AirGuide Business back issues from February 2008:
Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 NASA aims to launch Atlantis next week. NASA officials said a backup system will cool Atlantis if the shuttle's Freon hose fails. They also noted that the shuttle's crew would not be threatened even if the hose fails. NASA hopes to launch the shuttle next week. Feb ...
Aerospace & Defense News - Defense.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 The US Navy on Thursday tested the world's most powerful electromagnetic railgun. The goal of the project is to develop a weapon capable of hitting a target more than 200 nautical miles away with a non-explosive slug. Experts say the railgun would allow warships to ...
Aerospace & Defense News - Technology.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 The US Navy on Thursday tested the world's most powerful electromagnetic railgun. The goal of the project is to develop a weapon capable of hitting a target more than 200 nautical miles away with a non-explosive slug. Experts say the railgun would allow warships to ...
Air Cargo News.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Airbus, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers Airbus said MatlinPatterson Global Advisers placed an order for six Airbus A330-200 freighters for placement with companies in its portfolio such as Varig Logistica and Global Aero Logistics (holding company of ATA ...
Aircraft News - Africa / Middle East.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Rolls-Royce, Oman Air, Airbus Rolls-Royce reached a deal with Oman Air for Trent 700 engines to power its five purchased and two leased Airbus A330s that begin delivery in 2009. Value of the contract, which includes a TotalCare package, is $460 million at ...
Aircraft News - Asia / Pacific.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 AirAsia, Kolej TAFE Seremban Kolej TAFE Seremban signed an MOA with AirAsia to support maintenance engineering training at AirAsia Academy. Program includes EASA Part 66 module 1-17 training for DCA certification. Agreement offers TAFE's workshop ...
Aircraft News - Europe.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Innovative system uses magnetic field to track planes. European scientists have developed a system for locating aircraft at airports based on monitoring fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field. Scientists say the system relies on inexpensive sensors that monitor ...
Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 LAB Airlines , Boeing Bolivian LAB Airlines plane crash-lands, all survive. A plane carrying more than 150 people crash-landed in a bog in eastern Bolivia on Friday after fierce storms turned it away from its destination and it tried to reach another ...
Aircraft News - North America.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Pilot union says cockpits need secondary barriers. A pilots union in Canada supports installing secondary gates in cockpits. The union says the gate would keep the cockpit secure when pilots leave to get food or take a break. Canadian authorities have not acted on ...
Aircraft Finance & Leasing News - Asia / Pacific.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 All Nippon Airways, Boeing All Nippon Airways, Japan's second-largest airline, said it would spend about JPY600 billion yen (USD$5.7 billion) to buy about 60 new fuel-efficient planes from Boeing. ANA will buy the new planes over the next four years to ...
Aircraft Finance & Leasing News - Europe.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Aeroflot, GECAS, Airbus Aeroflot took delivery of its 14th Airbus A320 this month, on lease from GECAS. It expects 10 more this year and now operates 11 A319s, 14 A320s and 10 A321s. It carried 633,800 passengers in December, up 12.2% from the year-ago ...
Aircraft Finance & Leasing News - North America.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Airbus, MatlinPatterson Global Advisers Airbus said MatlinPatterson Global Advisers placed an order for six Airbus A330-200 freighters for placement with companies in its portfolio such as Varig Logistica and Global Aero Logistics (holding company of ATA ...
Aircraft Supplier & MRO News.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 AirAsia, Kolej TAFE Seremban Kolej TAFE Seremban signed an MOA with AirAsia to support maintenance engineering training at AirAsia Academy. Program includes EASA Part 66 module 1-17 training for DCA certification. Agreement offers TAFE's workshop ...
Company Watch - American Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 American Airlines Pilots Rebuffed. Federal mediators have rejected a union request to referee the labor contract talks between American Airlines and its pilots. The union said late Wednesday that it got written notice of the decision from the National Mediation ...
Company Watch - Airbus.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Aeroflot took delivery of its 14th Airbus A320 this month, on lease from GECAS. It expects 10 more this year and now operates 11 A319s, 14 A320s and 10 A321s. It carried 633,800 passengers in December, up 12.2% from the year-ago month. Traffic rose 8.1% to 1.92 ...
Company Watch - Air Canada.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Air Canada pilot removed from plane, update. The co-pilot at the controls of the Air Canada Boeing 767-300 passenger jet bound for London Heathrow was forcibly removed from the cockpit and bound hand and foot after he began asking for God 30,000 feet over the ...
