Airbus"™ "BLADE" laminar flow wing demonstrator makes first flight
Airbu"™ A340 laminar-flow "BLADE" test demonstrator aircraft (A340-300 MSN001) has made its successful maiden flight for the EU-sponsored Clean Sky "Blade" project. The aircraft, dubbed "Flight Lab", took off from the Tarbes aerodrome in southern France at local time 11:00, and after a series of successful tests it landed at Airbu"™ facilities in Toulouse Blagnac. […]
Norwegian Air says has recruited more than 140 pilots from Ryanair
Norwegian Air Shuttle has recruited more than 140 pilots from Irish rival Ryanair in 2017, a spokesman for the Nordic budget carrier said on Monday. Norwegian Air declined to give an exact number. Ryanair on Friday announced plans to cancel between 40 and 50 flights per day until the end of October…
How Qantas Is Using Data And Mobility To Cut Emissions
Qantas pilots and GE Aviation have developed a new flight data application (app), FlightPulse, that provides pilots with data to help them fly more efficiently and help reduce carbon emissions. FlightPulse is the first fully commercialised product to be developed with mobile services from GE"™s Predix platform. It uses recorded aircraft data and smart analytics […]
American Airlines is eliminating U.S. jobs, say hundreds of protesters at MIA
About 400 demonstrators picketed in front of American Airline"™s Terminal D at Miami International Airport Thursday afternoon, marking the second time the airline"™s workers have protested job outsourcing this summer. The protest, organized by the Transport Workers Union, is the latest in the ongoing saga to settle a new contract between American and its aircraft […]
WestJet ULCC venture: Success depends on one key cost area – Labor.
We all have observed that as unit cost gap narrowed between network re-launched operations and LCC (Low Cost Carrier), a "revised" cost conscious and aggressively pushed ancillary revenue airline model appeared. ULCC (Ultra Low-Cost Carrier) aggressively collect ancillary revenue from unbundled services allowing them to stimulate the market through even lower fares while undercutting LCCs […]
Boeing forecasts need for 2.1 million new airline personnel by 2036
Boeing projects the world"™s commercial aviation industry will require at least 2.1 million new operational personnel"”pilots, technicians and cabin crew"”by 2036. As detailed in its 2017 Pilot and Technician Outlook released July 25, Boeing estimates the global airline industry by 2036 will need 637,000 new commercial airline pilots, 648,000 new commercial airline maintenance technicians and […]
Global services market set to double over the next 20 years
The world"™s passenger aircraft fleet above 100 seats is set to more than double in the next 20 years to over 40,000 aircraft as traffic is set to grow at 4.4 percent per year, according to Airbu"™ latest Global Market Forecast 2017-2036. This forecast predicts that over the next 20 years the total industry aftermarket […]
Lufthansa"™s flight training school in Phoenix to update its fleet
Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) is scheduled to buy 25 new Cirrus SR 20 aircraft for its flight training school in Phoenix, Arizona. The total investment volume will amount to approximately EUR 11.5 million. Since the year 1972, trainee pilots at Lufthansa Aviation Training’s U.S. base have been acquiring their skills in single motor F33A Bonanza […]
China to raise mandatory retirement age for pilots
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) plans to raise the mandatory retirement age for pilots from the current 60 as part of a strategy to ease the shortage faced by Chinese airlines. The agency has yet to arrive at a decision on the exact age, but it plans to implement the change in two […]
Fights break out in Ft. Lauderdale airport after Spirit airlines cancels 9 flights
Hundreds of people’s tempers flared in a Fort Lauderdale International Airport terminal for Spirit Airlines Monday night after several flights were canceled. In footage captured by witnesses, airport security is seen moving in quickly and a number of people are arrested. It all started after nine flights were canceled. Spirit Airlines is currently negotiating with […]
