 Continental
Airlines and the city of Houston will roughly split the financing of $1.2
billion in improvements to Terminal B at Bush Intercontinental Airport,
officials said Monday.
And passengers will pick up part of the bill. Plans call for the project, which
will expand the facility from 360,000 to 1.7 million square feet and is expected
to take seven to 10 years to complete, to reshape the north and south concourses
and modernize the entire terminal. |
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WASHINGTON — AirTran and Jet Blue have taken the top spots in a national survey
of airline quality. They were followed by Southwest, Northwest and Frontier
airlines. At the bottom of the list was Atlantic Southeast Airlines.
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 Boeing
[NYSE: BA] today announced a revised plan for first flight and initial
deliveries of the 787 Dreamliner that includes additional schedule margin to
reduce risk of further delays on the program.
While significant progress has been made assembling Airplane #1, first flight is
being rescheduled due to slower than expected completion of work that traveled
from supplier facilities into Boeing's final assembly line, unanticipated
rework, and the addition of margin into the testing schedule. The new delivery
schedule is based on a more conservative production plan developed with the 787
partner team. That schedule now targets approximately 25 deliveries in 2009. |
 "Chances
are much of your car was built in Mexico. Increasingly, the planes you fly on
are, too. Aerospace companies are streaming to Mexico, drawn by lower wages,
enthusiastic government promotion, a new safety agreement with the United States
and an increasingly sophisticated workforce. |
 Berlin, Germany (AHN) - Top European aircraft maker Airbus is set to start
flight tests of the cargo version of its top-selling A320 plane within the next
three years, newspaper reports said Monday. |
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) will
close two of the four runways at Nashville International Airport (BNA) during
the coming weeks for necessary reconstruction. Runway 2R-20L will have
restricted operations beginning Feb. 29 with full closure anticipated in April
Runway 2R-20L will re-open in October.
While these runways are closed, BNA's two other parallel runways, 2L-20R and
2C-20C, will handle all traffic, resulting in increased aircraft overflights to
certain areas north and south of BNA. |
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Airports have grown busier over the years, the potential for collisions on
airport runways and taxiways has increased as well. To combat the impact of this
trend, the FAA is deploying ASDE-X, a new runway-safety tool. ASDE-X enables air
traffic controllers to detect potential runway conflicts by providing detailed
coverage of movement on runways and taxiways. By collecting data from a variety
of sources, ASDE-X is able to track vehicles and aircraft on the airport
movement area and obtain identification information from aircraft transponders. |
 The
"Garmin-ization" of Cessna´s single-engine line is complete. Cessna announced
this week in Lakeland that it recently achieved Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) certification to deliver its Caravan models with Garmin G1000 integrated
avionics as standard equipment. |
 Embraer
formally introduced, today, its new Embraer MSJ and Embraer MLJ executive jet
programs, which were recently approved by the Company's Board of Directors. The
midsize Embraer MSJ, with a 3,000 nautical miles (5,560 km) range, and the
midlight Embraer MLJ, with a 2,300 nautical miles (4,260 km) range, will be
positioned between the Legacy 600 and the Phenom 300 in the Company's executive
jets portfolio. An estimated US$ 750 million will be invested in research and
development for the new models, which will enter service in the second semester
of 2012 and 2013, respectively. |
 Pilatus Aircraft Ltd is delighted to announce receipt of European Aviation
Safety Agency (EASA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for
the Next Generation PC-12, now officially called the PC-12 NG. Announced at NBAA
2006, the Next Generation program is the latest progression of the highly
successful PC-12 turboprop. Pilatus engineers worked diligently over the last
years in order to achieve timely certification. |
 Less than two weeks after grounding its MD-80 fleet for safety inspections,
American Airlines said Tuesday that it again needed to take those aircraft out
of service to address the same issue: how wires in the wheel wells are secured.
American canceled up to 500 flights at airports around the country Tuesday,
including 66 evening flights at O'Hare International Airport. More disruptions
were expected at least through Wednesday until safety checks could be completed. |
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