Cooperation and understanding of the importance of the aviation industry from governments are key for the industry going forward, FedEx Express president and CEO Dave Bronczek said Thursday at the FAA Aviation Forecast Conference in Washington.
China is blocking airlines from placing Airbus aircraft orders in retaliation against the new European aviation carbon tax, the head of Airbus parent EADS said Thursday.
Airbus parent company EADS reported better than expected fiscal 2011 full-year results and record airliner deliveries, posting net income up 76% to €1.1 billion ($1.4 billion). EADS’ revenues increased 7% to €49.1 billion.
Acting FAA administrator Michael Huerta said the agency is optimistic about strong, long-term US air passenger traffic growth despite a near-term stagnation in capacity expansion.
Increasing US regulatory interference in the business of airlines is a retreat from the free market principles that are the basis of deregulation and could have unintended negative consequences, IATA DG Tony Tyler told a Washington audience Thursday.
The European Union’s approach in passing its Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) tax “was totally wrong,” US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in his opening remarks at the 37th annual FAA Aviation Forecast Conference in Washington Thursday.
FAA forecasted that US airlines' collective traffic will grow at an average annual rate of 3.2% over the next 20 years to reach 1.57 trillion RPMs by 2032, down 15.8% from the 3.8% average annual passenger traffic growth rate predicted by the agency last year.
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft will place extra consignment stock of aircraft spares for the Avro RJ close to London City Airport for the duration of the Olympic Games, it said. Relativity Capital has relaunched and renamed its 460-acre commercial aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Marana, Arizona March 6. The facility was formerly Evergreen Maintenance Center, and was acquired by Relativity in May 2011.
The Chinese government has raised domestic jet fuel prices to CNY7,725 ($1,222) per ton, up 3.48% from CNY7,465 per ton as the cost of international oil continues to climb.
The FAA is seeking a civil penalty of $153,000 alleging that Colgan Air (9L) operated 17 flights without giving pilots or flight attendants the required minimum amount of rest.
Air Canada's (AC) labor troubles took another negative turn late Tuesday when the International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), representing the airline's 8,600 mechanics, baggage handlers and cargo agents, served notice of a strike to start March 12.
SuperJet International’s (SJI) training center in Venice has received Italian Civil Aviation Authority certification to provide Airbus A320 family aircraft training on a full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was transferred in November from the Alitalia training center in Rome to the SJI training center. SJI is a joint venture between Finmeccanica company Alenia Aermacchi and Sukhoi Holding. The A320 FFS allows SJI to extend services beyond Sukhoi Superjet 100 training provided on an SSJ100 FFS at the SJI training center in Zhukovsky, Moscow.
Chilean airlines saw a 16% increase in international passenger traffic and a 15.8% growth in domestic traffic in January, logging a record figure of 1.4 million boarding passengers, its all-time best single month on record.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is transitioning to a risk-based, intelligence-driven screening system that moves away from the one-size-fits-all approach the agency adopted when it was first created, the TSA chief said Monday.
Last year was the safest in history to fly commercially, IATA reported, though some developing regions lag the low accident rates achieved in North America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) will lead to a distortion of competition, higher ticket prices for Dutch consumers and be financially damaging to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) and KLM, a senior politician has warned.
United Airlines’ weekend migration to the Hewlett Packard SHARES system used by Continental, its merger partner, got mixed reviews: As Henry Harteveldt, an analyst at Atmosphere Research Group, said, it was “a success on the technology level but less of a success on the customer-experience front.” In the final major step in the integration of the two carriers, United successfully moved its reservations, inventory control and departure control systems off the Apollo platform, where they had resided for more than 40 years, and onto SHARES.
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News from Travel Technology Update: United Airlines’ weekend migration to the Hewlett Packard SHARES system used by Continental, its merger partner, got mixed reviews: As Henry Harteveldt, an analyst at Atmosphere Research Group, said, it was “a success on the technology level but less of a success on the customer-experience front.”
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft is now offering wheels and brakes maintenance support for new operators of the BAe146/Avro RJ in cooperation with Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems. StandardAero signed a service agreement with Air New Zealand for turboprop engine maintenance repair and overhaul work covering three of their regional airlines, Eagle Airways, Air Nelson and Mount Cook. The contract expands a prior agreement to include Air Nelson and Mount Cook Airlines.
