by John Goglia I don’t know how much more dire the predictions about pilot and mechanic shortages need to get before action is taken. Reading Boeing’s annual pilot and maintenance technician forecasts tells me the alarm bells are ringing, but no one seems to be listening. And Boeing’s 2015 forecasts once again predict an unprecedented demand for personnel to fly and maintain t...
Jet Airways India Ltd, Etihad Airways PJSC’s partner, paced a rally in Indian airline stocks after the region’s costliest fuel prices were cut to the lowest in five years. Jet Airways, majority owned by Naresh Goyal, climbed 8.2 per cent to its highest since January 2011, making it the best performing share on the Bloomberg Intelligence Global Airlines Valuation Peers Index in the p...
Airbus Group SE won an agreement from ANA Holdings Inc, Japan’s largest airline, to buy three of its A380 superjumbos, said a person familiar with the plan, giving the European plane maker a welcome vote of confidence for an aircraft that hadn’t won a new airline customer in three years. The parent of All Nippon Airways Co will take delivery of the planes from 2018, with plans to us...
The lifting of economic sanctions on Iran this year will put pressure on major Middle East carriers, creating new competition for those who have built a business on connecting regional and international traffic. Sanctions are expected to be lifted sometime in the first half of this year following June’s nuclear accord between Iran and world powers, according to previous comments by wester...
It’s a new year and as always, I expect it will be a busy year for aviation. Here’s what we’re going to be watching in 2016. 1. American Airlines has entered into labor talks with its largest union group, the Transport Workers Union/International Association of Machinists alliance who represents thousands of mechanics, ground workers and simulation technicians. America...
Thomas Flohr, Founder and Chairman of VistaJet, will receive the "Aviation Entrepreneur of the Year Award." In 2004, Mr. Flohr introduced a revolutionary aviation business model focused entirely around his customers and brand new, identical aircraft. With over 55 Global and Challenger jets, the company has assembled the largest privately owned Bombardier fleet. VistaJet is th...
Working in conjunction with Rockwell Collins, StandardAero’s Springfield, Illinois business aviation MRO facility, has completed its first Rockwell Collins TTR-4100 TCAS 7.1 Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for a Falcon 50EX aircraft. This new TTR-4100 TCAS processor replaces the aircraft’s existing TTR-920 processor and incorporates new 7.1 logic required to meet the Euroc...
Three Allegiant flights that departed from Orlando Sanford International Airport in the past week had to be diverted midflight. On Christmas Eve, 141 passengers on a flight to Youngstown, Ohio, were diverted to Jacksonville International Airport for an "engine problem," said a spokeswoman for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority. On Monday, a plane flying from Orlando Sanford to App...
In the world of inflight entertainment and connectivity, the industry has seen what could be considered a serious content play (Global Eagle Entertainment’s string of CSP-related acquisitions), a hardware/integration play (by LiveTV and later its acquirer Thales) and a capacity/service play courtesy of satellite operator ViaSat. The latter firm, whose regional Ka-band Exede service is poweri...
Bahrain carrier Gulf Air, has become the first airline in the world to be certified with Information Technology ISO certifications in the five areas of Quality Management, Environmental Management, Service Management, Information Security Management and Energy Management Systems. Following a comprehensive internal and external audit conducted by RINA Services, one of the oldest international ce...
Emirates and Airbus teamed up to search for the ultimate A380 fan in the UAE ahead of the Dubai Airshow in November. A Facebook competition, jointly organised by Emirates and Airbus, garnered over 1,000 entries in less than three days. To enter, participants had to express why they were ardent fans of the Emirates A380, in less than 380 words. The winner, Yves Heye, became the envy of...
Irkut Corp of Russia delivered more than 60 Su-30 and Yak-130 aircraft to the Russian Air Force and international customers in 2015. Irkut has fully implemented the commitments in 2015 under its state defense order as well as export contracts. In 2015, the new Su-30SM jet was delivered to the Republic of Kazakhstan and Yak-130 Combat training aircraft to the Air Force of the Republic of Belarus...
