Lufthansa Systems was selected by Air Namibia to supply myIDTravel, the integrated ID travel management solution for staff travel. NavAer o signed a contract with Italy-based Neos for the deployment of the tBagC22 Electronic Flight Bag system on the airline's fleet of Boeing 737-800 and 767-300ER aircraft.
Air Canada and the Canadian Auto Workers said the airline's approximately 3,800 call center and airport customer service agents in Canada have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement ( ATW Daily News, June 16). The four-year accord, which has been approved by AC's board of directors, will remain in effect until Feb. 28, 2015.
Former UPS Airlines President Robert Lekites was named Airbus Americas' executive VP-customers, effective Aug.1, giving him responsibility for North American sales. In the newly-created position, he will report directly to Airbus Americas President and CEO Barry Eccleston.
US FAA proposed a $1.05 million civil penalty against Boeing "for allegedly failing to correct a known problem in production and installation of the central passenger oxygen system in" 777s.
In what can be fairly described as an extreme pro-consumer opinion that will likely increase airlines' costs associated with the EU 261/2004 passenger compensation regulation, the European Court of Justice's advocate general argued Tuesday that passengers may claim reimbursement for "reasonable" expenditures incurred when an airline fails to provide care and assistance in the event of a canceled flight.
Canadian Commissioner of Competition Melanie Airken filed an application Monday with the country's Competition Tribunal, an independent law enforcement agency, seeking to "prohibit" Air Canada and United Continental Holdings from launching a planned revenue-sharing joint venture on US/Canada transborder services.
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After years of talking about the mobile channel, the airline industry is finally embracing it. A third of airlines that responded to SITA’s Airline IT Trends Survey 2011 are already selling through the mobile channel, and another 52% plan to sell tickets via mobile phones by the end of 2014. But the aviation industry is “very inconsistent” in the ways it has deployed mobile applications, according to Jack Loop, formerly of Mobiata and now a specialist consultant to SITA on mobile technologies.
Canadian Commissioner of Competition Melanie Airken filed an application Monday with the country's Competition Tribunal, an independent law enforcement agency, seeking to "prohibit" Air Canada and United Continental Holdings from launching a planned revenue-sharing joint venture on US/Canada transborder services.
Aero Pneudraulics, an aircraft repair and overhaul services provider, announced it has changed its name to AeroWorx. The company recently expanded into a new 40,000 sq. ft. facility in Torrance, Calif. TAECO opened its sixth maintenance hangar at Xiamen Gaoqi International. The $73.5 million, 45,790 sq.-m. hangar is fully equipped to accommodate two widebody aircraft, enabling capacity expansion by 20%.
Flights to/from and within Greece are expected to be heavily disrupted Tuesday owing to work actions by the country's ATC personnel between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m. and between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. local time. The planned walk-off is part of a wider general strike called by the main Greek unions for June 28-29 in protest of a vote in parliament on further austerity measures.
Virgin Atlantic Airways founder and Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson warned that a pilots' strike would leave "an indelible scar" on the airline, "impact customers' trust" and "damage the unique and friendly culture at Virgin Atlantic."
Detroit Metro operator Wayne County Airport Authority said it has agreed to partner with Michigan State University Extension to grow, harvest and process bioenergy crops on the property of DTW and another of the authority's airports, Willow Run.
Detroit Metro operator Wayne County Airport Authority said it has agreed to partner with Michigan State University Extension to grow, harvest and process bioenergy crops on the property of DTW and another of the authority's airports, Willow Run.
Cathay Pacific Airways and its subsidiary Dragonair have recorded a 5.1% improvement in CO 2 efficiency in relation to traffic volume carried (revenue tone-kilometer) for 2010 bringing the overall improvement to 23.4% since 1998. One of the big contributors has been the 777-300ER, which is 26% more efficient than the 747-400 it has been replacing. The figures are contained in the airline’s Sustainable Development Report 2010 released this month.
UK-based GKN Aerospace has signed an agreement this week with Recycled Carbon Fibre Ltd. in Birmingham, UK, to recycle the uncured carbon waste from its aero structure manufacturing operation in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK. Recycling will take place at RCF’s innovative carbon recycling facility in the West Midlands. GKN Aerospace estimates that approaching 100 tonnes of carbon waste from the Cowes site will be recycled in the next 12 months as part of this cost neutral agreement.
Australian and New Zealand could be self sufficient in biomass for the aviation industry by 2050, according to a new study released last month. The wide ranging study was conducted by the Australian CSIRO, that country’s peak scientific organization, on behalf of the Australasian grouping of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group, including Air New Zealand, Boeing, Qantas and Virgin Australia, together with the Defence Science and Technology Organization. The study found that 50% of the region’s biomass requirements could be met by 2020.
The European Commission, Airbus, leading European airlines and European biofuel producers have launched a new industry-wide initiative to try and speed up the commercialization of aviation biofuels in Europe.
A group of 10 airlines—eight based in the US, plus Air Canada and Lufthansa—have signed letters of intent with Washington-based Solena Fuels to acquire a future supply of jet fuel derived exclusively from waste biomass. Under the plan, the fuel—made from post-recycled urban and agricultural waste—will be produced at a plant to be built by Solena in Santa Clara County, Calif., in 2013, and trucked to airports in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.
Boeing and American Airlines have announced a partnership to bring an "evolutionary ecoDemonstrator Program" to reality next year. An American 737-800 will be used to flight test and accelerate the market readiness of emerging technologies, the companies said. The 737-800, and a twin-aisle aircraft to be identified later this year, will serve as the flight test component for the FAA Continuous Lower Energy Emissions Noise (CLEEN) program – along with other technologies developed by Boeing and other industry partners.
US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack encouraged development and production of biofuels to power commercial aircraft, telling a Paris Air Show audience there has been "extraordinary progress in the last 12 months" in understanding how biofuel blends can power flights. "I think we're nearing a tipping point" in terms of building momentum toward use of biofuel on commercial flights, he said. "I think [biofuel powering airline flights is] not long-term. In the short term you'll see the benefits."
The Arab Air Carriers Organization said that international passenger numbers to, from and within the Middle East and North Africa region increased by 6.1% in April compared to April 2010. Arab airlines increased the number of their offered seats to, from and within MENA by 9%, while other airlines slightly decreased the number of seats offered by 0.1%, leading to a 6.2% year-on-year increase in the total number of seats offered.
