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Houston Low-altitude Route Delayed

The FAA has delayed until March 12 implementation of a new low-altitude area navigation route (Rnav), T-254, in the vicinity of the Houston terminal area.

January 30, 2009

NextGen could integrate Sensis fuel-burn research

Researchers at Sensis’s Seagull Technology Center in Campbell, Calif., have calculated what they call excess fuel burned during taxiing at 13 of the nation

January 30, 2009

MA700 work gets under way in Xi’an

China’s Xi’an Aircraft Industry Company (XAC) has started preliminary work on the Modern Ark 700 (MA700), a 70-seat turboprop regional aircraft that it exp

January 30, 2009

Colgan Doubles Q400 Order

Pinnacle Airlines subsidiary Colgan Air signed a firm order last month to acquire 15 more Q400 NextGen turboprops worth some $432 million.

January 30, 2009

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Regionals hoping to stem tide of distrust toward ASAP

Growing distrust between elements within various pilot groups and airline management over the use of confidential safety information is threatening the int

January 30, 2009

IATA Director Expresses ‘Shock’ in December Traffic Figures

International Air Transport Association (IATA) director general Giovanni Bisignani characterized December’s decline in international air traffic as “shocki

January 30, 2009

Weather Forecasters Buck FAA Consolidation Plan

An FAA plan to consolidate all of the 84 National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters working in the nation’s 21 ATC en route centers into two central foreca

January 30, 2009

Jury Still Out on Effect of Credit Crunch on Aircraft OEMs

It seemed unlikely that tightening credit wouldn’t trigger more order cancellations or delivery deferrals among the world’s airlines, so even though the to

January 30, 2009

Boeing Commercial Airplanes Layoffs Puzzle Labor

Boeing’s announcement on January 9 that it planned to lay off some 4,500 employees within its Commercial Airplanes business starting in April might not hav

January 30, 2009

Airbus Meets A380 Delivery Goal, Lowers Target for 2009

It took all the resources it could reasonably muster, but Airbus managed to reach its target of delivering 12 A380 aircraft last year when on December 30 i

January 30, 2009

GKN Transfer Completes Airbus Restructuring, For Now

GKN Aerospace assumed full ownership of the former Airbus wing component and assemblies factory at Filton, UK, on January 5.

January 30, 2009

Boeing Tallies Strike Losses, 747-8 Effect

Boeing estimates that the two-month strike staged by its machinists late last year cost it some $2.5 billion in cash–the single biggest factor in the fourt

January 30, 2009

Airbus Breaks Ground on A350 Line, Pledges mid-2013 First Delivery

Having badly burned its fingers with production delays on the A380 program, Airbus is determined not to fall into the fire again with its next large airlin

January 30, 2009

Airbus Signs Major Partnership Deal with Chinese

Airbus and a group of Chinese industrial partners today signed a contract to establish a joint-venture manufacturing center in Harbin, China, to build comp

January 30, 2009

Boeing Resumes 787 Production

Boeing resumed production of 787 Dreamliners yesterday as it joined the major assemblies of the fifth airplane designated for flight test, the company anno

January 30, 2009

AIA: 2008 could prove a record year for the aerospace industry2

Despite the worldwide economic maelstrom, total sales for the U.S.

January 29, 2009

EC plan would shift money from navaids to avionics

Eurocontrol might ask the European Commission to use some of the money expected to be saved by the planned decommissioning of VOR and NDB beacons to sponso

January 29, 2009

Embraer braces for ‘challenging’ 2009

Embraer delivered a record 204 airplanes last year, including 162 jets in the regional/commercial sector, leaving the company on what it hopes proves firm

January 29, 2009

Horizon Settles On Q400 Deferrals

Horizon Air has negotiated a deferral of Q400 deliveries with Bombardier to re-time the shipments to coincide with the removal of the Seattle-based regiona

January 29, 2009

Second SSJ Takes Flight

The second of four planned Sukhoi SSJ100 prototypes–S/N 95003–took to the skies on December 24, joining the flight-test program started in May with the fir

January 29, 2009

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