All Safety News – Page 414
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NewsDUBAI: CAE training venture to add second simulator
Ten years after Emirates teamed with CAE to launch the Middle East's first third-party simulator centre, to meet soaring demand for pilot and maintenance technician training, the joint venture - ECFT - is planning a second facility in Dubai.
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DUBAI: Burt Rutan reveals secret ekranoplan project
Retired Scaled Composites founder Burt Rutan has revealed at the Dubai air show that his latest, secret aircraft project is actually a wing-in-ground effect vehicle.
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NewsIN FOCUS: Man-machine interface promises revolution in flightdeck technology
Advances in technologies governing the man-machine interface promise a revolution in the flightdeck's ease of operation
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NewsA340 - the long goodbye
Airbus has finally terminated the A340, but should it have done it sooner and concentrated on selling many more A330 twinjets instead?
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DUBAI: Paradigm plans real-time push
UK-based satellite communications specialist Paradigm Services plans to introduce real-time data transmission services between commercial aircraft and ground stations by mid-2012.
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Kingfisher in talks with banks to secure higher credit limit
Kingfisher Airlines has reiterated that it is not seeking a bail-out from the Indian government, but confirmed that it is in talks with banks to secure a...
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NewsDUBAI: Garuda picks CFM Leap-1-A engines for A320neos
Garuda Indonesia has picked the CFM International Leap-1-A for its Airbus A320neo aircraft, and ordered CFM56-5B powerplants for its standard A320s and Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines for four more Airbus A330s.
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DUBAI: Face the facts with ATR CEO Filippo Bagnato
Filippo Bagnato is chief executive of Franco-Italian turboprop aircraft maker ATR, which has enjoyed a record year in terms of order intake some three decades after the venture was established.
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NewsDUBAI: Maximus keen to grow humanitarian efforts
Maximus Air Cargo is keen to expand a humanitarian aid concept centred on reducing airlift costs and extend it to utilising spare capacity on flights.
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NewsDUBAI: Permagard touts bio-coating efficiency benefits
Permagard is at the show promoting its bio-coating technology after winning a contract to protect all of Etihad's aircraft.
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Oxygen problems, control loss led to UPS 747 crash
United Arab Emirates (UAE) investigators have detailed how a UPS Boeing 747-400 freighter crew struggled with the oxygen supply and battled against a loss...
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DUBAI: Emirates, Qatar could spring order surprises
Emirates and Qatar Airways each appear prepared to spring a surprise during the show and are likely to express initial reactions to Airbus's newly-disclosed delay of the A350.
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DUBAI: Fresh speakers announced for training conference
Captain Jacques Drappier, senior training adviser for Airbus (stand W860), and Othman Al Khoori, vice president human resources administration for Abu Dhabi...
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IAG targets €1.5bn operating profit in 2015
British Airways and Iberia parent International Airlines Group (IAG) has set itself an operating profit target of €1.5 billion ($2 billion) in 2015 through...
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Chinese airlines to fight EU ETS
Several Chinese carriers are planning to take their case against the European Union's (EU) plan to charge for carbon emissions to court.
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Shutdowns prompt new GE CF6 directive: FAA
Reports of eight in-flight and four on-ground unintended shutdowns of General Electric CF6-80C2B wide-body turbofan engines have prompted the US Federal...
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NewsEADS indicates "termination" of Airbus A340 programme
Airbus appears to have ended its A340 aircraft programme, according to details in the financial results of its parent company EADS.
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NewsNTSB: Cape Air pilot ignored backup gauge in 2010 overrun
A just released factual report on the 1 February 2010 overrun by a...
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UK CAA to incentivise NATS to meet new efficiency targets
New air traffic efficiency targets proposed by the UK CAA could save 600,000t of carbon dioxide over the next three years.
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NewsVirgin Atlantic to keep immunity from price-fixing penalties: OFT
Virgin Atlantic will not lose its immunity from penalties for alleged price-fixing activity, according to a proposed decision put forward today by the UK...