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When it comes to United and the outsourcing of jobs, here are the facts: United has close to 40 contracts with foreign carriers that it uses for international flights, which has eliminated thousands of U.S. jobs. (Source: Hemispheres Magazine) Domestically, United outsources 50% of commuter flights to to small Express airlines, which do not...
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United management has made drastic cuts to its workforce over the last decade, yet the company’s revenues have increased: In 2000 United had over 100,000 employees and the company’s total gross revenue stream was $20 billion for the year. In 2011, after United merged with Continental, the company had 80,000 employees and almost 100...
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August 13, 2012 Citing the potential effect on the relationship between maintenance, repair and overhaul providers and their customers, as well as the proposal’s overall scope, nine associations have asked the FAA for 90 more days to comment on the agency’s proposed repair station rule changes. The trade groups say members have noted major...
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Delta Air Lines’ Technical Operations (TechOps) maintenance arm is pushing a raft of new engine overhaul and repair technology as part of efforts to cut costs and boost revenue. “There is a consistent tug and pull between users and original equipment...
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Embraer is carefully preparing for a narrowbody airliner that could succeed a re-engined and possibly re-winged E-Jet family sometime after 2025. Early concepts showing a new airliner with high-aspect ratio wings and ultra-high-bypass ratio engines mounted over the aft fuselage between a noise-shielding split-tail were revealed by Embraer in a presentation at LABACE in...
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Qantas has cancelled an order for 35 Boeing 787-9 aircraft to reduce capital expenditure. Deliveries of 15 787-8s to Jetstar, its low-cost subsidiary, will continue as planned, adds Australia’s flag carrier. The 787-8s will allow the transfer of Airbus A330s from Jetstar to Qantas Domestic, and the eventual retirement of Qantas’s Boeing 767 fleet....
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London trading of shares in Hampson was suspended earlier this week when the debt-burdened supplier of composite assembly tools to Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Gulfstream, Lockheed Martin and other airframers declared the end of attempts to sell the company and that it was unable to file its accounts for its year to end-March. However, though...
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The US Federal Aviation Administration has fined Delta Air lines nearly $1 million for allegedly violating safety regulations during revenue flights of an Airbus A320 and a Boeing 737-800 in 2010 and 2011. The carrier has 30 days to respond to the allegations and the associated $987,500 fine. The first supposed violation, which netted...
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Investigators probing the fatal Dana Air Boeing MD-83 approach crash to Lagos face a substantial hurdle to explain an apparent dual-engine failure on the jet, after the badly-damaged flight-data recorder was unable to provide information. The preliminary inquiry report into the 3 June accident, which killed all 153 occupants, states that while 31min of...
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The US National Transportation Safety Board says an engine fire on an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER in February would not have occurred had the Federal Aviation Administration issued an airworthiness directive after a similar problem in 2006. The NTSB in a 12 July letter is recommending that the FAA issue a new airworthiness directive (AD)...
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