FedEx pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), reached a tentative agreement with FedEx management on an amended collective bargaining agreement. The parties have been actively negotiating since 2011. Discussions started in 2011 under a special interim discussions agreement that had originally been made by both parties to assist in narrowing the
Like a number of Asian countries, Indonesia is struggling to maintain internationally accepted safety standards, established by the ICAO, as demand for flights continues to increase. By 2034 this demand is expected to triple according to IATA. The country’s situation has not been helped with a number of recent major accidents including the crash of
Pan Am International Flight Academy has been approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), effective immediately, to conduct the Airline Transport Pilot Certification Training Program (ATP-CTP), a new training requirement for pilots wishing to qualify for the FAA Airline Transport Pilot exam. Increased safety was the number one goal in the FAA changes made which
The Greek government has confirmed the revival of a deal originally agreed back in 2014 for Fraport to lease 14 airports, predominantly tourist destinations including Corfu, for a period of forty years. Fraport and Greek energy firm Copelouzos had agreed one of country’s biggest privatization deals since the start of the debt crisis with the
Air China will commence Beijing-Mumbai nonstop service on October 25th, 2015. As the forthcoming only service from Mainland China to Mumbai, it will spare passengers departing from Beijing for Mumbai the trouble of having to make a detour by transferring in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok and make it much easier to get to the
A major explosion outside the popular Erawan Shrine in Bangkok on Monday has killed at least 21 people and reportedly injured a further 140. As of yet no organization has claimed responsibility leaving speculation to run rife. A second explosion occurred today caused by someone who was witnessed throwing a pipe bomb off a bridge,
Constant Aviation announced the launch of their Beechjet Center of Excellence at Cuyahoga County Airport (KCGF). CGF is located just 15 miles from downtown Cleveland. “Our Beechjet Center of Excellence will solely focus and work on the Beechjet airframe. With over 500 Beechjet’s operating in North America, we wanted to open a Beechjet Center of
American Airlines and Cuba Travel Services plan to operate the first charter flights between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Jose Marti International Airport (HAV) in Havana later this year, providing travelers the only nonstop service connecting the West Coast to Cuba since travel restrictions were eased. American’s new charter service between Los Angeles and
HyperSolar, the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, commented on recent news from both a well-known commercial airplane manufacturer, as well as researchers who successfully executed the first hydrogen fuel cell-powered unmanned aerial vehicle flight in the Middle East. A group of researchers at the Department of Mechanical
AeroCentury has reached a new management agreement with its current management company, JetFleet Management (JMC) which continues JMC’s management services through August 2025 and provides AeroCentury with significant enhancements over the prior management agreement with JMC. “We studied a number of alternatives for our day-to-day operations, and we determined that JMC offered the best mix
