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Scope resolution central to UA-CAL integration

The October 1 merger of United and Continental Airlines has exhumed an old bone of contention between mainline pilots and their management that stands to p

December 28, 2010

Swiss regionals consolidate

Swiss regional airline Baboo, based in Geneva, and Darwin Airline, headquartered at Lugano Airport in southern Switzerland, an-nounced in late November tha

December 28, 2010

Brazil’s Azul maintains a steep growth trajectory

Azul Linhas Aereos, Brazil’s newest discount airline, registered a 79.71-percent load factor and carried 2.2 million passengers last year, its first full y

December 28, 2010

UTAir to Order Superjets

Russia’s UTAir plans to acquire as many as 24 Sukhoi Superjet 100-95s as replacements for its aged Tupolev Tu-134s, Sukhoi general director Mikhail Pogosya

December 28, 2010

GAO: NextGen costs skyrocket

When Congress in 2003 signed off on the Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act–better known as Vision 100–it officially set in motion the Next Generation

ATC

December 23, 2010

Boeing Plans another 777 Rate Hike

Boeing plans to raise its production rate for the 777 program to 8.3 airplanes per month, or 100 airplanes a year, starting in the first quarter of 2013, t

Engines

December 20, 2010

Southwest Lays Plans for Larger 737s

Southwest Airlines expects to take delivery of its first Boeing 737-800 in March 2012, the company’s chairman, president and CEO, Gary Kelly, revealed duri

Aircraft

December 15, 2010

Airbus Raises Expectations in Latest Forecast

Airbus now projects that the airline industry will need almost 26,000 new passenger and freighter aircraft valued at $3.2 trillion between 2010 and 2029, a

December 14, 2010

French Court “Criminalizes” Concorde Accident

Unfazed by pressure from various aviation alphabet groups concerned about the “criminalization” of aircraft accidents, a French court this week found a Con

December 10, 2010

Cost of Qantas A380 Groundings Mounts

Some five weeks after an uncontained engine failure forced one of Qantas’s six Rolls-Royce Trent 900-powered A380s to make an emergency landing at Singapor

December 10, 2010

Industry Awaits Word on Seventh 787 Delay

Boeing’s conclusion that a short circuit or electrical arc caused by foreign debris in a P100 power distribution panel led to the November 9 fire aboard th

December 10, 2010

Search for Doomed Air France Airbus A330 to Resume

The effort to find out what happened to Air France Flight 447 on June 1, 2009 seemed all but over in France, when the government announced the launch of a

December 10, 2010

GAO Warns NextGen Costs Could Quadruple

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to the House Transportation and Infrastructure

ATC

December 9, 2010

Airbus Starts Fabricating First Fuselage Barrel for the A350 XWB

Airbus has begun fabricating the first carbon fiber barrel for the A350 XWB fuselage at its Advanced Composites Center in Illescas, Spain, the company anno

December 7, 2010

Aeromexico to Restore Delta Code Share as FAA Re-instates Mexico’s Category 1 Status

In reaction to last week’s move by the U.S.

December 6, 2010

Paris court rules Continental Airlines 'criminally responsible' for 2000 crash of Air France Concorde

A Paris court ruled yesterday that Continental Airlines was "criminally responsible" for the crash of the Air France Concorde in July 2000, which killed 11

Aircraft

December 6, 2010