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Ryanair's Aer Lingus stake at risk after UK court ruling

Aer Lingus after a UK court said regulators there could investigate whether the airline should hold such a large stake in its rival.In a decision yesterday, the British Court of Appeal ruled the ... ...

FAA Study Finds GA Airports ‘Pivotal’

18-month study on general aviation airports last week that "highlights the pivotal role [they] play in our society, economy and the entire aviation system." Titled "General Aviation ... ...

UTC’s PZL Mielec To Make Eclipse 550 Airframes

Eclipse Aerospace is outsourcing manufacturing of airframe structural components for the new Eclipse 550 very light jet to PZL Mielec, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. UTC is the parent ... ...

Sheltair Opens First Privately Operated FBO at JFK

For the first time in its 65-year history, the FBO at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport now has a private operator-Sheltair. The company marked the milestone with an official ... ...

NTSB Adds More to G650 Accident Docket

April 2, 2011 crash of a flight test Gulfstream G650 . The first entry was on April 14, 2011, and included photographs. The NTSB then added no other material to the docket until January 24, and ... ...

Probe into EC225 North Sea Ditching Centers on Gearbox

The EASA issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive for Eurocopter EC225 medium-twin helicopters, requiring operators to closely monitor vibrations. The emergency action stems from a May 10 ... ...

NATA Releases 2012 Compensation Survey

NATA has published the results of its 2012 compensation survey of general aviation service employees, which includes salaries and benefits for pilots, line-service personnel, maintenance ... ...

Columbia Avionics Gets STC for Garmin GTN Touch-screens in Cessna 650

Columbia Avionics & Aircraft Services has received FAA STC approval for installation of touch-screen Garmin GTN-750 and GTN-650 GPS navcoms in the Cessna Citation 650. Similar STCs are pending ... ...

ACTU raises concerns about new Qantas boss

Fiji The Australian Council of Trade Unions says it will seek a meeting with Qantas International to discuss the appointment of its new chief executive.Yesterday, Simon Hickey was promoted to the ... ...

Qantas and Jetstar cut back Territory flights

Qantas has announced it is slashing its flights to and from the Northern Territory, including direct services to Uluru.The airline will halve the number of flights between Cairns and Uluru from 14 ... ...

QANTAS Group Announces Changes To Northern Territory Operations

The Qantas Group today announced it will make some adjustments to flights servicing the Northern Territory.The following changes will be made:-Qantas will reduce services between Ayers Rock (Uluru) ... ...

Unmanned spy planes are being launched from 63 locations in 20 states – Is there one near you

- which envisions a surveillance society and features thought police – look downright prophetic. Following what has been described as a ... ...

Summer Travel - What airline passengers need to know

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Ajit Singh cancels US visit to deal with Air India pilots' strike

Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has cancelled the visit of a delegation led by him to Seattle and Charleston in the United States to take delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft in view of t ...

Congressman Mica Calls For “Most” Airports To Ditch TSA

Congressman John Mica has called for ';most'; of the nation’s busiest airports to evict TSA screeners and replace them with private security, as Orlando International Airport ... ...

AZAL, Pegasus Airlines carry out joint flights

Azerbaijan Airlines AZAL and Turkish Pegasus Airlines are expanding cooperation. The companies are carrying out joint flight on Istanbul-Baku-Istanbul route on seven days of the ... ...

Aeroflot puts eighth SukhoiSuperjet on flight schedule

MOSCOW, May 23 (Itar-Tass) -The Russian Aeroflot airline company has put the eighth Superjet100 plane into service. The aircraft was named in honor of merited pilot Yevgeny Barabash, Aeroflot ... ...

Jet Airways Likely To Order 100 Planes

India's Jet Airways is expected to order more than 100 narrow-body aircraft for up to USD$3.75 billion in 2012/13 as it grabs market share from its troubled rivals. The airline is understood ... ...

Malaysian Maps Out USD$798 Mln Funding

Malaysia Airlines said it planned a 10-year, MYR2.5 billion ringgit (USD$798 million) sukuk to shore up its capital base under a three-pronged funding. The funding plan is part of the ailing ... ...

Silver Airways will provide commercial air service to Shoals

According to the Times Daily , Silver was one of two airlines that submitted proposals to provide commercial air service at the Northwest Alabama Regional Airport. Silver will fly 12 non-stop ... ...

China Airlines Launches Freight Service to Luxemburg

Twice-weekly service will leave Taipei and fly via Kuala Lumpur and Chennai China Airlines has launched a new freighter service linking Asia and Europe via India and Southeast Asia. The ... ...

Flyers win miles with American Airlines game for Facebook

Fort Worth, Texas - American Airlines recently announced the launch of its game Fantasy Travel for Facebook, available through Facebook of American Airlines in Spanish, www.facebook.com/AAespanol. ... ...

