Back in March 2014, 11 airlines began to trim back flight services to Venezuela in light of rising debt owed for non-payment of ticket sales to appropriate airlines. At the time it was estimated that Venezuela owed airlines in excess of US$3.80bn for ticket sales during 2012 and 2013 and as a result of the […]
Airbus and Aerolineas Argentinas have signed a strategic agreement to establish the first Airbus maintenance training collaboration in South America at the airline’s facilities in Buenos Aires. The venture will deliver maintenance and engineering training services for A320, A330 and A340 aircraft and will implement Airbus’ training standards, including its dynamic trainers and teaching techniques.
The forthcoming International Air Transport Association (IATA) meeting is likely to get off to a heated start this Sunday as the row over accusations of Gulf airlines benefitting from unfair subsidies rolls on. However it is not now just the three main US carriers who started the row (Delta, United and American Airlines) who are
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On the 17th May it was revealed that the Portuguese government had received three offers for their share of Transportes Aéreos Portugueses, SGPS, S.A (TAP). The government’s 66% stake in the airline is to be split as 61% available to investors and 5% to airline staff. However the 5% has already been a bone of
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Cathay Pacific Airways has selected Rockwell Collins’ new visual system that combines the JVC Kenwood VS2500 laser-hybrid projector with Rockwell Collins’ industry-leading EP-8000 image generator. The new visual system will be installed on the airline’s first Airbus A350 XWB full flight simulator this month in Hong Kong. The VS2500 projector brings together the new extended
Jazz Aviation, a subsidiary of Chorus Aviation released that its dispatchers, represented by the Canadian Air Line Dispatchers Association (‘CALDA’), have ratified their tentative agreement reached on May 27th, 2015. The term of the agreement is just under 11 years; expiring on December 31st, 2025. CALDA represents 62 dispatchers employed at Jazz. The term of
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On May 9th, 2015 an Airbus Group SE A400M military cargo plane crashed just outside Seville, Spain, shortly after take-off, killing four of the six test flight crew on board. Subsequent to thorough examination of events by Spanish air accident investigators, it has been confirmed by Airbus that the accident is believed to have been
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On the release of startling results showing that 67 of 70 security tests for illegal weapons were failed across the USA and subsequent demand from Jeh Johnson, Homeland Security Secretary, that safety standards have to be improved, Mr Melvin Carraway, the acting Administrator for the Transport Security Administration (TSA), has been reassigned. In a statement
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Back on the 28th January this year, Tokyo-based Skymark filed for bankruptcy protection having failed to carve a profitable niche in Japan’s competitive low-cost flight market. The filing for bankruptcy protection was as a result of defaulting on their six-aircraft Airbus A380 order stage payments and Airbus’ subsequent actions in initiating proceedings against the airline.
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Mystery still surrounds the reason why a Singapore Airlines (SIA) Airbus A330-300 suffered a double engine failure while flying over the South China Sea at an altitude of 39,000ft. The aircraft, registered as 9V-SSF and operating flight SQ836, was carrying 182 passengers and 12 crew, having departed Changi Airport just before 5:30 p.m. local time
