Turkish Technic received an extended and expanded Boeing 737NG wheel and tire services contract with Pegasus Airlines, through 2017. The deal covers aircraft with carbon brakes, in addition to those with steel brakes.
US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported that US airlines employed 389,444 workers in October, up 3% from October 2010. BTS said this is the 11 th consecutive increase in full-time equivalent employee levels for the scheduled passenger carriers from the same month of the previous year.
US Airways and American Airlines have confirmed to ATW they have added a $3 surcharge each way ($6 for a roundtrip) onto tickets purchased in the US for flights to and from Europe, in the wake of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which took effect Jan. 1 ( ATW Daily News, Jan. 5).
Airbus engineers carrying out repairs on the Qantas (QF) A380 that suffered an uncontained engine explosion in late 2010 after take-off from Singapore have found a small number of 3 mm.-long cracks in the aircraft’s wing rib feet.
Iberia (IB) canceled several long- and medium-haul flights for Monday and Wednesday, and warned there will be delays as its pilots go ahead with a series of one-day strikes.
The European Commission (EC) will not modify its regulation that includes aviation in its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and “looks forward to constructive discussions with our US partners on the need to take bold action to curb growing aviation carbon pollution,” Isaac Valero-Ladron, spokesman for Climate Action commissioner Connie Hedegaard told ATW.
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IATA said the world's airlines performed "quite well" in the 2011 third quarter, with a sample of 61 carriers reporting a combined $5 billion net profit for the three-month period.
Trouble continued to mount for India's Kingfisher Airlines (IT) as both its largest creditor and the country's top aviation official publicly criticized the carrier.
The European Commission is standing firm despite China’s latest reactions to the inclusion of aviation in the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) as of Jan. 1, and said that airlines must comply with EU law.
In a significant ramp up in the rhetoric over Europe’s controversial Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) for aviation, the China Air Transport Assn. (CATA) said it will not pay ETS fees.
CAE has received regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Authority Czech Republic for its Boeing 737-800 full-flight simulator (FFS). The FFS is now qualified to JAA/EASA Level D JAR-STD 1A standards, the industry’s highest benchmark, and is ready for pilot training.
NAV Canada, the air traffic services provider, said an arbitration decision has awarded about 400 of its engineering, computer service, science and purchasing employees with a 2.75% annual wage increase beginning with a retroactive raise dated to May 1, 2011. The arbitration ruling brings to a conclusion NAV Canada's labor negotiations with the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) union representing the 400 workers.
Qantas (QF) has confirmed to ATW that about 150 of its 2,000 pilots have taken unpaid leave after it reduced services to cut losses on unprofitable international operations.
Lufthansa (LH) will hire 200 flight attendants as temporary workers and has told passengers to brace for higher ticket prices as it searches for ways to cut costs and stem the effects of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which took effect Jan. 1.
Dreieich-based Hahn Air (HR) has launched a new online booking portal, giving travel agents access to bookings on more than 250 HR partner airlines, access to all published fares, and the ability to book flights on more airlines. The system is powered by 2e Systems’ eeBook, party of its eeSkySuite of products. "Travel agents wanted a dynamic tool to book flights normally not available in their in-house solution for sale," HR VP- head of global account management Andreas Ochse said.
Unions representing employees at United Airlines (UA) and Continental Airlines (CO), subsidiaries of the merged United Continental Holdings, will move ahead this month with efforts aimed at creating single labor representative groups for mechanics and passenger service and reservation employees of the combined airlines.
Last year there were 507 aviation fatalities as a result of 28 fatal accidents, the Aviation Safety Network (ASN) said in a report released Dec. 27. According to ASN, 2011 was the second safest year by number of fatalities and the third safest year by number of accidents. Also, last year was the longest period without a fatal airliner accident in modern aviation history—81 days and counting as of Jan. 2. The number of fatalities for 2011 is lower than the 10-year average of 764 fatalities, ASN said.
More than 2,100 ExpressJet and Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) flight attendants have voted to join the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. The election was prompted by the merger of the two airlines after Utah-based SkyWest Inc. last year acquired Houston-based ExpressJet and announced it would merge with SkyWest's Atlanta-based subsidiary ASA ( ATW Daily News, Oct. 17).
Nok Mini Saab 340. Courtesy, SAL Saab Aircraft Leasing (SAL) has completed the sale of an undisclosed number of aircraft from its European portfolio to four companies and agreed a lease with a fifth company.
The Independent Pilots Assn. (IPA), representing about 2,700 United Parcel Service (UPS) pilots, petitioned a US federal court in Washington Thursday, challenging cargo carriers' exemption from new pilot flight time, duty and rest regulations finalized by FAA Wednesday.
