SAS Scandinavian Airlines has renegotiated leases for 36 aircraft with 10 lessors in an effort to cut costs and move ahead with its SAS FORWARD restructuring plan.
Both all-Boeing operators, Solaseed and Air Do have merged to combine the airlines’ aircraft maintenance and customer information and will conduct joint marketing campaigns.
The implementation of Free Route Airspace should be completed by 2024, about a year later than planned, after delays linked to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Eurocontrol’s Director General Eamonn Brennan said.
New FAA guidance on both training and operational aspects of managing an aircraft's flight path is expected to be out by yearend, the agency told ICAO delegates in an update.
The country was unable to win a majority from 170 voting nations at the 41st ICAO Assembly, which meets in Montreal every three years and runs through Oct. 7
Acting FAA Administrator Billy Nolen on Oct. 4 signed a final rule that extends the minimum rest period for flight attendants to 10 consecutive hours between shifts, saying the change “corrects a historical inequity.”
GKN Aerospace, the British aerostructures giant undergoing a business overhaul under private ownership, has acquired Sweden’s Permanova Lasersystem, an existing supplier that specializes in laser welding and laser metal deposition systems.
As regional carriers struggle to maintain their networks amid myriad challenges, ULCCs are increasingly filling their schedules with smaller destinations—a trend that is expected to continue, consultancy Swelbar-Zhong said.
KLM and its LCC subsidiary Transavia have urged international harmonization to ensure that unruly passengers removed from one airline’s flights should not be able to circumvent the ban by flying on another carrier.
The push to create the National Center for the Advancement of Aviation comes as lawmakers and aviation stakeholders look for new ways to grow the country’s pilot pipeline.
