Bombardier Aerospace welcomes AirVolga (Volga AviaExpress) of Volgograd, Russia to the CRJ aircraft family. At a press conference in Volgograd, the airline announced that it is preparing to start service with two previously owned CRJ200 LR regional jets acquired from a third party. AirVolga has stated that the CRJ200 LR aircraft are part of a […]
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Cascade Aerospace has been awarded a contract by CAE Inc. to design and manufacture a turnkey C-130J fuselage trainer for Canada
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Bristow Group announced that Elizabeth D. Brumley has been promoted to the position of Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Ms. Brumley was appointed Acting Chief Financial Officer in April of this year.
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Pinnacle Airlines released capacity and operational results for its Pinnacle Airlines subsidiary for July 2009. Pinnacle reported that traffic in July decreased 0.6% compared to June 2009, capacity decreased 2.9% and the load factor was up 1.9 pts to 81.8%.
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TransDigm Group Incorporated has acquired certain aerospace related assets from a wholly-owned subsidiary of Woodward Governor Company for approximately $48 million in cash. Woodward recently acquired this business as part of its acquisition of HR Textron, Inc. The product line has expected calendar 2009 revenues of approximately $20 million with almost half coming from the
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Southwest Airlines confirmed that the carrier submitted its binding cash offer of more than $170 million to acquire Frontier Airlines, which will be sold at auction as part of Frontier’s bankruptcy case. The bid was submitted to Frontier in accordance with the procedures established in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New
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Alaska Airlines and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) jointly announced ratification of a two-year contract extension covering the airline’s 658 aircraft technicians. The extension was ratified by more than 77% of the technicians who voted. The extended contract, which becomes amendable on Oct. 17, 2011, provides technicians with a 1.5-percent pay scale increase on
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Boeing released that the company’s training organization, Alteon, will be renamed Boeing Training & Flight Services. The new name will be phased in across the organization’s global network in the months ahead. The new name reflects the organization’s expanded capabilities for providing flight, maintenance, cabin safety and flight operations training. With the addition of flight
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SAS Group’s traffic decreased by 13.6% during July and seat capacity was down 17.3% vs. 2008. SAS Group carried 2.0 million passengers in July, down 14.1 % vs. 2008 and the total passenger load factor in June was 83.8%, up 3.6 p.u. vs. July 2008.
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Air Canada reported second quarter 2009 net income of $155 million including gains on foreign exchange of $355 million. This compares with net income of $122 million in the second quarter of 2008 that included gains on foreign exchange of $48 million. EBITDAR amounted to $135 million, a decrease of $114 million from the second
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