Many Major Airlines Reporting Improving Financial Results
Airlines for America (A4A) on Wednesday delivered its Labor Day air travel forecast and first half 2014 results for U.S. passenger airlines, which reported improving profitability, enabling carriers to invest in their workforce, reduce debt and enhance the customer experience for airline passengers.
In 2013, for the third year in a row, the annual global production of commercial aircraft crossed 1,000 aircraft per year. In the next 20 years, the aerospace industry is expected to have an additional 34,000 commercial aircraft. The frenzied activity in this industry is expected to ripple into the sensor market. Sensor manufacturers have been developing technologically superior sensors to keep pace with airlines, which are updating their fleets with new fuel-efficient aircraft in order to stay competitive.
Most of us have experienced a flight delay ... sitting in our seats at the gate while airline personnel work out one problem or another. But the passengers on recent a Saudia flight were forced to wait an additional six hours because a fight broke out between the pilot of the airplane and one of the flight attendants.
An investigation by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has determined that a China Eastern flight was forced to abandon a landing attempt and go around because air traffic controllers were sleeping on the job.
Family Of A Passenger On A Plane That Went Down En Route To Cuba Had Filed The Suit
The family of passenger who was aboard an Aero Caribbean ATR 72 that went down on a flight to Cuba cannot sue the French planemaker in California, a court has ruled.
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