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HAI urges FAA to step up Gulf safety initiative
October 23, 2006, 12:04 PM
October 2005

The Helicopter Association International (HAI) has appealed to FAA Administrator Marion Blakey to further collaborate with the industry to improve communications and weather information for flight operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Civil helicopters provide support to the Gulf Coast
October 23, 2006, 11:49 AM
October 2005

The TV news might have focused on the contributions of military rotary-wing aircraft– notably hoist-fitted UH-60 Black Hawks from the National Guard and Jayhawks from the U.S.

ERA warns of EASA's cash crunch
October 23, 2006, 11:37 AM
ERA 2005

Two years on from the creation of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the ERA remains worried about that new agency’s cash flow problems.

ERA Takes Direct Role in Sesame Project
October 23, 2006, 11:35 AM
ERA 2005

The European Regions Airline Association (ERA) will help manage the two-year definition phase of the Sesame Single European Sky implementation program as part of a consortium of companies and industry associations selected as preferred bidder by Eurocontrol.

Regional Traffic Recovery Climbs Higher
October 23, 2006, 11:34 AM
ERA 2005

Traffic recovery continued to accelerate during the first half of the year, according o the latest statistics from the ERA.

Wrong Fuel Gauge in Doomed ATR
October 23, 2006, 11:32 AM
ERA 2005

Accident investigators have determined that Tunisian mechanics replaced a faulty fuel gauge in the ATR 72 that crashed off the northeast coast of Sicily on August 6 with the wrong model, a mistake that apparently led the doomed airplane’s pilots to upload less fuel than they needed to complete t

SAS Commuter gone in name, but not in effect
October 23, 2006, 11:30 AM
ERA 2005

As the industry gathers in Gothenburg for this year’s general assembly, the ERA will certainly lament the absence of one of its stalwart airline members from Scandinavia–even if its passengers have taken little notice.

New Regional Aircraft: East plays catch-up in race for RJ prominence
October 23, 2006, 11:17 AM
ERA 2005

Antonov: An-148–The only aircraft program ever launched in the former Soviet Union without direct public funding continues its march toward CIS AP-25 certification, scheduled for next April.

Last turboprop at Swiss marks end of an era
October 23, 2006, 11:09 AM
ERA 2005

The company that launched the Saab 340 into prominence in Europe will soon bow out of the turboprop flying business altogether, when Swiss International Airlines bids adieu to the last of its 50-seat Saab 2000s this month and embarks on a restructuring of its regional jet fleet that will also ba

Regional upstarts lead Swiss recovery
October 23, 2006, 11:07 AM
ERA 2005

Switzerland’s long ambulatory regional airline business finally appears headed toward recovery, having registered an increase in passenger boardings for the first time in several years during this year’s first semester.

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