Company Watch - Aeroflot.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Aeroflot took delivery of its 14th Airbus A320 this month, on lease from GECAS. It expects 10 more this year and now operates 11 A319s, 14 A320s and 10 A321s. It carried 633,800 passengers in December, up 12.2% from the year-ago month. Traffic rose 8.1% to 1.92 ...
Company Watch - Air France.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Air France unveiled the new cabin on its narrowbody fleet featuring "a host of aesthetic and practical new features." It will take delivery of seven Airbus A320 family aircraft featuring the new cabin through April. The first, an A321, went into service last Friday ....
Company Watch - Alaska Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Alaska Air Group is not interested in participating in the consolidation rumored to be facing the US commercial aviation industry. "For us, the best future appears to be to remain independent," AAG Chairman Bill Ayer told The News Tribune. Jan 31, 2008 ...
Company Watch - Air New Zealand.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Air New Zealand will launch twice-weekly Auckland-Beijing on July 18 with a 777-200ER. Jan 31, 2008 Air New Zealand gets award for service. An aviation publication has awarded Air New Zealand for having the world's best passenger service. Air Transport ...
Company Watch - AirTran Airways.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 AirTran Airways announced an expansion of its Milwaukee service to feature new seasonal flights to Los Angeles (twice-daily from May 6), Seattle (daily from May 6), San Francisco (daily from May 6), Boston (twice-daily from May 21) and San Diego (daily from May 21) ....
Company Watch - Bombardier.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Bombardier Sees No Slowdown In Business Jet Orders. Bombardier Aerospace does not see signs of slowing demand for business jets, despite worries that a US recession could hit corporate orders, the company's president said on Tuesday. Pierre Beaudoin, who takes over ...
Company Watch - Boeing.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Alaska Airlines to check Boeing 737-400s for wing-flap problems. Recent emergency landings have prompted Alaska Airlines to inspect all 40 of its Boeing 737-400s for possible wing-flap problems. The airline said it will not ground the planes. Jan 29, 2008 ...
Company Watch - China Eastern Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 China Eastern Airlines signed an aircraft purchase agreement with Boeing for 30 737NGs yesterday in Shanghai, according to a statement released by the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Boeing did not acknowledge the specifics of the order, saying only that CEA "announced the ...
Company Watch - Continental Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Continental Airlines reported a January consolidated (mainline plus regional) load factor of 76.8 percent, 0.5 points above the January 2007 consolidated load factor. The carrier reported a mainline load factor of 77.4 percent, 0.6 points above the January 2007 ...
Company Watch - Cebu Pacific.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Cebu Pacific To Expand Despite Shelving IPO. Philippines budget airline Cebu Pacific said on Wednesday it will stick to its expansion plans, although it has no immediate plans to resurrect a USD$309 million initial public offering. Jan 30, 2008 Cebu ...
Company Watch - China Southern Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 China Southern Airlines Vice MD Xu Jiezhong said the deal "is just a start in stake cooperation between China Southern and Air France." The SkyTeam partners already are codesharing and have linked certain ground handling operations. In addition, China Southern ...
Company Watch - Delta Air Lines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Delta Air Lines flew 9.72 billion system RPMs in December, up 3% over the year-ago month. Capacity rose 3.1% to 12.5 billion ASMs and load factor dipped 0.1 point to 77.7%. Jan 30, 2008 Delta Air Lines has held exploratory discussions with United and ...
Company Watch - General Dynamics.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Czech Republic restarts negotiations with General Dynamics. The Czech Republic is renewing contract talks with General Dynamics for a possible purchase of armored personnel carriers. The government terminated an earlier deal worth $1.4 billion for 199 carriers. Jan ...
Company Watch - GOL Linhas Aereas.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes said its Varig subsidiary will adjust its network in an "aim at improving efficiency and the quality of services." Domestic flights will be reconfigured with business travelers in mind and making use of a policy reinstating connections ...
Company Watch - Hilton Hotels.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Conrad expands in China. Hilton Hotels Corporation has signed a management agreement with China Merchants Property Development Ltd to open Conrad Beijing in one of the capital s newest luxury developments in late 2010. The 300-room hotel will be in the city s ...
Company Watch - Japan Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Japan Airlines expands domestic first class. Japan Airlines will start taking reservations on February 1 for the first class cabin it is introducing on the Tokyo-Fukuoka route from 1 April. The new service will be available on two return daily flights morning and ...
Company Watch - Jet Airways.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Jet Airways, India's sole profitable major carrier, yesterday reported a INR911 million ($23.1 million) loss for the fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31, reversed from a profit of INR400 million in the year-ago period, ending a streak of four consecutive positive ...
