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The Business Travel Coalition launched a petition to urge the Obama administration to force airlines to provide ancillary fee information to all sales channels. The petition was posted on the “We the People” platform on the White House website, which allows any American to create and post a petition on the site and collect signatures.
ATR has obtained Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) approval for the ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 to operate in Russia and the CIS, the company said in a statement.
Malaysia Airlines has reported a third-quarter net income after tax of MYR37 million ($12.1 million), resulting in a small operating profit of MYR4 million for the period. This reverses an operating loss of MYR192 million for the year-ago period.
ST Aerospace has injected $1.73 million of additional capital into Total Engine Asset Management (TEAM), its engine leasing joint venture (JV) with Maurbeni Corp. The company said this brings STA Engines’ total share capital contribution in TEAM to $3.4 million. TEAM was set up in June 2011 to provide engine leasing services for CFM56-3, CFM56-5B and CFM56-7B engines that power narrowbody aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737.
Airbus has firmed up plans to increase the maximum take-off weight (MTOW) of its A330-200 and -300 twinjets and will offer an increased fuel capacity option on the A330-300.
US House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) blasted the Transportation Security Administration for skipping a Thursday House hearing on aviation security.
It was too long coming and it burdens European carriers with carbon taxes while their rivals get a reprieve, but the European Commission’s decision to suspend the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) for a year is without question a welcome move.
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) has been selected by US House of Representatives’ Republicans to become the chairman of the chamber’s influential Transportation and Infrastructure Committee when the new Congress convenes in Washington DC next month.
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. is working with PowerJet to certify the long-range variant of its SSJ100, ahead of next year’s first delivery to Russian carrier Gazpromavia Aviation.
Cal Jet Air, operated by XTRA Airways, will offer 9X-weekly service to Mazatlan from Houston, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Denver, Colo.; Los Angeles, Calif. and Oakland, Calif. Jan. 9-April 9. Qatar Airways launched 3X-weekly Doha -Belgrade Airbus A320 service. It will also launch Doha service to Warsaw, Poland (Dec. 5), Gassim, Saudi Arabia (Jan. 7); Najaf, Iraq (Jan. 23); Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Feb. 20); Chicago, USA (April 10); and Salalah, Oman (May 22).
Pratt & Whitney will invest more than $63 million in an expansion of its manufacturing operations at its West Palm Beach, Fla. facility beginning in the first half of 2013.
The Maldives government has terminated a $511 million contract awarded to Bangalore-based GMR Group in 2010 for the upgrade, expansion and operation of Male International Airport.
Slovenia-based Adria Airways (JP) said it has been unofficially informed that the European Commission (EC) has opened an investigation into the state's measures for the benefit of the company from 2007 to 2011.
