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Crossair navigates over bumpy road to recovery

Switzerland’s Crossair has frozen all hiring for an undetermined period, redoubled efforts to attract more business passengers, reduced frequencies on a nu

Air Littoral reorganizes amid labor discord

Air Littoral, one of the troubled French regional airlines once owned by SAirGroup, has found new footing following a hard-fought agreement with employee u

Russian regionals languish in persistent hard times

Despite signs of revival last year, when traffic rose by 6- to 8 percent, the Russian regional air transport system remains in dire straits.

New owners for Air Alps

Short of cash after a financially strenuous year marked by a strong rise in fuel prices, the Austrian regional AirAlps has relinquished its exclusive code-

ERJ-145 operator set to snatch Olympic Airways

The Greek government has conditionally accepted Axon Airlines’ bid to purchase a controlling stake in Olympic Airways, the country’s flag carrier.

More Job Cuts in Toronto

The sagging demand for turboprop airplanes cost 450 Bombardier workers their jobs last month, as the Canadian company handed out layoff notices to 310 prod

Fresh designs promise answer to evolving market demands

As the global economy slows and sales of current-generation regional jets reach a plateau, new designs conceived during the height of the regional-jet spen

Fresh capital sets stage for Swisswings’ recovery

The management of Swiss regional airline Swisswings (formerly Air Engiadina) has announced the successful completion of a refinancing program that provided

City center airports suffer lull as sector growth diminishes

Growth among small airports serving metropolitan cities has slowed from the vigorous rates seen in the early 1990s, according to statistics from the City C

Trains vs Planes: If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them

“The Air France flight to Brussels is leaving from Platform Two,” could soon be a commonplace announcement following the French carrier’s partnership with

Binter Mediterraneo feels pressure over CASA fleet

Consumer organizations in Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco, have lobbied for some time to get larger and “more modern” airc

Airlines face stiffer railroad competition

Despite the ERA’s furious protest against what it regards as anticompetitive government subsidies to rail operators, the darlings of the powerful European

New Athens airport now a bustling European hub

For many European Regions Airline Association (ERA) general assembly delegates, their arrival here in Athens will have been their first sight and experienc

The ‘new’ Regional builds from bottom up

Events have moved fast since the establishment last November of Regional Compagnie Aérienne Européenne, the new integrated Air France subsidiary that merge

PPM dead, ERA looks to new battlegrounds

The economic doldrums have begun to markedly slow the phenomenal growth European regional carriers have enjoyed in recent years.

Aegean anxious to end

Aegean Airlines chief operating officer Antonis Simigdalas has to rummage among framed certificates stacked by his desk to find the Greek regional’s indepe

Industry feels fallout of global terror plots

As the tragic events of September 11 unfolded in New York City and Washington, D.C., the potential effect on the regional airline industry’s bottom line pa
Safety

New AC Addresses Runway Overruns

The FAA has issued a new Advisory Circular (91-79) that addresses runway overruns during landing.

Dual flameout

MITSUBISHI MU-2, LEWISTON, IDAHO, FEB.

King Air crashes on foggy approach

KING AIR B-200, PIQUA, OHIO, AUG.

Learjet crashes on foggy takeoff

LEARJET 25, ITHACA, N.Y., AUG.

Congressional Observer: October 2007

When Congress returned from its August recess, both houses set about to debate what to do about the declining budget surplus and what to do about spending.

NBAA offers new international ops scholarship

A new international operators scholarship to benefit those who are involved with, or wish to become involved with, international business aviation operatio

HAI joins the Meigs Chorus

Helicopter Association International (HAI) president Roy Resavage has written to members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to press for an

Embraer Targets the Environment

Brazilian manufacturer Embraer has created an Environmental Strategies and Technologies Office, with plans to draft a series of new environmental protectio

FAA Tackles Aircraft Wiring

Prompted in part by NTSB recommendations arising from the July 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, the FAA has developed an enhanced airworthines

EH 101, NH 90 helos get the Nordic nod

Scandinavian countries are famous for going their own way and it seems only fitting that one of what was originally four nations participating in the Nordi

FAA delays report on stadium restrictions

The FAA has pushed back its final safety report on the Arizona Cardinals’ football stadium from September 11 until October 11, leaving the stadium builders