Aero-News Network: The aviation and aerospace world's daily/real-time news and information service

LAX Scraps Major Expansion

Compromise Ends 10-Year Master Plan

Plans to expand and update Los Angeles International Airport have been scrapped after meeting prolonged resistance by local civic groups and neighbors who have fought the ambitious $11 billion development project.

AD: Bombardier

AD NUMBER: 2005-24-12 MANUFACTURER: Bombardier SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-24-12 SUMMARY: This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Bombardier Model CL-600-2C10 (Regional Jet Series 700, 701, & 702) airplanes, that requires an inspection of the thrust reverser cascades for correct installation; removing and reinstalling the cascade inthe correct location, if necessary; and reworking the thrust reverser cascades to add locating spigots (metal protrusions) to each cascade; as applicable.

AD: Embraer

AD NUMBER: 2005-24-11 MANUFACTURER: Empresa SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2005-24-11 SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness directive (AD) that applies to certain Embraer Model EMB-135 and Model EMB-145 series airplanes.

We've Got Ourselves A Race! China Places $10 Billion Airbus Order

It's Not Over Yet, Folks

The seesaw sales battle between Europe's Airbus and US-manufacturer Boeing continued Monday with Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao signing a deal to buy 150 Airbus aircraft after a meeting with French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.

Aero-News Featured Aero-Casts For Monday 12.05.05

ANN Looks Into The Relaxing Of TSA Carry-On Guidelines

As was reported in Aero-News, last Friday TSA Director Edmund "Kip" Hawley announced the agency will relax its screening guidelines on certain items that have not been allowed in the cabin of a passenger airliner since 9/11. Hawley cites the increased threat to aircraft from explosives -- and the decreased danger, the agency says, from terrorists attempting another 9/11-style attack -- as the reasons behind the allowance of small tools and scissors back into the cabin. Mike Flores, president of the US Airway's flight attendants union, disagrees adamantly with Hawley's decisio

Air Zimbabwe Grounded Intermittently

Basket-Case Country Has A Basket-Case Airline

Consider Air Zimbabwe. No, not for a trip -- we value our readers. Just *think* about Air Zim for a minute. Some flag carriers seem to instantiate their nation's character, and some (like, for instance, bankrupt Swissair) seem to contradict it.

Airbus To Extend Industrial Cooperation With China

The National Development & Reform Commission of China (NDRC) and Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding about the cooperation between the Chinese civil aviation industry and the European manufacturer.