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Pinnacle Airlines released that it has commenced a comprehensive program to reduce short- and long-term costs and enhance liquidity. Planned initiatives include seeking modifications to the company’s agreements with its mainline airline partners, equipment lessors, debt holders, real property lessors and vendors. The company will also seek to work with its pilots and other employees (both

Boeing members of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) approved a four-year contract extension. The agreement covers employees represented by the union in Washington, Oregon and Kansas, and extends the contract to September 2016. The vote ratifies an agreement between the company and union that builds on an emerging spirit of cooperation and

Flight Power Repair Group, an FAA/EASA certified repair facility for the Pratt & Whitney JT8D engine line, has selected Quantum Control to manage its specialized repair facility in Doral, Florida, whose services include the overhaul of Disks (LLP’s), Spacers, Stators, Cases, Housings, Tubes and Ducts. Flight Power Repair Group is leveraging Quantum to automate all

American Airlines and OpenSkies, a premium subsidiary of British Airways, American’s oneworld and trans-Atlantic joint business partner, have signed a new codeshare agreement that gives American’s customers more travel options when flying to and from Europe and OpenSkies customers easier access to major business markets in the United States . The agreement allows American to

JetBlue Airways has completed an agreement to purchase two bundles of eight slot pairs, one at New York LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and the second at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), recently made available in an FAA auction. A slot pair provides authorization for one daily arriving flight and one daily departing flight and will

Boeing celebrated the opening of its new Interiors Fabrication facility in North Charleston. The Interiors Responsibility Center South Carolina team will manufacture 787 interior parts including stowbins, closets, partitions, class dividers, floor-mounted stowbins used by flight attendants, overhead rests for flight-crews and flight attendants, video control stations and attendant modules for Boeing South Carolina. The

Cambridge Airport released that it is one of the first UK airports to introduce the new GPS enabled (APV Baro RNAV Instrument Approach) procedure to supplement its existing SRA/ILS/NDB and modifiable PAPI facilities.  The approach has been validated for its principal runways, 23 and 05.  Cambridge is now one of the few airports in the

Avia Solutions Group, a group of business aviation companies, together with its subsidiary FL Technics is further strengthening its position in the global aviation technical support and maintenance market and is set to open its first representative office in Kuala Lumpur by the end of this year. ‘From its new office in Kuala Lumpur Avia