Boeing's first South Carolina-made 787 to fly Wednesday

The Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier reports the North Charleston, S.C.-made 787 will make a five-hour flight to an undisclosed location. The Boeing (NYSE: BA) plane is expected to be delivered to ... ...

Frontier Airlines Flies into Harrisburg with Nonstop Service to Denver and Orlando

Frontier Airlines flies into Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg International Airport (MDT) today with nonstop service to/from both Denver International Airport (DEN) and Orlando International Airport ... ...

Air China’s Second Daily Nonstop Los Angeles-Beijing Flight Gets the New Generation Boeing 777-300ER Upgrade, June 1, 2012

Reflecting Air China’s commitment to the Southern California market, the airline’s second daily nonstop flight between Los Angeles and Beijing (CA 988/CA 987) will be upgraded to the ... ...

Las Vegas and Disney Will Be the Most Popular Travel Destinations for U.S. Vacationers This Summer

In an analysis of nearly 1,000 travel-related keywords searched an estimated 2.4 billion times on Google during January and February 2012, AdGooroo found Disney accounted for 7.3 percent of all ... ...

WestJet Introduces New Unaccompanied Minor Program

WestJet today announced details of its new unaccompanied minor program. The program launches following feedback from guests encouraging the airline to unveil a service that allows children to travel ... ...

Boeing to Modernize Flight Deck and Avionics for US and NATO AWACS Fleets

The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has received a $368 million Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) contract to develop a design that modernizes the flight deck and avionics of the U.S. and ... ...

Female pilot tosses passenger for sexist remarks

SAO PAULO (AP) - A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making sexist comments about women flying ... ...

Behind the scenes at Atlanta's new terminal

the opening of Atlanta's new Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal in Today in the Sky.The terminal's been up and running for a week now. But see what the scene was like on opening ... ...

Aeroflot Recommends Dividend On Improved Results

The board of Russia's Aeroflot has recommended an annual dividend of 1.8081 roubles (USD$0.57) per share for 2011, the company said. The airline, controlled by the Russian government, said ... ...

US Airways, Delta raise prices as summer heats up

Bloomberg reports . As the improving economy has prompted more Americans to travel this summer, the number of airline tickets booked for use in June through August has climbed 4.3 percent. Prices ... ...

P&W Begins Compressor Testing On Next Gen Regional Turboprop Engine

May 23, 2012 - Pratt & Whitney Canada has begun testing of the compressor for the next generation regional turboprop engine, a key step in the company's technology demonstrator ... ...

Cessna Continues 100 series Single Engine Aircraft Safety Education Initiative

May 23, 2012 - Cessna Aircraft Company is building on a proactive safety initiative started in 2011 designed to educate single engine owners and operators on new inspection ... ...

Virgin America Opens New Flight Simulator Pilot Training Center - The First of Its Kind in Northern California

Virgin America marked the opening of a new flight training facility with a state-of-the-art Required Navigational Performance (RNP)-certified CAE Airbus A320 full-flight simulator— the first such ... ...

Boeing Delivers UPS's 50th 767 Freighter

Boeing (NYSE: BA) and UPS celebrated the delivery today of the cargo operator's 50th 767-300 Freighter. The airplane joins the world's largest 767 Freighter ... ...

Crew landing plane in Philly sees possible flare

US Airways Express Flight 4321 from Elmira, N.Y., touched down without incident, airline spokesman Todd Lehmacher said. The plane was carrying 34 passengers and three ... ...

United to fly Dreamliner on Denver-Tokyo route

United's biggest hub is at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. United has been tussling with Southwest Airlines over Southwest's effort to win permission for international ... ...

AirTran Airways debuts San Antonio-to-Mexico City service

Follow this company and Juarez International Airport in Mexico City and Cancun Airport. The flight will begin May 24. AirTran is a wholly owned subsidiary of ... ...

Museum to display 49 maps to support E..

By Kim Bo-eun The National Map Museum is to display various maps from foreign countries which have the East Sea and Dokdo marked on them, starting Friday. The exhibition will show 49 original ... ...

Samsung, Apple says no compromise

By Cho Mu-hyun The widely anticipated two-day meeting between chief executives of Samsung and Apple yielded no agreement between the parties mired in a hot legal dispute over copyright ... ...

YouTube celebrates 7th anniversary wit..

Girls' Generation perform during "MBC Korean Music Wave in Google" at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif., Monday, to celebrate the anniversary of video sharing service ... ...

Jurisdiction over GIs expands

By Chung Min-uck Korea has gained more legal jurisdiction over United States soldiers here who commit criminal acts. Officials from Seoul and Washington agreed to grant Korean officials more ... ...

Hana Financial hit by savings bank sca..

