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November 14, 2006

Embraer Hits Ten Million Flight Hours For ERJ-145 Fleet

A Million Hours Per Year In Service

Brazilian planemaker Embraer announced a significant milestone Tuesday for its ERJ-145 regional jet platform. After a decade in service, the worldwide ERJ-145 fleet has reached ten million flight-hours -- with the total number of cycles (take-off and landing procedures) at around 8.5 million.

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EasyJet Orders 52 More A319s, Options On 75 More

Is The Tide Turning For Airbus?

It's happened before... after being all-but-locked out of the 2006 sales race to archrival Boeing, Airbus seems to be slowly gaining back ground.

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Skybus Goes With Wingspeed For Fleet Communications Support

Skybus Airlines, an upcoming low-fare airline based in Columbus, OH, has selected Wingspeed Corporation's XLLink Flight Information Architecture (XFIA) to manage automated paperless operations, voice and messaging on its fleet of Airbus A319 aircraft.

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Airline Pilot Hiring Stayed Strong Through October

There's Still Some Hiring Going On!

The folks at AIR, Inc., tell ANN that airlines hired 697 pilots in October, bringing the year-to-date total to 7,170. The Major carriers had the highest hiring volume in October hiring 265 pilots, followed by the Nationals with 203, and the Non-Jet Operators finished in third hiring 95 pilots for the month. 

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Kuwaiti Plane Shooed Away From Indian No-Fly Zone

They Have TFRs In India?

Given all the media attention surrounding planes that have accidentally meandered into no-fly zones over the past several years in the US... it's almost reassuring, in a way, to hear American pilots aren't the only ones that have to deal with the problem.

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Boeing Identifies KLM Order For Six NextGen 737s

Carrier Also Switches 777 Order

Boeing confirmed Monday that KLM Royal Dutch Airlines placed several orders earlier this year for a total of six Boeing Next-Generation 737s.

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Horizon Air Selects XM WX Satellite Weather Service

XM WX Satellite Weather graphical weather service has been selected by Horizon Air as the in-flight weather datalink service to its current fleet of 68 aircraft as well as future deliveries. XM WX Satellite Weather will be incorporated into Horizon Air's new Electronic Flight Bag Communication and Data Management System, an electronic information management device that helps flight crews perform flight management tasks more easily and efficiently.

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Quintuple Boeing Deliveries for Angola's TAAG

Boeing Delivers Five Commercial Jets to TAAG Angola Airlines

This had to be THE trip for Carolyn Corvi... As Boeing's Commercial Airplanes Vice President of Airplane Production, Corvi led a 38-member company delegation on a 16-hour and 47-minute record-setting 777-200ER delivery flight of 8,060 nautical miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle that arrived Saturday, Nov. 11, in Luanda, Angola.

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