The US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. -- which insures
defined-benefit plans when employers can no longer meet their
financial obligations -- objected Thursday to the tentative pay
agreement reached between the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)
and Delta Air Lines last month.
Joins Other Eastern European Regional Carriers Flying 146s
BAE Systems Regional Aircraft announced this week it has leased
two BAe 146-200 regional jetliners to newly-established Serbian
carrier Centavia (short for Central European Aviation). The
Belgrade-based airline will take delivery of the first aircraft
this month, while the second aircraft will follow in July.
AD NUMBER: 2006-11-06
MANUFACTURER: Boeing
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-11-06
SUMMARY: The FAA is adopting a new airworthiness directive
(AD) for certain Boeing Model 767-200 and -300 series
airplanes.
AD NUMBER: 2006-11-08
MANUFACTURER: BAE Systems
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2006-11-08
SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness
directive (AD), which applies to certain BAE Systems (Operations)
Limited Model BAe 146 and Avro 146-RJ airplanes.
At a luncheon speech before the Executives' Club of Chicago
Wednesday, American Airlines CEO Gerald Arpey joined the chorus of
voices from domestic airlines advocating user fees for business
aviation traffic as a means to pay for an upgraded air traffic
control network.
Following the delivery of the last two Boeing 717s
earlier this week, the head of the company's Long
Beach, CA commercial production facility was, technically, out of a
job... but not for very long.
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