Cathay Pacific has increased its shareholding in Air China from 18.43% to 18.77% after acquiring 5.48 million shares for HK$40 million ($5.17 million). SAS Scandinavian Airlines, along with Star Alliance partners Lufthansa, Swiss and Austrian Airlines, said it has again won the Swedish government's procurement of air travel, in a contract carried out by Swedish Armed Forces Logistics FMLOG. The agreement is worth a total of SEK700 million ($111.6 million).
Approximately 1,300 kg. (2,866 lbs.) of fuel leaked from the left RB211 engine of a Thomas Cook Boeing 757 during a June 10, 2010 flight from Milas-Bodrum Airport in Turkey to London Gatwick, according to a UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch report released Thursday.
US FAA Air Traffic Organization COO Hank Krakowski resigned Thursday as the agency conducts a "top to bottom review" of the way it operates the ATC system in the wake of several embarrassing incidents involving controllers who were sleeping on the job.
US FAA Air Traffic Organization COO Hank Krakowski resigned Thursday as the agency conducts a "top to bottom review" of the way it operates the US ATC system in the wake of several embarrassing incidents involving controllers, including unresponsive controllers who apparently were asleep on the job.
Rockwell Collins was selected by Ethiopian Airlines to provide its second-generation dPAVES high-definition digital overhead audio/video IFE systems for 10 Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Mxi Technologies announced LAN Airlines completed enterprise-wide implementation of its Maintenix Software.
Although the US and EU remain apart on several key aeropolitical issues such as foreign ownership, airport security and the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, European Commission VP Transport Siim Kallas expressed optimism that the divide can and will be bridged.
US FAA announced it will place an additional air traffic controller on the midnight shift at 27 control towers around the country where only one controller is on duty.
American Airlines charged Travelport with violations of federal antitrust laws in a new lawsuit filed against the GDS company and Orbitz in a US federal court in Fort Worth.
US FAA assigned Barbados a Category 2 safety rating, which means that Barbados does not comply with international safety standards set by ICAO, based on an assessment by Barbados’ civil aviation authority. As a result, Barbados’ air carriers, which do not currently serve the US, cannot establish US service.
The African Airlines Assn. criticized the “uncontrolled” opening of market access to foreign airlines and called on the continent’s governments to support their local airlines. It also called on African carriers to forge closer cooperation to address some of the major challenges to ensuring growth and sustainability.
One year after the Eyjafjallajokull eruption, ICAO—in cooperation with the European Commission, Eurocontrol and EASA—is organizing a volcanic ash simulation exercise on April 13-14 to test the effectiveness of changes to its volcanic ash procedures and contingency plan for Europe.
European Commission VP-Transport Siim Kallas said that Asia/Pacific and Middle East airlines are regularly outperforming European and US rivals, driving the need for EU and US regulators to focus more intently on improving their airlines' long-term ability to compete globally.
US National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation of a wingtip clipping incident that occurred between an Air France Airbus A380 carrying 510 people and a Bombardier CRJ700 operated by Comair as a Delta Connection flight Monday night while both aircraft were taxiing at New York JFK.
An Air France Airbus A380 carrying 520 people collided with a Bombardier CRJ701ER operated by Comair as a Delta Connection flight Monday night while both aircraft were taxiing at New York JFK.
Lufthansa took delivery of its sixth Airbus A380 on April 4. SkyWork Airlines announced it replaced the 31-seat Dornier 328 aircraft serving its daily London City-Bern service with 70-seat Bombardier Q400s, April 4. It said forward bookings for the route have been “very strong.”
Jordan Airline Training & Simulation was selected by Air Arabia's aviation training arm, Alpha Aviation UAE, to provide pilot and ground school aviation training, to launch its Multi-crew Pilot License program. The JATS simulator portfolio includes Boeing 767-300ER FFS, Airbus A310-300, A320-200, A320-200 FFS, 737-800NG and Embraer E-170/190.
Iberia's MRO division converted an Airbus A330-200 passenger aircraft into a Multi Role Tanker Transport equipped for mid-air refueling. The conversion is part of a contract between Iberia Maintenance and Airbus Military to convert civilian aircraft into MRTTs, and reflects IB's strategy of reorienting its maintenance business toward technologically challenging, high value-added activities, said Iberia EVP-Maintenance and Engineering Jose Luis Ruiz de Castaneda.
Austrian oil company OMV stopped refueling Iran Air aircraft at Vienna International last month. Its contract with the carrier expired March 23 and was not renewed.
British Airways and Iberia will combine their cargo business and network into a single business unit reporting to International Airlines Group although both cargo operations will retain their current brands, the carriers and IAG announced last week. There will be a small cargo management team within IAG, while all other cargo employees will continue to work for their current airline. The combined business will be led by MD Steve Gunning and Deputy MD Ignacio Diez Barturen. They were previously managing directors of BA World Cargo and Iberia Cargo, respectively.
Lufthansa said that "too many problems remain unresolved" regarding implementation of airlines' inclusion in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, leaving open the prospect that the initiative will become a "fiasco" when it goes into effect at the beginning of next year.
The European Commission on Monday confirmed it intends to review its controversial Regulation 261/2004 on air passenger rights and look at “key issues” such as limitation of liability in cases of exceptional circumstances, compensation thresholds, effective rerouting of passengers, and shared risk between operators in the supply chain.
Etihad Airways has signed up local cultural ambassador Ali Al Saloom as the host and producer for its new in-flight television programme about life in the airline's home-base of Abu Dhabi.
Dubai-based flight support services provider Aviation Services Management (ASM} has denied it is in talks to sell the company and instead has outlined a growth strategy that has seen it launch a new branch in Mumbai.
