe146-RJ85 aircraft.
The US, the European Union (EU) and Switzerland have agreed to mutually recognize each other’s air cargo security procedures and rules, a move aimed at streamlining duplicative screening practices and other time-consuming security protocols on transatlantic airfreight lanes.
A search team has recovered the flight data recorder (FDR) of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 that crashed on a demonstration flight in Indonesia May 9 killing all 45 people on board.
