In light of the findings of the enquiry into the crash of Germanwings flight 9525, the European Aviation Safety Agency is aiming to create a Pilots’ medical database that will hold records of every pilot’s medical history and any visits to medical facilities, whether for physical or psychological assessment and or treatment. The move comes […]
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Aer Lingus announced a major expansion of its transatlantic route offering for 2016 with three new routes from North America to Dublin. In addition to its nine existing routes from Boston, Chicago, New York, Orlando, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Toronto to Dublin and Boston and New York to Shannon, Aer Lingus will introduce three
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The Boeing Company reported third-quarter revenue increased 9% to US$25.8bn on record commercial deliveries. Core earnings per share (non-GAAP) for the quarter increased 18% to US$2.52, reflecting strong performance across the company, and GAAP earnings per share was US$2.47. Core earnings per share (non-GAAP) guidance for 2015 increased to between US$7.95 and US$8.15, from US$7.70
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Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) have reached a new agreement, subject to ratification, on collective agreement terms for ten years for the approximately 6,500 flight attendants at Air Canada and 700 at Air Canada rouge. The agreement is subject to ratification by CUPE’s membership as well as to certain openers
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Lockheed Martin successfully completed the maiden flight of the F-16V. The October 16th flight marks the first time an F-16 has flown with Northrop Grumman’s advanced APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), which will deliver a quantum leap in capability for the venerable F-16. The F-16V “Viper” advanced avionics configuration
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Kevin Gettemeier joined the AV8 MRO team as new Technical Sales person, effective Tuesday, October 20th. Kevin has more than forty years of aviation experience in flying, aircraft maintenance, operations and business development. AV8 MRO is an FAA and EASA-approved repair station with the inhouse capabilities to repair and overhaul all series of Hawker landing
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GE Aviation assembled the 1,000th GEnx engine, just a mere five years after the first production engine was built at GE’s Durham, North Carolina. The first GEnx engine entered service on a Boeing 747-8 aircraft in 2011, and the engine program has accumulated five million flight hours and 900,000 cycles. Production volume of the GEnx
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Embraer and SkyWest have signed a firm order for an additional 19 E175s jets. The aircraft will be flown by SkyWest Airlines, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SkyWest, under a Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Delta Air Lines. The transaction will be included in Embraer’s 2015 fourth-quarter backlog. Delivery of the first aircraft is expected for
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Avolon, the international aircraft leasing company, announced that, at the extraordinary general meeting held on October 21st, the Company’s shareholders voted in favor of the proposal to authorize and approve the previously announced Merger Agreement, dated September 3rd, 2015 (the “Merger Agreement”), among Bohai Leasing (Parent), Mariner Acquisition (Merger Sub) and the Company, pursuant to
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United Technologies reported third quarter 2015 results. Third quarter earnings per share of US$1.61 and net income attributable to common shareowners of US$1.4bn were down 17% and 19% respectively, versus the third quarter of 2014. Results for the current quarter include restructuring costs of US$0.06 per share, while earnings per share in the year ago
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