Consumer advocates are complaining that a regulation proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation — at the airline industry’s urging — would make it harder to penalize airlines for bad behavior and to adopt new rules that protect travelers. (www.latimes.com) 更多...
A convoy of trucks transporting A380 parts ready to be assembled traversed the French village of Lévignac, on the way to the Airbus plant near Toulouse. Since the European planemaker began building A380s in the mid-2000s, it’s been a ritual happening a few times a year, with the entire village turning out to see the giant pieces wheeled through the town, dwarfing the houses. Thursday was when the last full six-truck convoy — including three pieces of the fuselage, the tail, and the wings —… (thepointsguy.com) 更多...
Airbus is moving ahead with the development of a freighter version of the A350 aircraft, sources tell Cargo Facts. Sources say Airbus is actively pitching a freighter variant of the A350 to cargo operators, and would formally launch the new production freighter program once it secures a charter order (cargofacts.com) 更多...
Regional carrier has announced that they plan to cease operations by year's end, citing pilot shortages... 36 of their Embraer E145 aircraft will be transferred to ExpressJet and there will be no impact to Compass Airlines or GoJet (who are both owned by Trans States Holdings) (thepointsguy.com) 更多...
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation announced today the completion of the company’s Flight Test Aircraft 1 (FTA1)’s maiden flight with its first Pratt & Whitney GTF PW1200G engine assembled in Japan. (airwaysmag.com) 更多...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A high-tech self-service system which could significantly cut down on lines and reduce the time it takes fliers to check their luggage is being tested at Los Angeles International Airport beginning Wednesday. The self-service bag drop system is being tested in a pilot program at LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal. (losangeles.cbslocal.com) 更多...
A North Carolina woman who said she wanted to "stab everyone on the plane" then commit suicide was charged with assaulting a federal air marshal on board a flight that landed in Virginia's Dulles International Airport on Saturday after he attempted to stop her from entering the plane's lavatory with a lighter. (www.foxnews.com) 更多...
The rout in airline stocks continued Tuesday with American hitting a more than six-year low, leading the S&P 500 down as worries persisted about the impact of the coronavirus on travel demand. Shares of U.S. carriers were all off by more than the broader market. (www.cnbc.com) 更多...
The air transport industry is in the middle of the deepest crisis in decades, deeper than what it experienced during the fallout of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003 and 2004. (aviationweek.com) 更多...
Airlines typically try and sell pricey business class seats by advertising gourmet in-flight meals, fine wines, and luxe service. But the biggest appeal of the front cabin is a seat that can fold flat into a bed, letting you sleep in relative comfort on a long flight or a red-eye. But if Air New Zealand has its way, the lie-flat bed will finally find its way to coach. The airline unveiled a new prototype sleeping pod on Tuesday, which it said presented an option for putting beds in the economy… (www.businessinsider.com) 更多...
Three Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced sweeping legislation to reform how new airplanes are certified and overseen by U.S. regulators after two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes killed 346 people. (uk.reuters.com) 更多...
Transport Canada believed the Boeing 737 Max was safe when the government approved the new plane three years ago, but officials did not closely examine the aircraft’s flawed software before clearing it to fly. (beta.theglobeandmail.com) 更多...
