The FAA is proposing a $395,850 civil penalty against US Airways (US), of Tempe, Ariz., for allegedly violating US Dept. of Transportation hazardous materials regulations.
Interjet, the launch airline of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 in Latin America, said it will continue with plans to incorporate the aircraft into its fleet, with first deliveries to begin by the end of the year.
FAA is reconsidering its exemption for cargo carriers from its pilot flight time, duty and rest regulations, conceding that it made “errors” in developing its justification for the exemption.
Russian Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia announced it will spend RUB219.4 million ($7.2 million) to subsidize five carriers that service Kaliningrad (KGD)–Moscow and KGD–St. Petersburg routes.
Leaders of the 12,000 ALPA-represented pilots at United Continental Holdings (UCH) have called for a strike vote after failing to reach a contract agreement through two years of post-merger negotiations.
Russia and Kazakhstan will amend their bilateral agreement, Deputy Minister of Transport of Russia Valery Okulov said at the Wings of Russia award ceremony.
Indonesia's State-Owned Enterprises Ministry has replaced Merpati Nusantara Airlines (MZ) president director Jhony Sardjono Tjitrokusumo, citing his inability to improve the company’s performance, according to the Jakarta Post newspaper.
Simulation and training specialist CAE has acquired Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) in a C$314 million ($309 million) deal that will add seven training centers and 40 full-flight simulators (FFS) to CAE’s worldwide base of facilities.
Chinese carriers earned a collective profit of CNY1.84 billion ($290.5 million) in April, down 46%, from a net income of CNY3.4 billion in the year-ago month.
[UPDATED] An Indonesian search team has found the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the Russian Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 that crashed last week killing all 45 people on board.
Airbus parent EADS reported first-quarter net income of €133 million ($170.4 million), turned around from a €12 million net loss in the 2011 March quarter, on a 16% rise in revenue to €11.4 billion.
News from Travel Technology Update: The economic environment has not been kind to Europe over the last couple of years, and in 2011 Lufthansa Systems took steps to realign the company not only for significant cost reductions but for an equal amount of revenue growth as well.
Chinese carriers are refusing to join European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) despite EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard’s warning Tuesday of their violation of new reporting rules.
AAR announced it has received US FAA Supplemental Type Certificate approval for one oxygen system retrofit on a Boeing 747-400 cargo aircraft. Saab has signed an extended contract with Airbus to continue producing ailerons for the Airbus A320 series. The contract is valued at SEK701 million ($100 million).
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has launched an aircraft finance lease company with Pudong Development Bank and Shanghai International Group.
While most of American Airlines’ (AA) workers are pledged to supporting a merger with US Airways, a number of the company’s smaller workgroups have ratified new collective bargaining agreements.
The 115 European network, regional and leisure airlines—represented by the Assn. of European Airlines (AEA), the European Regions Airline Assn. (ERA), and the International Air Carrier Assn. (IACA)—have joined forces to insist that European flight time regulations are safe.
The European Union said Tuesday that there has been “systematic non-reporting” of emissions data by Chinese and Indian airlines, a violation of the carriers’ legal responsibilities under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
AFI KLM E&M has won multiple engineering projects from ILFC. Modification projects include work for Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft such as cabin, avionics and material management. PPG Aerospace said nine of its coating systems have passed PPG Industries' specification testing, meeting the requirements of SAE International's Aerospace Material Specification 3095A for airline exterior paint.
Tunisair (TU) workers, represented by Tunisian General Labor Confederation (GCTT), have announced they will strike May 22 and 23 after they were excluded from all meetings between union representatives and the TU administration, several local media outlets reported.
