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Having had their offer accepted back in June this year, the Atlantic Gateway consortium led by JetBlue Airways and Azul Brazilian Airlines founder David Neeleman, together with Portuguese bus company Barranquiro Group, have been given the go ahead by the Portuguese anti-trust regulator Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) to acquire a 61% stake in TAP Portugal,

Spirit Airlines, a low-cost carrier based in Miramar, Florida, is preparing for the installation of the first Airbus Competence Training (ACT) classroom in the Americas. This state-of-the-art maintenance training suite is being set-up at Spirit’s new maintenance facilities in Detroit, Michigan (U.S.). Spirit’s maintenance personnel and engineers will receive initial and recurrent training in the

Already years overdue and billions of dollars over Budget, Bombardier are faced with an uncertain future over its CSeries. For some time Bombardier had been wanting to break into the narrow-body 110 – 130 seat sector of the market that was being monopolized by Airbus, Boeing, Comac and Embraer. In July 2004 it announced plans

Air Asia has yet to rebound from the financial pressure it has been placed under since the release of a damning financial report by Hong Kong-based analysts GMT Research in June this year. The report questioned the accounting practices, profit outlook, cash flow and structure of Asia’s largest low-cost airline based on fleet size. The

Universal Avionics Authorized Dealer, Heli-One, completed installation of Universal Avionics UNS-1Fw Multi-Missions Management System (MMMS) and MFD-640 Multi-Function Display on a CHC Helicopter Airbus Super Puma aircraft. With a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) in hand, rotorcraft operators have a mission-ready flight deck solution. The UNS-1Fw MMMS provides the operator with centralized control of the aircraft

Following the news released on Friday that Air France intend to take substantial measures to help reduce expenditure, violence erupted at today’s management meeting when it was stormed by protesters. Xavier Broseta, Head of Human Resources, had the shirt ripped from his back as he made his way out, being forced to climb a fence

More than 400 employees of Fraport AG simultaneously performed the symbolic first cut of the spade on October 5th, marking the ground-breaking and start of construction for Frankfurt Airport’s new Terminal 3. This symbolic act has set the stage for securing the future competitiveness of Frankfurt Airport and, consequently, new job opportunities in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main