Recent Increases Reflect Uptick In Air Services Demand
The Air Transport Association of America (ATA) issued a report
Tuesday showing passenger revenue, based on a sample group of
carriers, rose 1.4 percent in January versus the same month in
2009, reversing 14 consecutive months of declines.
A group of about 170 Southwest Airlines stock clerks, which
manage the parts inventories for the airline's aircraft, voted
Tuesday to reject the a contract negotiated with the discount
carrier. The contract would have been retroactive to 2008,
and would have become amendable August 16th, 2013.
Hersman Reiterates 25 Recommendations Made To FAA Following The
Accident
NTSB Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman and FAA Associate
Administrator Peggy Gilligan testified in the U.S. Senate today
about the status of aviation safety a year after the crash of
Continental Flight 3407 near Buffalo, New York on February 12,
2009.
Ground-Breaking On Four-Year, $1.545-Billion Bradley West
Project
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa was joined Monday by
City Councilmembers Janice Hahn and Bill Rosendahl and other
officials in a ceremony to break ground on a long-awaited major
modernization of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los
Angeles International Airport (KLAX).
A third airplane has joined the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
flight-test program. ZA004, the fourth flight-test airplane to be
built, took off at 1143 PST local time Wednesday from Paine Field
in Everett, WA. The data ZA004 is collecting is needed both
for certification and development of the 787-9.
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