In a forceful keynote speech at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s 14th Annual Aviation Summit in Washington, DC, Etihad Airways president and CEO, James Hogan, declared that this was the right time and place “to clear the air” regarding accusations from three of the top American airlines that Gulf carriers had been operating unfairly
LAM Mozambique Airlines has decided that Alkym is one of the most cost effective maintenance management solution on the market. An intensive selection process allowed LAM to consider all the options on the market with focus on a user friendly, leading edge technology delivered at a competitive price. LAM Mozambique Airlines have elected to take
Back in November 2012, Boeing had established a build rate of 5 787s per month. Just over a year and three production increases later, in January 2014 that figure was up to 10. The company is aiming for an increase to 12 units per month by 2016, and 14 by 2020. The current order book,
The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold an election for more than 2,400 production employees at the Boeing Company in North Charleston, SC. The petition was filed after a significant number of Boeing workers signed authorization cards expressing interest in union
GE Aviation recently received Level 3 appraisal of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and is the first to demonstrate compliance with the CMMI Security by Design practices (CMMI-DEV V1.3). CMMI is the industry standard for ensuring predictable, high quality software development in the Aviation industry. The appraisal was accomplished over a two-week period including
East Midlands-based RVL Group is the latest company to sign a contract to use Commsoft’s flagship OASES product to control its varied fleet of multi-role specialist operations aircraft. The five-year, five-concurrent user contract will support RVL Group’s mixed fleet of nearly 20 light twin piston and turboprop aircraft. The new RVL Group contract, which will
It was back in the first week of December 2014 that an Airbus A320 came within 20ft of colliding with a drone while landing at Heathrow airport. This, together with a number of other high profile incidents, including the flying of substantial drones around the Eiffel tower, US Embassy, the Louvre and Bastille monument all
It has been announced that Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will be selling two of its slot pairs at Heathrow by the end of October, reducing their holding to just 19 daily slot pairs. SAS have made it clear that after this sale of both slot pairs, they do not intend to further reduce their slot numbers
No jet manufacturer can afford to stand still, and for Boeing it would appear they are reaching a crossroads in their next development venture. For a while now they have been looking at carrying out an extensive upgrade to their successful 777 model, with a schedule for that to take place in 2020. In the
Passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) continued to advance in February 2015: Germany’s largest aviation hub welcomed some 3.8 million passengers, representing an increase of 4.6% year-on-year. Passenger growth was largely attributable to increased domestic traffic and a rise in demand for tourist destinations in Europe and North Africa – as well as the non-recurrence
