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New York Delayed

By Aaron Karp and Sandra Arnoult

Airlines and regulators work to unclog Kennedy Airport. But airlines and DOT are at odds over congestion pricing.

MPL Takes Off

By Cathy Buyck and Geoffrey Thomas

ICAO's Multicrew Pilot License is winning an enthusiastic response in places as diverse as Denmark and the Philippines. But advocates still face skepticism.

Passengers Stranded

By Aaron Karp

High profile US incidents in which passengers have been kept on aircraft stuck on the tarmac for hours is drawing federal attention. Airlines say regulation is not the answer, but can they do better without it?

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Friday May 16, 2008

Teledyne Controls received an order from Philippine Airlines for AirFASE, a flight data monitoring solution jointly developed by Teledyne Controls and Airbus. PAL is the 100th customer for the solution.

Tuesday May 13, 2008

US FAA is investigating why a fuselage panel fell off an American Airlines 767 following takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth last month en route to Paris Charles de Gaulle, the Associated Press reported. The agency also is examining why the aircraft carried on to CDG rather than returning to DFW. An internal AA memo obtained by AP stated that while pictures of the fuselage with a missing panel "are very dramatic," the flight did not pose a safety risk. Pilots heard a loud noise shortly after takeoff but did not know what it was, and "obviously" would have returned to DFW had they been aware of the missing panel, the memo said.

BA to begin long-haul T5 transfer as under-fire BAA gets £400 million injection

Monday May 12, 2008

British Airways will begin shifting long-haul flights to London Heathrow's Terminal 5 next month, it said in a joint statement with airports operator BAA. [more]

Operational problems cost Pinnacle

Monday May 12, 2008

Pinnacle Airlines Corp. suffered a plunge in first-quarter profit to $2.7 million from $9.4 million in the year-ago quarter as rising fuel costs produced a $5 million operating loss at its Colgan Air subsidiary and severe weather and an increase in maintenance events resulted in its Pinnacle subsidiary failing to meet incentive levels contained in its Airline Services Agreement with Northwest Airlines. [more]

Monday May 12, 2008

Aviapartner won a contract from Air One for the provision of full handling services at Milan Malpensa. Contract covers about 130 weekly flights.

Monday May 12, 2008

Unisys won a two-year contract with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority to supply, implement and oversee an identification management system using fingerprint and iris biometric technology for employee verification at 29 airports. COTS-based technology will replace applications in the RAIC system and allow CATSA to update the security status of 100,000 airport workers. Contract includes two additional two-year option periods.

Latest FAA revelation: More than 100 safety assessments at eight airlines missed

Wednesday May 7, 2008

US FAA said that more than five years have elapsed since it conducted assessments on 103 system designs at eight airlines, exceeding the timeframe during which the reviews were supposed to have taken place and the latest in a string of admissions by the agency regarding lapses in its airline oversight. [more]

Wednesday May 7, 2008

European Commission withdrew previously announced plans to limit the maximum size of cabin baggage throughout the EU to 56x45x25 cm. Decision to shelve the plan, which already had been postponed from May 2007, was made to avoid "undue operational complications and inconvenience for passengers on cabin baggage size." Initial plans to restrict the size of hand baggage were part of a package of security measures drawn up in 2006 following the discovery of a terrorist plot to smuggle explosives aboard transatlantic flights.

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