Juneyao Airlines, one of the fastest-growing regional airlines in China operating out of Shanghai in China, has selected Thales’s avionics suite for its new Airbus A320 Family fleet. The contract signed with Thales will equip an initial 17 Airbus single aisle aircraft with the Thales Flight Management System (FMS), the navigation solution of choice for
ATR and Stockholm-based Braathens Aviation signed an agreement for the purchase of four additional ATR 72-600s. This announcement represents the conversion into firm orders of four options from a previous deal inked at the Paris Air Show in June 2015. On that occasion, ATR and Braathens Aviation had inked a deal for five firm ATR
Delta Air Lines and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will launch a codeshare agreement with India’s Jet Airways that brings convenient new travel options for customers flying from Europe and the United States via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to India and beyond. Effective March 27th, 2016 and subject to government approvals, Delta and KLM customers flying from
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister has gone back on his “guarantee” made to the House of Commons that he would make a final decision on the proposed solution to a runway expansion desperately needed for the South East of England by the end of the year. The Airports Commission had spent three years preparing
Currently, the United Nations (UN) are holding talks in Paris on climate change. However, the aviation industry is not presently covered under the UN talks, and nor is shipping. Despite this, it is hoped that European officials will be able to ensure a paragraph covering these two industries to be inserted. Despite the exclusion, as
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced its airline industry outlook for 2016 which sees an average net profit margin of 5.1% being generated with total net profits of US$36.3bn. IATA also announced a revision to its airline industry outlook for 2015 upwards to a net profit of US$33bn (4.6% net profit margin) from US$29.3bn
The USA has launched a challenge against the Chinese policy of exempting ‘home grown’ aircraft from taxes, making it difficult for American manufacturers to be competitive. In the last three years alone the USA has exported over $US500 million worth of small-to-medium-sized planes to China. Currently China has a policy of imposing 17% ‘value added
As part of a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Flight Training, Rockwell Collins’ integrated visual systems will be featured on two Airbus A320 full flight simulators that will be based at Airbus’s new training centers in Mexico City, Mexico. “Our integrated visual systems are proven in the most challenging training exercises, which is especially valuable
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) Districts 141 and 142 announced tentative agreements with Hawaiian Airlines that cover the carrier’s 2,200 Mechanic and Related, Clerical, Office, Stores, Fleet and Passenger Service employees. The proposed five-year contract provides pay raises retroactively from October 1, 2015, enhances job security, holds the line on health
With the release of the report indicating a faulty connection in the A320’s Rudder Travel Limiter Unit (RTLU) as the reason for the crash of AirAsia flight QZ8501 in December 2014, which killed all 162 passengers and crew, the Indonesian Transport ministry has reacted positively by ordering the inspection of the RTLUs of all A320’s
