On September 22nd, Air Canada broke ground on a new CAD$90m aircraft hangar project at Toronto Pearson Airport that will support the airline’s ongoing expansion of its Toronto global hub. Once complete, the new Hangar 5 building will cover an area equal to seven professional hockey rinks and accommodate five aircraft at one time. Once
In an 88% turnout, 96% of easyJet pilots have voted for industrial action over problems with rising levels of fatigue. On September 11, it was reported that the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) members would vote within the forthcoming weeks and the results would be released on September 21. While talks are still ongoing between
L-3 Commercial Training Solutions (L-3 CTS) has been awarded a contract by All Nippon Airways (ANA) to build and deliver an Airbus A320 Full Flight Simulator (FFS). Based on L-3’s RealitySeven flight training simulation solution, the device will be installed at ANA’s flight training facility in Tokyo, Japan, and ready to deliver training in September
EDM, a leading global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, reported that Ethiopian Airlines’ new Aviation Academy is fitted out with a range of its cabin crew training simulators. The US$100m state-of-the-art Aviation Academy was officially opened at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa earlier this year by the country’s
Beset by problems, most recently relating to a cooling system inside the turbine which had the potential to affect startup times, Pratt & Whitney has had to drastically reduce its target for engine output to 150 units in 2016, down from an originally estimated 200. Connecticut-based United Technologies, the parent company of Pratt & Whitney,
Aero Control has finalized their minority owned business re-certification by the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), strengthening their ability to serve the business needs and diversity goals of their clients.
Despite a number of major cost-cutting exercises which saw the UK engineering giant Rolls-Royce post an unexpected profit for the first half of 2016, the company, under the helm of new CEO Warren East, has continued along the same path, this time seeing 200 management jobs being cut. This is yet another part of the
FlyPlymouth is to launch its second fundraising campaign this week, running through to 29th October, seeking to raise £75,000. This money will provide the pre-revenue company with operational funding as well as a war chest as it prepares for an important planning battle to get Plymouth City Airport re-opened – initially for general and business
Turkmenistan Airways, the flag-carrier airline for Turkmenistan, has narrowly avoided suspension of all flights in Russian airspace owing to the failure to settle a US$220,000 debt payable to local Russian air traffic management. The airline had originally assured Russian authorities and the Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsa, that the debt would be settled on August
Singapore Airlines, the launch customer of the Airbus A380, has decided not to extend the initial 10-year lease agreement under which it acquired the first aircraft in 2007. This is worrying news for Airbus, which has already halved its production rate for the A380, and concerns now surround whether the aircraft will slip back to
