Alaska Airlines is conducting inspections with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of its nine MD-80s to ensure precise and complete compliance with a Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness directive related to wire bundling in the aircraft’s wheel wells. The airline canceled three flights on April 8th and 14 flights (so far) for April 9th in order
Mexicana accepted a formal invitation to become part of the world’s quality airline alliance – oneworld -, after being unanimously elected on board by the grouping’s existing ten member airlines late Wednesday evening. Its subsidiary Click Mexicana will join at the same time, as an affiliate member of oneworld. So Mexicana and Click Mexicana will
Elbit Systems of America a wholly owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems announced the reorganization of its North America operations with seven focused business units responsible for providing turn-key solutions to its customers. These business units will be supported by four capabilities excellence centers located across the United States. The new organization will position Elbit Systems
US Airways mechanics represented by the International Association of Machinists (IAM) ratified a three-year agreement that moves all US Airways
A new Airbus A380 was rolled out of a paint hangar in Hamburg, branded with the Emirates’ livery, and on course to take to the skies with the airline later this year. Emirates is the world’s largest A380 customer with 58 of the double-decker aircraft on order.
Boeing reported thas it has flown a manned airplane powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The recent milestone is the work of an engineering team at Boeing Research & Technology Europe (BR&TE) in Madrid, with assistance from industry partners in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. A two-seat Dimona motor-glider with
BAE Systems has announced a redundancy programme for 134 jobs at its Woodford site. The area impacted is a shared service team of engineers, known internally as Engineering Internal Supply. BAE Systems has also announced a requirement for 450 redundancies from their Brough site in East Yorkshire. The areas impacted include Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Manufacturing
When it submitted its final offer on 14 March this year, Air France-KLM clearly indicated that the offer was contingent on prior agreement with the trade unions representative of the majority of the various categories of Alitalia employees (ground staff, flight crews); this agreement concerned the implementation of the Alitalia restructuring plan and its related
