United Airlines and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) announced that United will offer its Flight Attendants an Enhanced Early Out Program, which allows participants a one-time opportunity to voluntarily separate from the company and receive a severance payment. United also announced that it is recalling all Flight Attendants who are on voluntary and involuntary
AgustaWestland has built and delivered from the Philadelphia assembly line the 15th AW119Kx for Life Flight Network, the latest addition to their Pacific Northwest-based fleet of aircraft. The AgustaWestland engineering and production teams acheived tremendous success by integrating the Garmin G1000HTM flight deck system into the proven AW119 platform, certifying the new avionics suite, and
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing arm of GE, reported that its engine leasing unit completed a purchase-and-leaseback transaction with TUI Travel for two new GEnx engines. The engines will be used as spares to support the TUI Travel airlines’ Boeing 787 fleet.
MTU Maintenance Zhuhai has completed its 1500th shop visit since it commenced operations in 2003. The milestone was achieved through the scheduled shop visit of a CFM565B from an overseas customer. This highlights both the strong recent growth of this engine program and the increasing global reach of MTU Maintenance Zhuhai. In 2013 the company
Aerospace manufacturer Alcoa has signed a long-term contract to supply aluminum sheet and plate products to Boeing. The multiyear contract, valued at more than $1bn, is the largest ever between the two companies. “This historic agreement not only continues the 35-year Alcoa-Boeing partnership, it will take our collaboration on next-generation metallic technologies even further,” said
Air France-KLM unveiled its new Perform 2020 strategic plan on September 11th. Perform 2020 is the successor to Transform 2015, which represented the first phase in the Group’s turnaround. While maintaining the imperatives of competitiveness and the ongoing strengthening of the Group’s financial position, this growth plan will focus on the following three strategic areas:
AWAS has delivered a second 757-200 freighter aircraft on lease to Cargojet, a leading Canadian cargo airline that recently celebrated its 10th year of service. The aircraft is from AWAS’ existing portfolio. Cargojet, the most awarded cargo airline in Canada, is a leading provider of time sensitive overnight air cargo services and operates a network
Andreas Otto, currently Executive Board Member for Product and Sales at Lufthansa Cargo in Frankfurt, was named to serve as the new Chief Commercial Officer of Austrian Airlines AG effective October 1st, 2014. He replaces Karsten Benz, who will return to the Lufthansa Group in Frankfurt as of October 1st, 2014.
Intrepid Aviation delivered one new Airbus A330-300 to Skymark Airlines. The aircraft is equipped with Rolls Royce Trent 772-B engines and is subject to a long-term lease to the Japanese carrier. This marks the fourth aircraft to be delivered from Intrepid Aviation on lease to Skymark.
Ameco Guangzhou Outstation started line maintenance for A330-300 from Aeroflot Russian Airlines on September 1st, 2014. It’s the 8th international 3rd-party customer for Ameco Guangzhou Outstation after Qatar Airways, Egyptair, Air France, Turkish Airlines, Air Madagascar, Garuda Indonesia as well as Iraq Airways. Headquartered in Beijing, Ameco’s international third-party line maintenance business extends to outstations
