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A U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge on Friday granted Frontier Airlines’ motion to reject its contracts with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters covering mechanics and material specialists. The Teamsters, which represent Frontier’s mechanics, have been struggling to stop Denver-based Frontier from permanently outsourcing all of its maintenance work to El Salvador-based Aeroman. Though Frontier and the

SAS Group have decided to reduce surcharges with 3 EUR on Domestic, intrascandinavian and European flights. On Intercontinental flights the surcharges will be reduced by 5 EUR. These changes will be valid as from November 12 and is motivated be a less volatile and lower oil price. At the same time the USD has strengthened

Unite, Britain’s biggest union, is seeking an urgent meeting with BMI management, to demand assurances from the company over jobs, following the news that Bmi Chairman, Sir Michael Bishop, is to sell his controlling stake to Lufthansa. The union is concerned that consolidation across the airlines will affect employment and that the fight for control

Precision Avionics and Instruments (PAI) was granted an “Unlimited Avionics” rating from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This new rating establishes PAG as one of only 22 FAA Repair Stations that have Unlimited Accessory, Unlimited Avionics and Unlimited Instrument ratings. Of the 22 repair stations that have all three of these “Unlimited” Ratings, 12 are

Mr. James Goodfellow has joined the Board of Directors of Discovery Air. Mr. Goodfellow is a Chartered Accountant and was made a Fellow of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1986 for distinguished service to the profession. He has over 40 years experience in public accounting and providing assurance and advisory services, primarily to

Members of the Transportation Workers Union of America (TWU) at Frontier Airlines today ratified a long-term labor agreement with the airline. The agreement was negotiated to extend certain earlier agreed upon wage and benefit concessions. “I am gratified that the TWU membership continues to demonstrate, with this vote, their willingness to work hand in hand

Delta Air Lines released to its 75,000 employees the following memo announcing leadership changes following the company’s recent merger. Internal Memorandum To: Delta Colleagues Worldwide From: Richard Anderson and Ed Bastian Subject: The New Delta Officer Team Today we are pleased to introduce the officer team that will lead the new Delta and its more

Relationship Gives World’s Third Busiest Airport Strong Presence in China; DFW and Shanghai Trade Expertise from Air Service to Environment. Hailing the new relationship as a milestone in Texas-China trade and tourism relations, leaders of Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport and the Shanghai Airport Authority (SAA) signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding establishing DFW-SAA as

Anoto Group, the inventor of Anoto Digital Pen and Paper technology, announces British Airways’ innovative use of Anoto’s Digital Pen and Paper technology that is helping British Airways to keep to its flight schedule at London’s Heathrow airport. Anoto’s digital pens enable aircraft dispatchers to communicate mission critical information securely from airside directly to the

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