Marking its first birthday in May, Air Partner Fuel, exhibited at the leading regional airline/airport networking event Routes Africa at Ezulwini Valley, Swaziland.
AVISA, the global aviation and airworthiness specialist, is expanding its services in the Middle East after securing a major new contract with Gulf Air, the third contract in the past three years between the businesses.
Swiss International Air Lines took delivery of its seventh A330-300 last week. The carrier expects its last two A330-300s on order for delivery to arrive in August and December respectively. The aircraft are replacing Swiss's A330-200s.
China's airlines reported collective net income of CNY1.23 billion ($180 million) for the month of May owing to continuing domestic economic growth, according to CAAC.
Japan Airlines and American Airlines applied Friday to the Japanese Transport Ministry for antitrust immunity to operate as if they are one airline for commercial purposes on flights between North America and Asia, while ANA, United Airlines and Continental Airlines filed a similar application for ATI with the ministry.
The European Commission and US FAA Friday in Madrid signed a memorandum of cooperation regarding "civil aviation research and development" with a specific emphasis on jointly pursuing modernized ATC systems. The first technical annex of the memorandum is "dedicated to SESAR-NextGen cooperation," according to the EC, which called it "a major achievement" that will ensure "effective interoperability" between the satellite-based ATC systems that the US and EU previously had been pursuing on separate tracks.
The UK's Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service confirmed that it was unable to broker a deal between British Airways and the Unite union to end the long-running dispute between the airline and its flight attendants over pay and working conditions.
Excessive government fees and regulation, aging infrastructure and the emergence of major airlines in the Middle East and Asia are threatening European airlines' long-held position at the forefront of the global air transport industry, according to Swiss International Air Lines CEO Harry Hohmeister.
CANSO (Civil Air Navigation Services Organization) said it established an Americas office supported by CANSO members FAA, Aena of Spain, NAATC (Netherlands Antilles), NAV Portugal and SENEAM (Mexico). The office will be located in the SENEAM headquarters in Mexico City and will primarily be focused on "transforming air traffic management performance in the Caribbean and Latin America." Aena agreed to support the office by funding a fulltime Latin American and Caribbean liaison officer.
The global recovery in air travel was "dented" by the Icelandic volcano-related airspace closures in Europe, IATA reported, adding that European markets took a major hit. In its latest "Premium Travel Monitor" issued yesterday, the organization released figures on air traffic in April that detail the extent to which the nascent recovery was damaged by the closure of most of Europe's airspace April 15-21.
Building on the tremendous success of the CAST (Commercial Aviation Safety Team) program in improving US airline safety, aviation stakeholders embarked on the next major step toward eliminating fatal accidents.
US airlines were bullish on the industry's recovery in comments to investors yesterday, predicting robust second-quarter unit revenue increases. Speaking at the Merrill Lynch Global Transportation Conference in New York, available via webcast, United Airlines CFO Kathryn Mikells said the recovery is "greater than we were able to predict six months ago." She said UA's consolidated unit revenue will rise 26% or more year-over-year in the current quarter.
The European Commission yesterday issued a report on the use of so-called body scanners that could lead to creation of a legal framework for introduction of the machines at airports on an EU-wide basis.
Alaska Air Group subsidiaries Iberia, Spanish airport and ATC authority Aena and the Ineco transport engineering firm Etihad Airways signed a service agreement
An 18-month NASA research effort to visualize the passenger airplanes of the future produced some ideas that at first glance appear to be out of an old 1950s aircraft magazine. Instead of exotic new space-age designs borrowed from science fiction, far more familiar shapes dominate advanced concept studies that four industry teams completed for NASA's Fundamental Aeronautics Program in April.
New York-based Bernstein Research issued an upbeat report on Pratt and Whitney’s PW1000G geared turbofan. It said Pratt expects a 16% better fuel burn for the 30,000-lb.-thrust engine on the A320 after including effects of drag and weight caused by the larger fan. Noise is expected to be 20 dB better than Stage 4, which should result from simple physics as the fan blade tips remain subsonic in a geared engine, it said.
Representatives from five leading airlines will speak at ATW's 3rd Annual Eco-Aviation Conference taking place at the Capital Hilton in Washington June 23-25. The newest addition to the conference agenda is Lufthansa Senior VP-Corporate Fleet Nico Buchholz, who will discuss environmental sustainability in the context of airline fleet decisions.
