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Embraer plans more business jets

Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer left no doubt that it plans to become a major player in the business aviation market over the next decade.

Aircraft

September 18, 2006

Negotiations to continue for Mesaba, employees

The judge overseeing the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Minneapolis-based Mesaba Airlines ruled last month that the airline may not unilaterally cancel the

September 15, 2006

Euro Bizav Traffic To Grow 50 Percent

A report issued last month by Eurocontrol projects that over the next 10 years Europe’s fleet of turbine business aircraft will grow by about 4 percent ann

ATC

September 15, 2006

News Update: Buttrell Quits Comair

Fred Buttrell resigned his position as president of Delta subsidiary Comair in late May, days after a bankruptcy court judge rejected the airline’s request

September 15, 2006

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News Update: Embraer Takes Back Wing Work

This month will mark the end of Kawasaki Aeronautica do Brasil’s wing production in Gaviao Peixoto, Brazil, as the company transfers work packages for the

September 15, 2006

News Update: ASA To Lose ATRs

Delta Air Lines has decided to allow the leases to lapse on Atlantic Southeast Airlines’ ATR 72s, spelling the end of the fleet by June 30 of next year, ac

September 15, 2006

News Update: Pinnacle Ready for a ‘Beating’

Pinnacle Airlines CEO Phil Trenary told a gathering of journalists at the RAA convention in Dallas in late May that he fully expects his airline to, in his

September 15, 2006

RAA 06 Convention Report: Interests clash as group takes pass on ATC funding

The relatively heavy traffic in the exhibit halls during this year’s RAA Convention in Dallas might have obscured an underlying atmosphere of anxiety if no

September 15, 2006

RAA 06 Convention Report: T-props grab top billing at annual meet

The resurgent turboprop market showed no signs of retreat during late May’s Regional Airline Association convention in Dallas, where word leaked that Conti

September 15, 2006

RAA 06 Convention Report: Ornstein bullish on Go! following June 9 launch

Mesa Air Group CEO Jonathan Ornstein reported that load factors at his new inter-island Hawaiian market entrant dubbed Go! “significantly exceeded…expectat

September 15, 2006

Arik Takes Delivery of Two CRJ900s

Arik Air, Nigeria’s new airline, took a solid step forward last month when it accepted delivery of the first two Bombardier CRJ900 regional jets in Africa

September 15, 2006

Q400s Fly into Iraq

Royal Jordanian Airlines began flying direct flights to the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniah in northern Iraq last month with one of its recently acquired 70-se

September 15, 2006

Mesaba, Comair head back to court

Mesaba Airlines last month filed a new bankruptcy court petition to void its contracts with its pilots, mechanics and flight attendants, only three weeks a

September 15, 2006

ATA and ‘Commercial Airspace’

As the user-fee battle rages, rhetoric from Air Transport Association (ATA) member airlines is reaching vast audiences.

September 15, 2006

Farnborough International preview

The Farnborough International 2006 airshow (to be held July 17 to 23) is set to be a record-breaker, with more exhibitors and aircraft than ever before.

September 15, 2006

'Measurable' Progress Shown by ATO...

In his first appearance before the Washington Aero Club in nearly three years, FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) COO Russ Chew told the group that a recen

ATC

September 14, 2006

…While NASA Cuts Hurt NGATS

Reductions to NASA’s aeronautics budgets are undermining critical research for the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS), according to Dr.

ATC

September 14, 2006

After ADS-B launch, security concerns raised

In one of the FAA’s more unusual program launches, agency Administrator Marion Blakey publicly announced last month the formal launch of the nationwide ADS

ATC

September 14, 2006

ATC Consolidation May Need BRAC-like Help

With the FAA planning to consolidate major ATC facilities and its regional offices, Rep.

ATC

September 14, 2006

The FAA now has the technology in place to deploy Airspace Flow Programs (AFPs) in support of its Severe Weather Avoidance Plan.

The AFPs will primarily affect traffic flying into the Northeast from domestic origins west of the New York and Boston Air Route Traffic Control Centers.

ATC

September 14, 2006