In response to pitches made by Airbus and Dassault Aviation for the right to operate the cruise phase of commercial flights with only one pilot in the cockpit, the European aviation regulator has ruled out the prospect of flights with a single pilot until at least 2030. However, the regulator is considering the possibility of
Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest aviation group in Africa, has inaugurated a new aviation training centre in the city of Hawassa. The new training centre will serve as the second campus for Ethiopian Aviation Academy (EAA) and will currently be providing pilot trainee programmes. The facility accommodates different types of classrooms, three training simulators, three
Southwest Airlines’ (Southwest) dispatch employees, represented by the Transport Workers Union Local 550 (TWU 550), have voted in favour of their new contract. The agreement covers Southwest’s more than 450 Flight Dispatchers, Assistant Dispatchers, Flight Superintendents, Dispatch Specialists and Dispatch ATC Specialists and becomes amendable on June 1, 2027. Southwest’s Facilities Maintenance Technicians, represented by
The Sacramento County Department of Airports, which operates Sacramento International Airport (SMF), has announced SMForward, a US$1.3 billion expansion project aimed at improving Airport capacity to accommodate anticipated passenger growth over the next seven years. This will be the largest construction programme in the airport’s history. SMForward will be made up of six individual projects
In the last full week of January 2023, global air cargo tonnages dropped significantly, as could be expected given the early start of the Lunar New Year, but further analysis of underlying trends reveals the impact of the weakening global economy on air cargo, the latest preliminary figures from WorldACD Market Data indicate. Figures for
Aircraft design and certification specialist, Aerospace Engineering Solutions (AES), is powering into 2023 with the launch of a new office in Malaga, Spain, as the company embarks on a phase of international expansion. Trading as AES Spain, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AES, the new operation will enable the business to develop new partnerships with commercial
Norwegian low-cost airline Flyr has entered administration just 18-months after starting operations. IBA Insight reveals that Fly operated a fleet of 12 leased aircraft (six Boeing 737 NGs and six Boeing 737 MAXs). Seven of these were owned by Air Lease Corporation. Flyr was a very seasonal operation, with its top city pairs featuring summer
The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released U.S. airlines’ December fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.471 billion gallons of fuel, 5.3% more fuel than in November 2022 (1.398 billion gallons) and 5.2% less than in pre-pandemic December 2019. The cost per gallon of fuel in
Qatar Airways and Airbus have reached an amicable and mutually agreeable settlement in relation to their legal dispute over A350 surface degradation and the grounding of A350 aircraft, avoiding a UK court trial. A repair project is now underway to get these aircraft safely back in the air. The details of the settlement are confidential,
Having taken over from Warren East in January this year, Rolls-Royce’s new CEO, Tufan Erginbilgic has warned all staff at the FTSE-100 firm that it must change the way it operates if it is to have a future. In a global announcement Erginbilgic stated that: “Every investment we make, we destroy value. We under-perform every
