Sabre Travel Network plans to open an online store where travel management companies can shop for apps, in much the same way that consumers shop for apps at Apple’s App Store. Called the Sabre Red App Centre, the store will sell applications developed both by Sabre and by its authorized third-party developers. It will be accessible through a tab on the Sabre Red Workspace, the desktop introduced last year.
Monarch Aircraft Engineering signed a line maintenance technical handling agreement with Alitalia covering its Airbus A330 operations at Male airport in the Maldives. Airstream Aviation signed a five-year deal with CommSoft to use its OASES maintenance management software, for the development of its continuing airworthiness management organization and inventory services.
The US FAA is proposing a civil penalty of $1,892,000 against Pinnacle Airlines subsidiary Colgan Air, for allegedly allowing 84 newly hired flight attendants to work on 172 flights aboard a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400, between Nov. 3-9, 2009, when they were not properly trained to use the aircraft’s cabin fire extinguisher system.
News from Travel Technology Update: Sabre Travel Network plans to open an online store where travel management companies can shop for apps, in much the same way that consumers shop for apps at Apple’s App Store.
IATA has warned that the economic outlook for the airline industry has deteriorated since its June update despite the stronger-than-expected surge in the first half.
Lufthansa Technik Sofia, a joint venture between Germany's Lufthansa Technik and Bulgarian Aviation Group, is expanding its narrowbody hangar at Sofia Airport into a new two-bay hangar for heavy checks.
US FAA is proposing a $1.1 million civil penalty against Aviation Technical Services (ATS), of Everett, Washington state, for allegedly making improper repairs to 44 Southwest Airlines (SWA) Boeing 737-300s.
Qantas (QF) has been forced to cancel 28 flights and delay a further 27 up to 30 minutes, because of a 4-hr. baggage handlers strike scheduled for Tuesday that will affect more than 7,000 passengers.
The Asia/Pacific region will require hundreds of thousands of new commercial airline pilots and technicians over the next 20 years to support airline fleet modernization and the rapid growth of air travel, according to Boeing’s 2011 Pilot & Technician Outlook released Monday.
Airbus has forecast demand for 27,800 new commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, including 26,900 passenger aircraft (with more than 100 seats) and 900 freighters, valued at $3.5 trillion.
Qantas (QF) has been forced to cancel 28 flights and delay a further 27 up to 30 minutes, because of a 4-hr. baggage handlers strike scheduled for Tuesday that will affect more than 7,000 passengers.
The ASA Group which offers luxury lifestyle services from its offices in Dubai and Asia has agreed a new partnership with Avolus which provides similar services across Europe and Russia.
US Airways remains committed to being a leader in NextGen, the US effort to establish a new-technology air traffic management system. US Airways flight technical operations captain Brian Townsend told attendees at the Avionics for NextGen Conference Sept. 13 that the carrier "remains focused as a NextGen leader.”
US Dept. of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics said the nation’s largest carriers reported only one tarmac delay of more than 3 hr. in July, compared to three in the year-ago month and 14 in June.
The US Air Transport Assn. (ATA) said an analysis by consultancy Oliver Wyman demonstrates that the pilot fatigue and duty time rules FAA is proposing to implement would "have severe negative effects on US airline employment … while reducing service, especially to small communities."
Chinese carriers earned an aggregate profit of CNY6.59 billion ($1.03 billion) in August, up 27.4% over a net income of CNY5.17 billion in the year-ago month, crediting domestic market growth.
The Transport workers Union (TWU), which represents 3,800 Qantas’ (QF) baggage handlers and ground staff, has instructed its members to walk off the job Tuesday.
International trade statistics through the first half of 2011 reveal that "the overall picture for global freight is one of growth slowing down," the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) International Transport Forum (ITF) said in a new global trade and transport "statistics brief" released this week.
Emirates’ has beaten IATA’s fuel efficiency average by 25% with consumption of 4.12 liters per 100 passenger-kilometers. The IATA average is 5.4 liters for 100 pax-kms. The airline also beat out fuel efficiency champions Lufthansa at 4.2 liters per 100PK and Cathay Pacific at 4.84 liters per 100PK.
Embraer and GE Aviation have concluded a series of biofuel test flights in Brazil aboard a CF34-8E-powered E-170. One of the aircraft's two engines was powered by a 50/50 blend of camelina-derived hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) and Jet-A. “This series of tests, and their very positive results, gives us a lot of new information to continue our sustainability program as it relates to future products,” Embraer EVP-engineering and technology Mauro Kern said.