Ex-head to be questioned over kickbacks allegations By Kim Jae-won Prosecutors raided the main office of Hana Capital in southern Seoul, Wednesday, to find out whether former Hana Financial ... ...

Lee's future at crossroads

By Jung Min-ho Bolton Wanderers midfielder Lee Chung-yong is at a crossroads following his ... ...

Free ‘iVy League’ education

By Chris Hoaldridge Have you ever dreamed of studying at one of the most prestigious universities in the United States, such as Harvard, MIT, or Stanford? If so, brace yourself and get ready ... ...

Youth taken hostage by tuition fees

A university student, center, works at a restaurant to save up for tuition fees. Working part-time jobs has become common among college students as they need to earn money to cover rising tuition ... ...

Moelis Capital Buys Mxi; GasTops Suit Settles

New York City-based private equity company Moelis Capital Partners (MCP) has acquired Mxi Technologies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Ottawa, Canada-based Mxi Technologies provides ... ...

Lufthansa Technik Switzerland Restructures

Lufthansa Technik Switzerland will concentrate exclusively on line maintenance, light base maintenance and logistics services for its customers at Euro ... ...

CAE OK’d To Offer Falcon Mx Training in China

CAE has become the first independent training provider to be qualified as a Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) approved training organization for maintenance training for Dassault Falcons ... ...

GE Prepares for the Olympic Games

GE Aviation has teamed with Ocean Sky Jet Centre, a Luton FBO, "[to] allow us to best serve our customers so they can enjoy the games," said Brad Mottier, vice president and general ... ...

Flightech Launches Mx Management Program

Maintenance consulting firm Flightech Advisory Services is offering maintenance management service to aircraft owners and flight departments that don't want to be burdened by having their own ... ...

JSSI Teams With Avplan for Maintenance Security

Jet Support Services, a provider of hourly-cost maintenance programs for business aviation, has teamed with Avfuel's flight planning company, Avplan Trip Support, to offer clients the resources ... ...

Delta Set To Get Southwest’s Boeing 717s — Will They Still Wear Southwest’s Livery First

The AirTran Boeing 717s will go from their current livery to Delta's. We will not see one in Southwest livery. Image by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindren. Yesterday, it was announced ... ...

ExecuJet and Greenwich AeroGroup Expand China Agreement

Greenwich AeroGroup and ExecuJet have expanded their existing relationship to include ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services in Mainland China. Under the terms of the renewed agreement ExecuJet will be ... ...

Altenrhein Named Phenom Service Center

Embraer has appointed Altenrhein Aviation as a new Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 authorized service center. The MRO will support Embraer's entry-level and light jets starting in this year's ... ...

Air Charter Services Offers PC-12 Service in India

Pilatus Aircraft has appointed Air Charter Services (ACSPL) as its official PC-12 sales and service center in India. The designation makes ACSPL responsible for India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, ... ...

Kevin Bang Named Dallas Airmotive RTC Manager

Kevin Bang has joined Dallas Airmotive as manager of its Phoenix Regional Turbine Center (RTC). Bang will be responsible for day-to-day operations, which focus on the PT6A, JT15D, R-R 250 and ... ...

Woman who claimed she had a bomb on US Airways flight will not be charged

BANGOR, Maine -- A woman who forced a US Airways flight traveling from Paris to Charlotte, N.C., to make an emergency landing in Maine after she claimed she had a "device" implanted in her ... ...

Qatar Airways starts flights to Iraqi Kurdistan

ARBIL, Iraq: Qatar Airways on Wednesday began services to Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, and is to start flights to Baghdad next month, the airline and an Iraqi ... ...

Australian airline Qantas to separate domestic, international businesses

SYDNEY -- Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. will split its loss-making international services from its profitable domestic ones, the company said Tuesday. From July there would be separate ... ...

Florida ranks No. 2 for least-expensive airline tickets

least-expensive airfares in the past 12 months , a new ARC analysis found. ARC data analysts reviewed 119 million tickets that originated at the top 150 airports in the continental United States, ... ...

Delta Airlines closing SeaTac call center

A Delta Airlines call center near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will close Sept. 1, eliminating 189 jobs. The airline filed a so-called WARN notice for the layoffs Wednesday with the ... ...

Southwest advances plan for international Houston flights

Dallas-based Southwest plans to fold AirTran into the Southwest brand over the next several years and operate those AirTran international flights with Southwest ... ...

Cellphones on Planes Are Not a Safety Threat

it will allow passengers to make calls with their cellphones during flights between London and New York. Last month, I was on a Delta Air Lines flight (1063) that struck birds during take-off from ... ...

Airlines stand to reap fuel-cost windfall

Not entirely. Despite a barrage of negative publicity, most airlines are doing fine. And with oil prices tumbling Wednesday below $90 a barrel in New York for the first time in seven months, their ... ...