Company Watch - JetBlue Airways.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 JetBlue Airways will start daily Fort Lauderdale-Aguadilla Feb. 15 aboard Airbus A320s. It launched daily flights to Fort Myers from Buffalo and White Plains scheduled to operate until April 30 aboard Embraer E-190s. Feb 3, 2008 JetBlue Adds ...
Company Watch - LAB Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Bolivian LAB Airlines plane crash-lands, all survive. A plane carrying more than 150 people crash-landed in a bog in eastern Bolivia on Friday after fierce storms turned it away from its destination and it tried to reach another airport hundreds of miles away, ...
Company Watch - Lufthansa.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Lufthansa will launch weekly Frankfurt-Luanda on April 1 aboard an Airbus A340-300. Jan 31, 2008 Lufthansa reached an 18-month deal with the Vereinigung Cockpit union representing approximately 4,400 Lufthansa pilots that will include a 2.5% pay increase ...
Company Watch - Lockheed Martin.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Lockheed will shed jobs as F-35 transitions to production. Lockheed Martin said it will cut about 850 positions at its Fort Worth plant where it is developing the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter. The program is moving from the design phase into production and ...
Company Watch - Malaysia Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Malaysia Airlines flew 3.55 billion RPKs in December, down 0.9% from the year-ago month. Capacity fell 2.3% to 4.8 billion ASKs, lifting load factor 1.1 points to 73.9%. Jan 31, 2008 Malaysia Air Sees USD$464 Mln Profit By 2012. State-controlled Malaysia ...
Company Watch - Midwest Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Midwest Airlines and Midwest Connect flew 350.1 million RPMs in December, a 4.3% rise from the year ago month. Capacity was up 9.6% to 516.9 million ASMs, lowering load factor 3.5 points to 67.7%. Jan 30, 2008 Midwest Airlines parent Midwest Air Group ...
Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Northrop robots to work security at Super Bowl. Robots produced by Northrop Grumman Remotec subsidiary will be used to bolster security during the Super Bowl on Sunday, and Northrop will be providing technical support, repairs and service, the company said Friday. ...
Company Watch - Northwest Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Delta, Northwest merger would create global carrier. A potential merger of Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines could mean more international flights departing from Atlanta and a larger role for airports in Salt Lake City, Detroit and Minneapolis. A combined ...
Company Watch - Qantas Airways.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Qantas Airways will increase Melbourne-Hong Kong service to 10-times-weekly from daily from April 1 aboard an Airbus A330-300. Twice-weekly Melbourne-Shanghai begins March 11. It will increase weekly Sydney-Canberra frequencies by 15 to 157 in March and ...
Company Watch - Raytheon.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Raytheon Team GOES-R. The next generation of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite System will launch in 2014 and will take environmental data collection, analysis and weather forecasting to new heights of efficiency and effectiveness. Feb 3, 2008 ...
Company Watch - Rolls-Royce.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Gas-to-liquid fuel used in Airbus flight. GTL may be alternative energy source in future. Airbus tested gas-to-liquid fuels Friday on a superjumbo Airbus A380 in the first flight of a commercial aircraft using the potential alternative to regular jet fuel. Airbus ...
Company Watch - Ryanair.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Ryanair offers to settle over Sarkozy ad. Irish airline Ryanair said on Thursday it was willing to make 5,000 euros (3,727 pound) charitable donations for both French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his friend Carla Bruni over an advertisement featuring her daydreaming ...
Company Watch - Singapore Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Earnings at Singapore Airlines beat expectations. Singapore Airlines beat market expectations Friday by reporting a 51 percent rise in quarterly operating profit, lifted by strong demand in global travel and higher ticket prices. But the airline also warned of an ...
Company Watch - Southwest Airlines.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Consolidation will create opportunities for Southwest, CEO says. Consolidation in the airline industry will provide an opportunity for Southwest Airlines, regardless of whether the carrier merges with another airline, CEO Gary Kelly said. "We have enough exposure to ...
Company Watch - UPS.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 UPS reported a 2007 net profit of $447 million, down 89.4% from $4.2 billion in 2006 owing mainly to a $6.1 billion pension payment related to a new labor contract agreed to in the fourth quarter with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters representing 45,000 of ...
Company Watch - US Airways.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 US Airways begins Charlotte/Daytona service. US Airways Group Inc. has launched three daily round-trip flights to Daytona Beach, Fla. US Airways Express carrier Republic Airlines operates the route with 86-seat Embraer 175 regional jet aircraft. The Tempe, ...
