Heike Tamm

Southwest Airlines’ Flight Simulator Technicians Ratify New Agreement

The Southwest Airlines’ Flight Simulator Technicians, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), have voted to ratify a new five-year contract. Southwest’s 50 Flight Simulator Technicians provide maintenance and engineering support for the equipment at the Company’s Flight Training Center, where all of Southwest’s Pilots receive training. This agreement was reached prior to the […]

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ST Engineering’s Aerospace Sector Secures 10-year Airframe MRO Contract

Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) has released that its Aerospace sector has signed an agreement with a contract value of about US$600 million (approximately S$813 million) to provide aircraft heavy maintenance services to a major North American operator. ST Engineering will support the operator, an existing customer, on a fleet of over 160 widebody and

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OGMA to Modify Portuguese Air Force C-130 Aircraft

OGMA has been announced the prime Contractor in the Avionics Modification Program involving four Portuguese Air Force (PoAF) C-130 aircraft, which will consist of a nearly full replacement of the aircraft communication, navigation and flight control systems and instruments. Such modification will upgrade POAF C-130 aircraft to the latest CNS/ATM requirements (communications, navigation, surveillance/air traffic

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Virgin Galactic reaches higher altitude and faster speeds during latest test flight

During the second test flight in a ten-week period, Virgin Galactic announced on February 22 that its commercial SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, reached space for the second time in its five test flights, achieving an apogee distance of 295,007ft and a speed of M3.04, beating both records from its previous flight into space. This was also

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Delta Proposes Flights between Haneda, Tokyo’s City Airport

Delta has filed an application with the U.S. Department of Transportation to launch daily daytime service between Tokyo-Haneda airport and Seattle, Detroit, Atlanta, and Portland, Ore., as well as twice-daily service between Haneda and Honolulu. Delta has served the U.S. to Japan market for over 70 years, and today offers seven daily departures from Tokyo

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Go Air and Sri Lankan Airlines opt for Skywise by Airbus

Sri Lankan Airlines and Go Air have signed agreements with Airbus to benefit from the manufacturer’s cloud-based platform Skywise Core. Go Air, first Indian customer on Skywise, will use the platform to reduce operational interruptions and maximise aircraft utilisation and flight operations. This will benefit the airline’s existing fleet of about 50 aircraft and the

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