With the Thai civil aviation authority failing to tackle a number of major flaws in its commercial aviation standards, the FAA has been left with no option but to downgrade Thailand’s Department of Civil Aviation from Category 1 to Category 2. As a consequence, Thai airlines are now prohibited from either launching or expanding networks
Boeing, the University of British Columbia (UBC) and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and other forest-industry waste into sustainable aviation biofuel. Canada, which has extensive sustainably certified forests, has long used mill and forest residues to make wood pellets that are used to
Aviator Airport Alliance sites in Norway have gone live with Rockwell Collins’ ARINC AviNet Enterprise Hub (eHub) messaging service. Aviator is using ARINC eHub to send and receive critical aviation operational messages—such as passenger and cargo data—for its airline customers in Norway. Aviator has been working with Rockwell Collins to implement the company’s AviNet suite
Faulty equipment has been given as “major factor” leading to the crash of AirAsia flight QZ8501 which crashed into the Java Sea on 28 December, 2014 killing all 162 people on board, according to Indonesian officials. The Airbus A320-200 was travelling from Surabaya to Singapore and while investigators initially indicated that stormy weather was likely
Finnair’s strategic objective is to double its Asian traffic by 2020 from the level of 2010. To enable its growth, Finnair has ordered 19 new Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, which also increase Finnair’s cargo capacity considerably. With a view to the growth of its cargo traffic, Finnair is constructing a new state-of-the-art cargo terminal to
A major milestone was reached in Chinese commercial aviation history with the delivery of COMAC’s first ATJ21 to Chinese Airline Chengdu Air. The project, which started back in 2002, finally came to fruition after many setbacks, caused mainly by a lack of aerospace design and engineering resources, together with a paucity of Chinese companies able
Lufthansa and the German trade union ver.di agreed on an increase in remunerations for about 30,000 staff members from Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Technik and LSG Sky Chefs. As part of a comprehensive package, they also entered into a fundamentally reformed collective labour agreement regarding the corporate pension scheme. From April 2015 up until December
The release of a report from Juniper Research based in Hampshire, England, has shown that the adoption of in-flight Wi-Fi by budget airlines will boost the connected IFE (in-flight entertainment) market, increasing the number of connected commercial aircraft from the current level of 3,200 to over 10,400 by 2020. This new research, titled In-Flight Entertainment
Finmeccanica-AgustaWestland has signed long term training service contracts with customers operating AW139 intermediate twin helicopters in the United States and Canada. Signing a five year training contract, helicopter emergency medical services provider STARS, operating three AW139s throughout Western Canada, is extending its agreement with AgustaWestland to provide recurrent training for its AW139 pilots. A non-profit
EDM, a leading global provider of training simulators to the civil aviation and defence sectors, reported that the A350 Door Trainer it manufactured for Singapore Airlines, has passed its Site Acceptance Test (SAT). After building and then shipping the A350 Door Trainer to Singapore Airlines’ Training Centre, a team from EDM travelled to Singapore last