Southwest Airlines eyes leasing Boeing 717s to Delta Air Lines

Southwest Airlines Co. Southwest Airlines Co. has tentative plans to lease its Boeing Co. 717 jets to Delta Air Lines Inc. over a period of two years, starting in the second half of 2013, according ... ...

Southwest Airlines unveils plan to build $100 million airport expansion in Houston

Wednesday23 May 20125:51 p.m. Southwest Airlines has revealed a key piece of its international flight strategy, announcing plans to build a five-gate facility at Houston's Hobby Airport. ... ...

United Airlines drops family perk

united airlines . families with small children and diaper bags and car seats and folded up strollers will no longer get the perk. they have dropped the perk they say to simplify the boarding ... ...

No Charge For US Airways Scare Passenger

The passenger who said she had a surgically-implanted device in her body and caused a US Airways jet to divert to Maine will not face criminal charges in the security scare, prosecutors said on ... ...

NT Tourism at Risk with Cutback of Qantas, Jetstar Services

Qantas aircraft maintenance engineers who were at the receiving end this week of Chief Executive Alan Joyce's ax, another victim to the announced revamp of the flag carrier would be the tourism ... ...

First Boeing 787 built in South Carolina takes flight

Daniel McCoy / WBJ The first Boeing 787 Dreamliner built at the company's plant in North Charleston, S.C., took to the skies on ... ...

Pedophile to undergo chemical castrati..

First use of forced medication may trigger dispute over rights violations By Yi Whan-woo Korea will use chemical castration on a convicted repeat child molester for the first time, an official ... ...

Dubai Airports CEO Griffiths wins award

DUBAI - Dubai Airports Chief Executive Officer Paul Griffiths has received the Serco Global Pulse Customer Award in recognition for his work in building Dubai International into one of the ... ...

Airline volume takes off

Chinese airline companies will purchase some 2,500 aircraft from 2011 to 2015, pushing the country's fleet of civilian aircraft to over 4,500, Li Jiaxiang, head of the Civil Aviation ... ...

MK 943/23 May Melbourne/Mauritius Flight rescheduled for 24 May 2012

Flight MK 943 left Melbourne Tullamarine airport at 13h35 (Local time Melbourne) with 181 passengers and 13 crew members. Shortly after takeoff, the Captain was informed of a suspicious item on ... ...

Enjoy the Garuda Indonesia Experience to over 51 cities throughout Indonesia and beyond.

As the national carrier of the Republic of Indonesia - Garuda Indonesia is a full-service network airline which currently serves 33 domestic routes within Indonesia and 26 international routes ... ...

Aviation and clean technology leaders launch midwest aviation sustainable biofuels initiative

United Airlines, Boeing, Honeywell's UOP, the Chicago Department of Aviation and the Clean Energy Trust announced the formation of the Midwest Aviation Sustainable Biofuels Initiative (MASBI), ... ...

AirAsia plane giveaway taking off!

Leading low-cost airline AirAsia is dealing with nearly three quarters of a million potential passengers as its Facebook plane giveaway competition takes off. Since the April 10 launch of the ... ...

Asia Aviation Sets IPO Price At THB 3.70 Per Share; Bookbuilding 10 Times Oversubscribed

Asia Aviation PCL or AAV, the major shareholder of Thai AirAsia, has priced its initial public offering of stock at THB3.70 per share. The 1,212.5 million shares, to be offered to investors during ... ...

Justices' stocks at issue in Boeing-ICO appeal

An appeal filed in the California Supreme Court contends that two state appellate court justices owned stock in Boeing Co. while they were involved in deciding whether to reverse a ... ...

Domestic giant Southwest sticks nose into international air

The airline is picking up AirTran's flights to Mexico and the Caribbean after buying its rival last year. It's getting a new reservations system to handle overseas bookings and is seeking ... ...

China To Buy 2,500 Planes Over Five Years - Report

China plans to buy more than 2,500 commercial aircraft from 2011 to 2015, bringing the country's total fleet size to more than 4,500 jets, Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday, citing the ... ...

Boom Or Bubble Plane Makers Walk The Line

From chilly Burnsville, Minnesota, Tim Zemanovic has an usual perspective on the global aircraft market, which is booming - some say overheating - as the world's largest plane makers ... ...

Philippine Air Force to acquire fighter planes, choppers

MANILA, Philippines--The Philippine Air Force will have an upgrade by acquiring new planes this year, Lt. Col. Miguel Okol, PAF spokesperson, told Radyo Inquirer in an interview early Thursday. ... ...

Qantas adds more east coast flights

Alan Joyce said in a statement.Jetstar also will increase capacity on key leisure routes to destinations such as the Gold Coast and Ballina, he said.The announcement comes a day after the airline ... ...