Babbitt: "We Want To Make Sure We're Not Just Checking
Boxes..."
Senior officials from US airlines, pilot unions and the FAA have
reportedly agreed on several major actions to improve safety
programs and pilot training at the nation's airlines.
Bombardier reports that testing and production of the
world’s first CRJ1000 NextGen aircraft seems to going well.
The technologically advanced 100-seat regional jet was launched in
2007 as the next major step in the evolution of the CRJ Series
airliners, the world’s most successful family of regional
aircraft.
Trans States Airlines pilots overwhelmingly voted to authorize
their local pilot union leaders of the Air Line Pilots Association,
Int’l (ALPA), the right to call a strike if a mutually
agreeable contract cannot be reached through negotiations.
This may be the 11th successive month of cutbacks in global
airline schedules. However the rate of decline in seat capacity is
lower than at any time since October 2008, reports OAG, as it
releases its monthly report on trends in the supply of airline
flights and seats.
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