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IAI board approves consolidation of three business groups into single aviation group

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) board of directors has approved IAI’s CEO and President, Joseph Weiss proposal to implement a structural transformation. The main initiative implemented under the transformation is the establishment of a single aviation group for all of IAI’s aviation businesses. Currently, IAI is structured in six independent groups, each with turnover of several […]

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IAI board approves consolidation of three business groups into single aviation group

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) board of directors has approved IAI’s CEO and President, Joseph Weiss proposal to implement a structural transformation. The main initiative implemented under the transformation is the establishment of a single aviation group for all of IAI’s aviation businesses. Currently, IAI is structured in six independent groups, each with turnover of several

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Václav Havel Airport Prague reached historic milestone when handled 15 million passengers

Prague Airport has reached the 15 million serviced passengers milestone which is the greatest number in 80-year-long history. The largest airport in the Czech Republic has thus beat the year-old record from December 2016 when announced the 13 millionth serviced passenger. Prague Airport has been reporting records in operational results all year long and became

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U.S. – Brazil Open Skies agreement moves closer

Brazil Congress’ lower house has approved an Open Skies agreement between the U.S. and Brazil, which in turn means that the way has been further cleared for an intended partnership between American Airlines Group and LATAM Group SA (LATAM). The agreement still requires ratification from the Brazil Senate. Having been signed in 2011, the agreement

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Wingbox Aviation of the Philippines chooses OASES from Commsoft

Los Banos, Manila-based technical services organisation, Wingbox Aviation, has chosen Commsoft’s MRO IT system, OASES, to support its diversifying fleet technical management operations. Currently supporting over 130 aviation operations in more than 55 different countries, OASES is one of the most successful aviation engineering and maintenance systems, combining a very high level of technical sophistication

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Lufthansa Technik continues training of Air Berlin Technik's trainees

Effective January 1, 2018, Lufthansa Technik AG will be the new training organization for approximately a dozen young people who are currently in training programs at Air Berlin Technik. As a consequence, all of Air Berlin’s aircraft mechanic and avionic trainees who began their training in 2015, 2016 or 2017 will have the opportunity to

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1,100 flights canceled as Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson Airport loses all power

A fire in underground tunnels led to a crippling power outage and total disruption of services at the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport, on Sunday. The outage began at 1.00 p.m. local time, and lasted for approximately eleven hours, with power restored just before midnight. The cause of the fire is, as yet,

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Czech Airlines Technics and Czech Technical University in Prague to co-operate in aviation

Czech Airlines Technics (CSAT), a daughter company of the Czech Aeroholding Group providing aircraft repair and maintenance services, and the Faculty of Transportation Sciences of the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) have signed a Memorandum of Co-operation in the field of aviation. The organizations are to work together on projects, share professional knowledge and

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Bad weather continues to affect Finnair’s traffic in the coming days

The storm in Central Europe and the runway restrictions caused by heavy snowfall in Helsinki Airport on Tuesday congested Finnair operations at Helsinki Airport severely on Tuesday evening. An overtime working ban by Finnish aviation union also contributed partly to the situation. Finnair had to cancel over 60 flights and many flights were delayed. Finnair

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