Momentum appears to be building toward removing barriers to foreign airlines investing in Indian airlines, potentially opening up a new source of capital for the country's struggling air transport industry.
United Continental Holdings (UCH) has reached a tentative agreement with the Assn. of Flight Attendants (AFA) for “numerous improvements,” including increased wages and a signing bonus for United Airlines (UA) flight attendants.
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MacroSolve Inc., a Tulsa, Okla.-based company that describes itself as a “pioneer in delivering mobile apps, technologies and solutions to businesses and government,” sued 10 major travel companies for patent infringement. The company was awarded a patent in October 2010 that “addresses mobile information collection systems across all wireless networks, smartphones, tablets and rugged mobile devices, regardless of carrier and manufacturer.”
Lufthansa (LH) will operate a scheduled Boeing 747-400 flight between Frankfurt and Washington Dulles Thursday using a biofuel blend. The carrier noted it will be the first scheduled commercial biofuel flight on a transatlantic route. It said the flight is expected to emit 38 tons fewer carbon dioxide (CO2) than a similar flight fully utilizing traditional jet fuel.
Hungarian state-owned Malev Hungarian Airlines (MA) must pay back the equivalent of up to $350 million in illegal state aid between 2007 and 2010, the European Union's competition watchdog said Monday.
Join ATW and global airline leaders at the Eco-Aviation Conference & Awards Ceremony on June 20-21, 2012. This was the first and still is the only conference in North America devoted to addressing a broad cross section of topics arising from commercial aviation’s impact on the environment. This event focuses on the rising public concern over global warming and the impact that continued growth of commercial aviation will have on climate change in the future.
The EU has been further isolated from the world by last month’s ruling to include aviation in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) according to Airlines for America (A4A). “This further isolates the EU from the rest of the world and will keep in place a unilateral scheme that is counterproductive to concerted global action on aviation and climate change,” A4A said in an initial reaction.
The China Air Transport Assn. (CATA) is reworking its lawsuit strategy against the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) in the wake of the Dec. 21 Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruling. “We won’t change our clear-cut stance of opposing the EU ETS, although we have to adjust our lawsuit strategy owing to CJEU dismissal of the Airlines for America’s argument,” CATA deputy DG Chai Haibo said.
Lufthansa has announced that it will include the full cost of the EU ETS in its fuel surcharge from Jan. 1, while warning that European-based airlines are now at a disadvantage. The airline estimates that the ETS will cost €130 million ($167.3 million) in 2012, and while there will be no immediate increase; the next fuel surcharge review will take into account that additional cost.
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.
