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All News

July 19, 2006

Northwest, AFA Reach Tentative Agreement

Voting Expected By July 31

Will this be the contract that sticks? We'll soon see... as flight attendants at Northwest Airlines tentatively agreed this week to yet another new contract with the embattled carrier.

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Power Outage Grounds Flights In SoCal

The Night The Lights Went Out In L.A.

Were you stuck on the ground Tuesday evening, unable to depart from a California airport? If so, you weren't alone... as a power outage at the FAA's Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale meant nearly all air traffic around Los Angeles -- and as far away as the San Francisco Bay Area -- was grounded for as much as 90 minutes.

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BTS Releases May Passenger Airline Employment Data

May 2006 Employment Down 5.0 Percent from May 2005

US scheduled passenger airlines employed 5.0 percent fewer workers in May 2006 than in May 2005, the 17th consecutive month that full-time equivalent employee (FTE) levels for the scheduled passenger carriers declined compared to the same month of the previous year, the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported Tuesday.

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Boeing Raking In Orders At Farnborough

New Deals From ILFC, Pegasus, Flyington Freighters

Building on Monday's announcement of orders from Lion Air and LoadAir Cargo -- for 737-900s and 747-200Fs, respectively -- Boeing continues its order onslaught at Farnborough 2006.

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Libya Returns To The Commercial Aviation Scene In A Big Way

Afriqiyah Airways Orders A320s, A330s

At this week's Farnborough International Air Show, Airbus announced that Libya's Afriqiyah Airways has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of six A320 and three A319 airliners, as well as an option on five more of that family. Afriqiyah also ordered A330-200s, plus three options.

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Delta Connection Pilots Unite

Strength In Numbers

In the "us versus them" world of being a pilot for a Delta Air Lines subisidiary, the past few months haven't been easy -- as the bankrupt carrier has battled with all of its feeder operations in an effort to cut costs. Well, those pilots can rest a little easier today... because the "us" side of that equation appears to have gotten a lot stronger.

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Lawsuit Filed In Wright Amendment Compromise

Comes As Suburb Drops Its Objections To Deal

It was a case of one step forward, one step back this week for supporters of the agreement to end the fight over the Wright Amendment in North Texas... as a major victory was followed shortly afterward by a lawsuit.

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Varig Back On The Ropes

Faces Dissolution As Buyout Fails

Varig, Brazil's once stately flagship carrier, faces dissolution Wednesday... after creditors rejected an offer to buy the troubled airline for a half-billion dollars.

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