Speaking with ATW on the eve of the IATA AGM in Miami, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Director General Andrew Herdman said that 2014 had been “very tough” for the region, with the majors and low-cost carriers struggling alike.
Müller told Aviation Week at the International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting (IATA AGM) in Miami that he expects major progress in that regard within the next five years, as countries continue to liberalize their air service agreements and allow their national carriers to combine forces.
Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr suggests that the airline industry should take a close look at how WTO has been dealing with trade disputes in other industries and try to learn from those mechanisms.
LOT—which hosts the next Star Alliance board meeting in Warsaw June 22-24—hopes to use that opportunity to explore greater partnership opportunities with its fellow Star members.
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will deliver a keynote address during the opening session of the at the IATA AGM in Miami Monday, raising the possibility that the ongoing dispute between the three major US carriers and the three largest Gulf airlines could be discussed even though it is not on the AGM agenda.
Tony Tyler could be looking ahead at a relatively relaxed annual general assembly. The location in Miami Beach is nice; there are no major decisions to be made by the board; and the industry is doing reasonably well. And the one big policy issue that the industry will have to deal with—the introduction of a global emissions trading system to be organized by ICAO—is only really on the agenda for next year. In other words: “It is business as usual,” Tyler says.
The Gulf carrier issue is not on the IATA meeting agenda for a simple reason of protocol: The association represents airlines from both increasingly hostile camps and cannot take a stance without hurting the interests of important members.
In early May, Cargolux joined the growing list of major passenger and freight carriers refusing to transport lithium-ion batteries. The current risk to continue flying such shipments is “not acceptable,” Europe’s largest freighter airline says.
Pat Durkin, VP of Sales and Marketing of TE Wire & Cable, discusses a few ways to improve composite curing quality for the MRO aviation industry at the MRO Americas exhibition in Miami.
Malcom Hysler, creator of ENCANSOL, discusses the new emergency spill containment, control and remediation solidifier product at the Santex Corporation booth at MRO Americas
This anonymously posted astonishing video reveals how close the Falcon 9 stage came to completing a successful landing and shows that right up unto the last second the cold gas reaction control system was attempting to correct the landing trajectory.
Presented by Snap-On, the annual Aerospace Maintenance Competition was held for the first time at MRO Americas Convention. Here are hyperlapse videos of the competitors in action at the convention.
Snap-on Industrial developed the Advanced Technology Lab to help demonstrate and show some of the key product and system innovations available to customer.
