Safety, Ops & Regulation

Turkish Technic was selected by Somon Air to provide GTCP131-9B type APU repair services. The contract covers one GTCP131-9B model APU repair and spare APU support. It also signed a base maintenance services agreement contract with Pegasus Airlines, for one Boeing 737-800 C check.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Linda Blachly
American Airlines (AA) and the Transport Workers Union (TWU) have reached a tentative agreement in principle for the dispatcher workgroup. Details about the tentative agreement will be shared with the TWU-represented dispatchers and operational coordinators in the coming days. “AA has been in negotiations with the TWU dispatch group since May 2006. Both parties worked collaboratively to reach a tentative agreement that addresses the interests of our TWU-represented dispatchers and the company,” AA said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia will increase its airspace capacity from Nov. 17 by implementing Reduced Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM), allowing for an additional six layers.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Linda Blachly
The Air Transport Assn. of America (ATA) filed suit Wednesday against the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) to halt a pending deal for $3.4 billion in loan guarantees for aircraft financing to Air India (AI), saying that it fails to meet statutory requirements, including consideration of the impact on the US airline industry and airline jobs.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Al Bateen Executive Airport, the Middle East's first dedicated business aviation airport operated by Abu Dhabi Airports Company, has opened a new crew lounge, which forms part of the DhabiJet FBO brand.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Business aircraft manufacturer Hawker Beechcraft (HBC) has opened an expanded office in Dubai.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Karen Walker
Passage of the FAA Reauthorization bill remains unlikely and another agency shutdown is not out of the question, the US Senate’s transportation committee chair warned Monday.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Linda Blachly
American Eagle Airlines (MQ) was fined $900,000 for lengthy tarmac delays, becoming the first carrier to be fined for a violation of the US Dept. of Transportation’s (DOT) rule, which took effect in April 2010, setting a 3-hr. limit for tarmac delays on domestic flights.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Geoffrey Thomas
Boeing has forecast the Middle East region will need 2,520 aircraft worth $450 billion by 2030, as the region’s carriers continue to surpass global air traffic and capacity growth rates.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Geoffrey Thomas
Airbus predicted that by 2030 carriers in the Middle East will require 1,921 new passenger and freighter aircraft—above 100 seats—worth $347.4 billion.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Michele McDonald
TravelClick acquires EZYield TRX Inc. sells ResX to nuTravel Three airlines sign up for Sabre merchandising solutions Revelex unveils new dynamic pack-aging engine Travelport introduces ‘Lowest Public Rate’ program In Focus: Room 77 becomes a booking site with ‘science and service’ World news briefing
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Michele McDonald
After 10 months of operating solely as a search engine and “room concierge,” Room 77 is getting into the business of taking hotel bookings. The company has been building a database that doesn’t just describe a hotel; it amasses data on every room in the property, so a user knows whether a room is near the elevator (and noisy) or whether the “ocean view” is really a view of a skyscraper hotel with a tiny sliver of sea off to the side.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Bahrain and Saudi Arabian-based Nexus flight operations services is to expand its operations into Africa.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Raytheon has finished the installation and testing of its AutoTrac III (AT3) air traffic management (ATM) system at Dubai World Central's Al Maktoum International Airport.
Maintenance & Training

Flight departments across the Middle East will now have access to a whole new range of audit and safety management services.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Sharjah-based Aerostar is expanding into new fields and used the Dubai Airshow to announce the launch of an engine leasing business and an aero academy.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Al Jaber (AJ) Aviation is to be the launch customer for Satcom1's Flight Billing solution for Inmarsat connectivity.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Britain's Gama Group is to expand its services into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

ExecuJet Middle East has won the Bombardier authorised service facility excellence award it was announced at the show. ExecuJet's Dubai facility won the international award.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Jet Aviation has bolstered its service offerings across the Middle East.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

ExecuJet Europe (stand: E370) and Shell Aviation are to open a new FBO in Frankfurt.
Airports & Networks

Honeywell has signed a maintenance cost agreement with flydubai worth more than $20 million over 10 years.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Goodrich Corporation has signed two significant support agreements with Emirates. The first is a general terms agreement (GTA), which provides the framework for all future MRO agreements between the two companies, while the second represents the first application of this GTA.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

ABS Jets executives are meeting with clients from the Gulf region at the show to discuss the services and facilities it can offer at its facilities in Prague and Bratislava.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Geoffrey Thomas
Qantas (QF) pilot Captain Richard de Crespigny, who nursed the airline’s crippled A380 back to Singapore last November ( ATW Daily News, Nov. 3, 2010), has broken ranks with his colleagues by calling for an end to "legacy practices" and declaring the airline's future lies in Asia, according to a report in The Australian.
Safety, Ops & Regulation