In a rousing 15 June 2023 letter to the U.S. Senate et al., ALPA president Captain Jason Ambrosi argued persuasively that the proposed Thune Enhanced Qualification Program (EQP) Amendment to the 2023 FAA Reauthorization Bill gravely and incontrovertibly threatens aviation safety.
NASA and Boeing set forth on Monday, 12 June 2023, that the aircraft to be produced through the space agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project has been designated the X-66A by the U.S. Air Force. By dint of the new X-plane, NASA and Boeing seek to inform the design of a new generation of more sustainable narrow-body commercial aircraft—the veritable workhorses of the global airline industry.
Sky Alps, the Italian airline operating flights from Bolzano Airport (BZO) in Northern Italy’s autonomous South Tyrol province, has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Sandpoint, Idaho-based Tamarack Aerospace Group to partner in the development of a highly modified DeHavilland Q400 regional aircraft featuring Tamarack’s Eco-SMARTWING technology.
On 12 June 2023, the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA); the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO; and Transport Workers Union of America jointly submitted to Congress a letter pertaining to the legislative body’s mark-up of 2023’s FAA Reauthorization Act. Subject letter read ...
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