by Dino D'Amore | Feb 14, 2013 | Airline, Cargo, Editorial Comment, Finance, Insurance, Leasing, Legal, Maintenance, Parts, People, Regulatory, Technology, Zone: Americas, Zone: Asia/Pacific, Zone: Europe, Zone: Middle East/Africa
Summer 2013 will see talks begin between the EU and the United States on producing a free-trade agreement that would give birth to the largest free trade zone on the planet, significant enough to add 0.5% or €86bn to overall EU GDP and 0.4% or €65bn to the US economy...
by Dino D'Amore | Feb 14, 2013 | Maintenance
United Airlines and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union have reached tentative agreements on new contracts covering 32,500 workers. The agreements provide retroactive wage increases, signing bonuses, traditional pension increases...
by Dino D'Amore | Feb 14, 2013 | Maintenance
The US Federal Aviation Administration has extended the original February 11 comment period for comments on its proposed air carrier contract maintenance requirements rules to March 13. The proposed rules would change the maintenance regulations for domestic, flag and...
by Dino D'Amore | Feb 14, 2013 | Maintenance
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft has won a contract for its rate-per-flying-hour aircraft spares support service from Eastern Airways, which covers a three-year support deal for the airline’s fleet of 16 Jetstream 41 turboprop airliners. Eastern Airways operates over 800...
by Dino D'Amore | Feb 14, 2013 | Maintenance
A small AN-24 aircraft carrying 45 passengers skidded past the landing strip and overturned in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Wednesday. Four people were killed, two were injured and the fate of two others remains unknown. The aircraft, which had departed...
