The two Sukhoi Superjet 100s placed into domestic Mexican service by Interjet last month have operated at a high level of efficiency and are being embraced by passengers, according to a senior Interjet official.
Eleven months into its duty to examine the UK’s airport capacity requirement, the government-appointed Airports Commission has given early indications it believes additional capacity is required in the form of new runways in the southeast of England.
The European Parliament has called for a cap on the use of traditional or so-called ‘first generation’ biofuels (produced from food and energy crops) and a speedy switchover to new advanced biofuels sourced from seaweed or certain types of waste.
FAA has established a university-led center of excellence (CoE) for alternative jet fuel and the environment, as the aviation community continues its push to get low-carbon biofuels to commercial scale.
Alternative aviation fuels provide the best opportunity—as compared to technological and air traffic management solutions—to decrease airlines’ carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) executive director Steve Csonka.
JetBlue Airways COO Rob Maruster said FAA has a “credibility” problem regarding the implementation of the satellite-based NextGen air traffic control (ATC) system, leading to a loss of confidence among US airlines that worry expensive investments in NextGen equipment won’t “pay off.
ST Aerospace subsidiary ST Aerospace Engines will inject an additional $2.8 million into the capital of its half-owned company, Total Engines Asset Management (TEAM).
Alrosa Air Co. and the Air Maintenance Estonia (AME) engineering team have completed the first part of a Boeing 737 delivery, after which the 737 performed its first commercial flight.
FAA, sticking to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) plan laid out to cope with a prolonged partial government closure, has called in more than 800 Office of Aviation Safety employees responsible for both field inspections and certification of “critical” products.
Etihad Airways has announced plans to start daily Boeing 777-200LR flights between Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) from June 1, 2014, giving LAX’s new international terminal another high-profile global connection.
The British Air Line Pilots Association (BALPA) has warned the European Commission will try and force through revised flight time limitations (FTL) that were rejected by the European Parliament’s (EP) Transport Committee last week.
Industry reaction to news that the 38th ICAO Assembly last week reached agreement to develop a global market based mechanism (MBM) to tackle emissions from aviation was generally positive.
Virgin Atlantic will continue to lobby for the London-Moscow route, Virgin Atlantic director-airline planning Edmond Rose told the Wings of Russia International Aviation Forum Oct. 8, adding the airline’s top management is still confident in that destination.
