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All News

July 16, 2008

NATCA Provides Counterpoint To FAA's Fuel Tank Ruling

Says DOT Ignored Union's Call For Even Tougher Standards

FAA Aircraft Certification Engineers, represented by the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), say they're pleased which much of the DOT's announcement Wednesday of a final rule requiring fire suppression technology to be installed in the center fuel tanks of airliners flying over the US.

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DOT Issues Final Rule On Fuel Tank Fire Suppression Systems

All New Planes Must Include Systems Within 2 Years

ANN REALTIME UPDATE 07.16.08 1300 EDT: Confirming earlier reports, on Wednesday the Department of Transportation issued a mandate requiring all new aircraft to include technology designed to significantly reduce the risk of center fuel tank fires within two years. In addition, passenger aircraft built after 1991 must be retrofitted with technology designed to keep center fuel tanks from catching fire.

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Delta Names Its Post-Merger Leadership Team

NWA To Be Operated As Delta Subsidiary

Delta Air Lines announced Tuesday to its employees the senior team responsible for leading the company after the closing of its merger with Northwest Airlines. As expected, the new airline will be led by Delta CEO Richard Anderson -- an 18-year industry veteran, and former CEO of Northwest. The team will be comprised of operational, corporate and strategic leaders selected from both companies.

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BTS Stats Show May '08 Airline Employment Up 0.8 Percent

Latest -- And Possibly Last -- In Series Of Ever-Smaller Increases

It's still an increase... but the trend is clearly pointing down. US scheduled passenger airlines employed 0.8 percent more workers in May 2008 than in May 2007, the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported Tuesday. That's the 16th consecutive increase in full-time equivalent employee (FTE) levels for the scheduled passenger carriers from the same month of the previous year... but the smallest year-to-year increase since March 2007.

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Farnborough '08: Bombardier, SAC Sign Contract For CSeries Center Fuselages

Chinese Company Gains Work On New Airliner Program

Bombardier Aerospace signed a contract this week in Farnborough with the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC), a subsidiary of the state-owned aviation industrial entity China Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC I), to supply the center fuselage on the newly-launched Bombardier CSeries.

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'This Excessive Air Fare Is Brought To You By...'

Airlines To Print Ads On Boarding Passes

The bar setting the level airlines are willing to stoop to in order to generate revenue keeps getting lower. Six US airlines will soon include advertisements on boarding passes customers print out at home, according to USA Today.

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go! Slaps First Bag Surcharge On Checked Luggage

Says New Fee Gives Pax "More Cost-Saving Options"

Mesa's Air Group's money-losing go! Airlines announced this week that starting August 10, 2008 it will begin charging a first-checked-bag service charge of $10 on all of its interisland flights, to offset the increases in the cost of fuel and, to quote a Mesa release, "to give go! passengers more cost-saving options."

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Farnborough '08: Boeing's Shanahan Says 787 Is Making Progress

Dreamliner Production Nightmares May Be Coming To An End

Boeing is making steady progress on getting the 787 Dreamliner global production system up and running. That's the message Pat Shanahan, vice president and general manager of the 787 program, had during an update on the program's progress this week at the Farnborough International Airshow.

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Alteon To Place 787 Training Center In Miami

Will Support US And Latin American Airlines

Alteon Training announced this week it will place a Boeing 787 training suite, including a full-flight simulator, at its training center in Miami, FL. The Miami training center will be ready for training in March 2010 to meet the training requirements of airlines based in Latin America and the United States.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.16.08)

"The 787 Dreamliner is a fantastic airplane -- one that is already changing our industry, meeting customers' needs, and will soon be changing passengers' expectations about flight."

Source: Pat Shanahan, vice president and general manager of the 787 program at Boeing. Shanahan told attendees at Farnborough that Boeing is making steady progress on getting the 787 Dreamliner global production system up and running. Notably, Shanahan said the dedicated global partner network -- some aspects of which have caused headaches during the plane's long gestation, leading to three delays -- is one of the many aspects of the 787 that are a major leap forward for the program.

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