Urges Standards For All Airline Pilots

ALPA President, Capt. Lee Moak, issued the following statement in response to the NTSB meeting last week regarding the 2009 Empire Airlines Flight 8284 accident at Lubbock, Texas. “The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l, commends the National Transportation Safety Board for its work to enhance aviation safety with a thorough review of the Empire Airlines accident. In its meeting, the Board discussed flight crew fatigue, flight operations in icing conditions, and the need to enhance crew resource management training for all airline pilots. Unfortunately, these safety concerns, which ALPA has pressed to address for decades, persist in our industry today, even in this period of remarkably safe airline operations...

More Than 330 Firm Orders And Commitments Are Reportedly On The Books

European planemaker Airbus says the exceptional commercial activity for its A320neo (new engine option) is led by a 100-aircraft order from international leasing company ILFC - which was announced earlier this week, finalizing a memorandum of understanding inked in March.

Network Adjustments Planned For Frontier Operation

Republic Airways Holdings has amended its capacity purchase agreement with Delta Air Lines to provide for the addition of six dual-class E170 aircraft.

YouTube Video Suggests Real Problems With Tri-Engine Airliner

The data is quite sparse, but a video uploaded to YouTube by Russia Today sure suggests that a recent TU-154 TakeOff could have gone pretty wrong. The video shows the triple-engine airliner gyrating fairly aggressively in all three axes with significant yaw and roll excursions that sure seem to indicate that someone in the cockpit was not having a good time. If the video is for real (remember, this is YouTube), the TU-154 was able to be brought back to a safe landing at a Moscow airport despite the significant control issues clearly shown in the video. Minimal details currently available suggest that the aircraft was flown only by the flight crew and that no passengers were on board and that his might suggest that t

Strategic Growth Initiative Expected To Begin Operations In May

Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings said Friday that its Atlas Air, Inc. unit has been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense to begin providing passenger charter service for U.S. military personnel.