Aero-News Network: The aviation and aerospace world's daily/real-time news and information service

FAA Record of Decision Approves O’Hare Modernization

City of Chicago Can Begin Work to Improve Airport Safety and Capacity

The FAA has issued its Record of Decision (ROD) that determines the City of Chicago’s O’Hare Modernization Program and Airport Layout Plan is the best alternative to improve safety, increase capacity and reduce delays with the least environmental impact.

AAL Labor Groups To Congress: 'Please Recognize Our Efforts!'

Senate Continues To Move Ahead With Reform Legislation

As the US Senate moves forward with comprehensive pension reform, the three unions at American Airlines urged Congress to ensure companies that continue to fulfill their pension funding obligations are not disadvantaged by the final legislation. Congress has been considering a special airline-specific provision that would permit carriers that have frozen their defined-benefit plans to extend the amortization period for full funding to 14 years, and it also includes the ability to use a "reasonable interest rate" while doing so.

Aero-News Alert: TransMeridian Airlines Shuts Down All Ops

Will File for Protection Under Section 7 of the US Bankruptcy Code

TransMeridian Airlines has announced the shut down of all flight operations effective immediately. The Atlanta based supplemental carrier was unsuccessful in negotiations to restructure its debt.

NWA Wants More Pilot Concessions

ALPA: That's "Extreme"

Northwest Airlines wants more out of its pilots -- a total of $358 million in annual concessions. That's a request pilots call "extreme."

AD: BAE Systems

AD NUMBER: 2005-19-03 MANUFACTURER: BAE Systems (CORRECTION) SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-03 SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD), which applies to all BAe Systems (Operations) Limited Model ATP airplanes.

AD: Aerospatiale

AD NUMBER: 2005-19-05 MANUFACTURER: Aerospatiale (CORRECTION) SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-05 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Aerospatiale Model ATR42-500 airplanes.

AD: Boeing

AD NUMBER: 2005-19-06 MANUFACTURER: Boeing (CORRECTION) SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-06 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Boeing Model 747-100, 747-100B, 747-100B SUD, 747-200B, 747-200C, 747-200F, 747-300, 747SR, and 747SP series airplanes.

AD: Airbus

AD NUMBER: 2005-19-04 MANUFACTURER: Airbus (CORRECTION) SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-19-04 SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for certain Airbus Model A340-200 and -300 series airplanes. This AD requires revising the airplane flight manual to incorporate new procedures for the flightcrew to follow to correct miscalculation of the takeoff and accelerating or stopping distance of the airplane during a ferry flight under certain conditions.

A Frighteningly Familiar Story

Mechanics Find Ungreased Jackscrew On Alaska Airlines MD-83

It was an eerily familiar discovery. Six years after Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific -- a crash blamed on the failure to properly lubricate the MD-83's horizontal stabilizer jackscrew, maintenance crews in Seattle found another unlubricated jackscrew on another Alaska Air MD-83.

Indian Airlines Cleared For Big Airbus Purchase

43 Aircraft In The Pipeline

An Indian cabinet committee Thursday approved Indian Airlines' purchase of 43 Airbus aircraft -- a mix of A319s, A320s and A321s. The first of the deliveries will come in the second half of next year, according to news reports from New Delhi.