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January 16, 2019

American Airlines' Flight Attendant Union Honors US Airways Flight 1549

'Miracle On The Hudson' Happened Ten Years Ago

Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of the "Miracle on the Hudson." To date, this remains the most successful ditching in aviation history. On January 15, 2009, Captain “Sully” Sullenberger and First Officer Jeffrey Skiles made an emergency water landing on the Hudson River after multiple bird strikes into both engines.

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Air Canada Announces Improvements To Capacity Purchase Agreement With Jazz

Makes Equity Investment Of $97.26 Million In Chorus

Air Canada has announced an agreement to amend and extend the Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) with Jazz Aviation LP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chorus Aviation Inc., under which Jazz currently operates certain regional Air Canada Express flights. The amendments should provide long term stability for Chorus, reaffirming Jazz as Air Canada's most significant Express carrier well into the future, as well as enabling growth on Chorus' leasing business through Air Canada's equity investment and the predictability of Jazz's cashflow from CPA operations until 2035. 

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VSE Aviation Acquires 1st Choice Aerospace

Expands MRO Services For Commercial Aircraft

VSE Aviation, a subsidiary of VSE Corporation (VSE), has acquired 1st Choice Aerospace, two privately owned aviation supply chain management companies with operations in Florida and Kentucky that provide component maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services and products for new generation and legacy commercial aircraft families.

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Norwegian Gets Connected With Collins Aerospace

First CabinConnect-Equipped 787-9 Dreamliner Takes Flight

Collins Aerospace is helping Norwegian passengers experience free and premium Wi-Fi onboard Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and 737 MAX long-haul flights with its CabinConnect high speed, broadband connectivity solution. The new service, which will debut on the majority of Norwegian’s transatlantic flights, enables passengers to stream video and music content, browse the web, access social media, voice and messaging services over the Inmarsat Global Xpress (GX) satellite network, the world’s first and only globally available high-speed broadband network.

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Pilot Caught On Video Trying To Get Through Cockpit Window

Reason For Action Is Unclear

A video is making the rounds on social media of a pilot trying to squeeze into a cockpit window of an airplane at Heathrow Airport, leading some to joke that he had forgotten his keys.

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Flybe To Be Purchased By Airline Consortium

Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Group And Cyrus Capital Partners Form Connect Airways

The Boards of Flybe and Connect Airways, a company bringing together Virgin Atlantic Limited, Stobart Group and Cyrus Capital, reached agreement on the terms of a recommended cash offer for Flybe. Following which Connect Airways will acquire the entire issued, and to be issued, share capital of Flybe. Stobart Group will contribute Stobart Air and Propius, Stobart’s aircraft leasing business into Connect Airways.

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Air France Plans To Retire 'Joon' Brand

'Airline For Millennials' Will Be Folded Back Into The Mainline Carrier

Air France appears to be ending its experiment with Joon, a carrier that was focused on millennials. In a statement released by Air France, the airline said that after much discussion with employees and customers alike, and in consultation with the unions, it would launch a project studying the future of the Joon brand and the integration of Joon employees and aircraft into Air France.

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SWA, Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreement For Material Specialist Employees

Will Increase Pay Over Five-Year Term Of The Pact

Southwest Airlines and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the union that represents Southwest's Material Specialists, have reached a tentative agreement.

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