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The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold an election for more than 2,400 production employees at the Boeing Company in North Charleston, SC. The petition was filed after a significant number of Boeing workers signed authorization cards expressing interest in union […]

GE Aviation recently received Level 3 appraisal of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and is the first to demonstrate compliance with the CMMI Security by Design practices (CMMI-DEV V1.3). CMMI is the industry standard for ensuring predictable, high quality software development in the Aviation industry. The appraisal was accomplished over a two-week period including

East Midlands-based RVL Group is the latest company to sign a contract to use Commsoft’s flagship OASES product to control its varied fleet of multi-role specialist operations aircraft. The five-year, five-concurrent user contract will support RVL Group’s mixed fleet of nearly 20 light twin piston and turboprop aircraft. The new RVL Group contract, which will

It was back in the first week of December 2014 that an Airbus A320 came within 20ft of colliding with a drone while landing at Heathrow airport. This, together with a number of other high profile incidents, including the flying of substantial drones around the Eiffel tower, US Embassy, the Louvre and Bastille monument all

It has been announced that Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will be selling two of its slot pairs at Heathrow by the end of October, reducing their holding to just 19 daily slot pairs. SAS have made it clear that after this sale of both slot pairs, they do not intend to further reduce their slot numbers

No jet manufacturer can afford to stand still, and for Boeing it would appear they are reaching a crossroads in their next development venture. For a while now they have been looking at carrying out an extensive upgrade to their successful 777 model, with a schedule for that to take place in 2020. In the

Passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport (FRA) continued to advance in February 2015: Germany’s largest aviation hub welcomed some 3.8 million passengers, representing an increase of 4.6% year-on-year. Passenger growth was largely attributable to increased domestic traffic and a rise in demand for tourist destinations in Europe and North Africa – as well as the non-recurrence

For a number of years here have been concerns over the potential for lithium ion batteries to ignite and cause a fire onboard planes. This includes batteries used in mobile phones. However last year there were a number of incidents involving lithium batteries, notably a fire discovered by baggage handlers on a Boeing 737-800 moments

Norwegian has reached an agreement to finally end the pilot strike, which has lasted for 11 days. “I am very relieved that the strike has been called off and that our passengers finally can feel confident that our flights will operate as normal again,” said Norwegian’s CEO Bjørn Kjos. With the new collective agreement, Norwegian

Thomas Global Systems, a leader in the design, production and support of avionic display systems technology, has reached a significant milestone since ramping up repair turn-times. The group’s 15,000th avionic cathode ray tube (CRT) display was produced in the new Irvine, California facility just 18 months into operations at the site. The state-of-the-art facility maximizes