Company Watch - Virgin Group.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Rocket engine delayed for SpaceShipTwo. Scaled Composites must determine the cause of a fatal engine explosion before it moves ahead with developing a rocket for SpaceShipTwo, company founder Burt Rutan said. The company is building a fleet of five SpaceShipTwo ...
Airline Finance News - Africa / Middle East.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 India and Saudi Arabia signed an air services agreement that will more than double the number of available seats per week between the countries to 20,000 from 8,500. Saudi carriers now can fly to Bangalore, Lucknow and Calicut in addition to the five Indian cities ...
Airline Finance News - Asia / Pacific.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Singapore announced the conclusion of bilateral open skies agreements with Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The agreements provide for "unlimited hubbing rights" for cargo carriers as well as conventional open skies conditions. Singapore now has open skies arrangements ...
Airline Finance News - Europe.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 U.K. regulators support tax based on aircraft weight. The U.K. Treasury on Thursday said it supports an aviation tax mechanism that would base taxes on an airplane's maximum take-off weight. Regulators want to replace a passenger tax with a tax that reflects the ...
Airline Finance News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 GOL Linhas Aereas GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes's new route network was conceived in order to provide business customers with adequate schedules and frequency. The new network will connect the most important business and tourism centers, benefiting from ...
Airline Finance News - North America.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Air Transport Assn. said the US airline cost index in the third quarter of 2007 was up 0.2% from the year-ago period. The consumer price index rose 2.4% over the same period, ATA said. Fuel, which accounted for 25.9% of expenses, rose 1.6% to $2.11 per gal. Unit ...
Airport Business News.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 ASIG, New York JFK ASIG won a seven-year deal to provide full ground handling services to the 16 airlines operating at New York JFK's Terminal 1, where more than 10,000 flights and 4 million passengers are expected each year. Services include ramp ...
Air Transport News.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 U.K. regulators support tax based on aircraft weight. The U.K. Treasury on Thursday said it supports an aviation tax mechanism that would base taxes on an airplane's maximum take-off weight. Regulators want to replace a passenger tax with a tax that reflects the ...
Business & General Aviation News.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 Private jets flock to Phoenix for Super Bowl XLII. Up to 1,000 corporate and chartered planes are expected to arrive in Phoenix for Super Bowl XLII this week, demonstrating the growing use of private planes. Some companies are charging $70,000 for flights in and out ...
Travel Business News.
Feb 04, 2008 ... Feb 4, 2008 World tourism exceeds expectations in 2007. The year 2007 exceeded the expectations for international tourism with arrivals reaching new record figures close to 900 million. The results confirm both the sustained growth path of the past years and the resilience of ...
Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Feb 11, 2008 ... Feb 11, 2008 Iran inaugurates space terminal and launches research rocket. Iran conducted a successful test launch of what it has publicly identified as the Kavoshgar 1 (Explorer 1) research rocket on 4 February - the same day it inaugurated its first domestically constructed ...
Aerospace & Defense News - Defense.
Feb 11, 2008 ... Feb 11, 2008 French aircraft continue Chad missions. The French Air Force (FAF) has been engaged in reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering flights over Chad throughout early February 2008, despite having to redeploy to Gabon as the fighting between the government of Chad and ...
Aerospace & Defense News - Technology.
Feb 11, 2008 ... Feb 11, 2008 Iridium Satellite, Avianca Airlines Iridium Satellite said Avianca Airlines selected Avionica's Iridium-based satLINK Communications Module for its 14 Boeing 757s and 767s. Technology offers voice and data capabilities to complement radio cockpit ...
Air Cargo News.
Feb 11, 2008 ... Feb 11, 2008 UK Dept. for Transport said the number of safety checks scheduled on foreign aircraft will more than double in the year April 1, 2008-March 31, 2009, to 600 from 250 in 2007-08 and rise to 1,000 in 2009-10. CAA ramp inspections of passenger and freighter aircraft ...
Aircraft News - Africa / Middle East.
Feb 11, 2008 ... Feb 11, 2008 French aircraft continue Chad missions. The French Air Force (FAF) has been engaged in reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering flights over Chad throughout early February 2008, despite having to redeploy to Gabon as the fighting between the government of Chad and ...
Aircraft News - Asia / Pacific.
Feb 11, 2008 ... Feb 11, 2008 Air New Zealand Pilots Stabbed In Attack Aboard Air New Zealand Plane. A woman passenger on an Air New Zealand commuter plane has been charged with hijacking after she allegedly stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the 19 seat aircraft, police ...