The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has called on world leaders meeting at the United Nations this week to work together to find solutions to the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe in a message to its members today. The situation has already seen more than 514,000 people cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe with almost 3,000 people perishing on the journey or reported missing. &...
Some 51 flights scheduled by the Pakistani flag carrier have been cancelled in three days after pilots refused to work following a dispute over conditions, an airline spokesman said Saturday. "Due to pressure from PALPA (Pakistan Airline Pilots' Association) so far 51 flights have been cancelled and it has affected 5,000 passengers since Thursday," spokesman for Pakistan...
Unimpressed Air New Zealand passengers have expressed their disdain after spending the night stranded in Hong Kong's airport. Flight NZ80 was due to leave Hong Kong for Auckland at 7:00 p.m. local time (midnight Saturday New Zealand time) but after two hours of waiting onboard passengers were told the plane had engine failure. Passengers told NZHerald.co.nz they were fed up with a lack o...
Malaysia may sign a treaty with four other nations to set up an independent tribunal to try people responsible for last year's downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said a meeting was held among leaders of the five nations on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly here to pursue the matter after R...
Heathrow Airport may benefit from the scandal at Volkswagen AG because it will prod the UK to clamp down on diesel pollution, helping bring London's busiest hub into compliance with European Union rules. That's the view of Heathrow Chief Executive Officer John Holland-Kaye, who is seeking permission to build a third runway even though emissions near the airport have exceeded E...
The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) is to make a decision on whether to close Hengchun Airport in Pingtung County in the second half of next year, given the airport's extremely low passenger rate, CAA Director-General Lin Tyh-ming said yesterday. Lin said the Pingtung County Government has commissioned a feasibility study to assess the possibility of using the airport for i...
Neptune Aviation is thrilled to have four new contracts to provide firefighting jets to the U.S. Forest Service, saying the new agreements mean all of their planes will be at work next fire season. The U.S. Forest Service has been working for the past several years to upgrade its contracted stock of propeller-driven fire tankers to newer, faster jet-powered tankers with larger capaci...
For Brad Sheehan, senior vice president of operations for ExpressJet and a 1997 graduate of Auburn University, the future of aviation is promising. Sheehan spoke to a group of Auburn students Thursday about current and future opportunities in aviation following several years of downturn in the industry. “I got an invitation to come back and talk at the school that I spent four years an...
United Airlines' labor woes continue as talks with International Brotherhood of Teamsters-represented aviation maintenance technicians and related workers stalled yesterday. "Delta and American are setting the pace and United is dragging its feet," said Clacy Griswold, lead negotiator for the Teamsters. "Our hardworking aviation professionals deserve industry- lead...
Officials are trying to bring more business to the county through the runways of Oakland Country International Airport in Waterford Township. An estimated $300 million in business aircraft lined the runways as officials attempted to lure new clients to the state’s second-busiest airport at an expo — believed be the first of its kind in the state — on Sept. 25. Oak...
Members of the Senate, yesterday, gave their approval for amendments to the Civil Aviation Act, which seeks to increase the membership of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) Board. The Bill proposes to appoint three additional persons to serve on the board, which will bring the total to 12 up from nine. The board currently has eight appointed individuals and one ex officio member, the D...
Small aircraft was travelling between Masamba and Makassar on Friday Officials confirmed contact had been lost with the DHC-6 Twin Otter plane Plane was carrying three crew and seven passengers for one-hour flight A passenger plane carrying 10 people including three children has gone missing in Indonesia. The country's Aviastar airline said contact had been lost...
In a stunning last-minute walkback as the APEX Expo ended on Thursday afternoon, BAE Systems changed its tune on precisely what is to be streamed, and to what devices, under its agreement with two Hollywood studios. It would now appear that only one studio has approved streaming early window content to passengers’ personal entertainment devices (known as BYOD...
In the landmark Chicago Area Transportation Study of 1955-1962, urban planners defined desire lines as “the shortest line between origin and destination [expressing] the way a person would like to go, if such a way were available”. Though the basic concept behind these primal human “forces” predates cities, maps or even roads, few if any have applied the innately human...
Anaïs Marzo da Costa, Airbus’ newly appointed Head of Aircraft Interiors Marketing is, unusually for someone in her team, not from an engineering background. “Normally at Airbus, when you’re in marketing you’re an aeronautical engineer, and I am not,” Marzo da Costa laughed as she sat down with Runway Girl Network, fresh from presenting a Comfort and Ambienc...
Disruption is booming in the travel industry, with one notable exception: Air travel. Many would say, and have said, that air travel is broken, but can it be fixed? Can we tear it up and start fresh? Those are dangerous, blasphemous questions to ask, even if you’ve been helping the aviation industry imagine, design, and deliver a better self, practically from the beginning. At the A...
Two Honeywell Aerospace technologies — the SmartPath Ground-Based Augmentation System and the EGTS electric taxiing system — have been recognized by the Air Transport Action Group as solutions that can help support the aviation industry’s goal to cut CO2 emissions in half by 2050 against a 2005 baseline. Honeywell’s SmartPath GBAS system augments GPS signa...
Russian carrier Transaero has stopped selling tickets and has been set its final day of operations on December 15, according to a statement published in its Facebook page. “Upon the decision of the Government to reorganize the activities of Transaero and to ensure the transportation of our passengers, the sales of tickets for our flights has been stopped” said the statemen...
Denver Center has experienced numerous incidents in the last 13 months in which aircraft have incorrectly flown the YOKES4 RNAV SID, DEHLI transition by making an unexpected turn after YOKES and going direct to DEHLI or some other point in their flight plan instead of correctly following the procedure to CHICI and then DEHLI. This is potentially dangerous because turning unexpectedly after...
Thomas Klühr is to succeed Harry Hohmeister as CEO of SWISS in February 2016, as part of a broader realignment of the Lufthansa Group. The new group organization is designed to provide a more functional alignment and thrust, alongwith flatter hierarchies. Harry Hohmeister, who is already a member of the Lufthansa Group Executive Board, will take charge of the newly-created position of Hub...
WOW Air (Keflavik) has announced it will add two new low-fare routes starting in May 2016 to both Montreal (Trudeau) and Toronto (Pearson) from Keflavik (near Reykjavik). An Icelandic low-cost carrier is out to create some turbulence in the Canadian market with plans to offer deep-discount fares on transatlantic flights out of Toronto and Montreal. WOW air, founded by serial entrepreneur...
