Boeing has taken on 600 employees and new hires to sort out delivery problems at its Renton, Washington plant which it blames on a shortage of engines and fuselages. The company is yet to confirm how many retirees it intends to take on. The move comes ahead of the plane giant’s release of August order
Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) is calling on Ryanair pilots to take industrial action from Wednesday, September 12, 2018, 3:01 am to Thursday, September 13, 2018, 2:59 am. All pilots permanently employed at Ryanair bases in Germany are called to strike. All flights scheduled to depart from German airports during this time will be affected. VC is
Despite bad weather being attributed as the cause of July’s crash of an Aeromexico Embraer 190 at Durango International Airport, in a letter sent to the carrier’s workers Chief Executive Andres Conesa has confirmed that all three of the plane’s pilots have since left the company. In the letter he said that: “Irrespective of the
Zurich-based aviation consulting firm Amros-Global GmbH and Munich-based AviTrader CS GmbH announced the formation of a new cooperation to increase the portfolio of aviation consulting services. The new venture consolidates the extensive consulting expertise of both companies. Amros-Global and AviTrader CS offers a one-shop-stop portfolio of aviation consulting services for airlines, MRO providers and aircraft
Nordea Bank’s Topi Manner is to succeed Pekka Vauramo as chief executive of state-controlled Finnair. Vauramo, who is credited with returning the airline to profit growth will leave in November to join engineering firm Metso. Manner has been with Nordea Bank, the Nordic region’s largest bank, for over 20 years, holding a variety of positions.
The world’s passenger fleet will more than double to 48,000 aircraft in 20 years with traffic growing at a resilient 4.4% per year, driving a need for 37,390 new passenger and freighter aircraft according to Airbus’ new Global Market Forecast 2018-2037. Growth drivers include private consumption increasing 2.4 times in emerging economies, higher disposable incomes
With 415 votes for and 119 votes against, the U.K parliament has given the go-ahead for the construction of a third runway at the city’s busiest airport, Heathrow. However, this is just one more step in many phases that will have to be gone through before any construction work. The vote gives the green light
Up until now there has been a great deal of rhetoric over what European companies will do if Britain does not secure a solid and clear Brexit deal when it exits the European Union on March 29 next year. That has now changed with Airbus, the second-largest global plane manufacturer making it clear that there
At the Future of Transportation World Conference in Cologne, Germany, Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc company, announced a newly formed collaboration with Safran on the development of innovative hybrid electric power system solutions to support Bell’s vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft concept. Bell Helicopter’s Director of Innovation, Scott Drennan, commented that: “Bell is at
As part of its restructuring, Rolls-Royce has confirmed that 4,600 jobs are to go worldwide, including 3,000 positions based in the UK, the majority being managerial and administrative roles. The company has not ruled out the need for compulsory redundancies. It has also been confirmed that some engineers will also be leaving, predominantly those in
