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Continental Airlines is to expand the pilot of its Paperless Boarding Pass
system to three more airports. The system was launched in Houston in December
2007. It works by allowing passengers to receive their boarding passes
electronically, in the form of an encrypted bar code sent to a mobile phone or
PDA. These are then scanned at the airport by Transportation Security
Administration officials. |
 Mexicana
Airlines will halt flights between Bakersfield and Guadalajara at least
temporarily starting next week, a company spokeswoman said Monday. High fuel
costs prompted the decision to suspend flights for 30 days while the company
re-evaluates the service, said Teresa Hitchcock, analysis and marketing manager
for Kern County Airports, adding that she learned of the suspension Friday. |
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WASHINGTON - United Airlines and US Airways are in very advanced talks and
expect to announce within weeks that they are combining, two people familiar
with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Monday. Putting the two
carriers together would create an airline that would jockey with a combined
Delta-Northwest for the title of world’s largest airline.
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A double-header of hearings Thursday gave the chief executives of Delta Air
Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. a sampling of the skepticism and
scrutiny their proposed combination faces on Capitol Hill. |
TOKYO - Japan's top automaker Toyota Motor Corp. will invest $67.2 million in a
project to build the country's first passenger jet in more than three decades,
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. said Wednesday.
The company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd, was
established April 1 to build and sell the new Mitsubishi Regional Jet, or MRJ.
Initially capitalized at $28.8 million, it sought out additional investors to
accelerate development and boost global marketing efforts, Mitsubishi Aircraft
said in a statement |
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a draft after-the-fact "biological
opinion" about last year's destruction of three eagles' nests at and around the
Orlando Sanford International Airport. The destruction of their nests "did not
result in jeopardy to the species," the document said in its conclusion.
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São José dos Campos, April 29, 2008 – The Embraer Phenom 300, a standard-setter
for the light jet category, successfully took to the air on its maiden flight,
today, from the Company’s Gavião Peixoto test runway. In the coming months, the
first Phenom 300, serial number 99801, will participate in the flight test
campaign along with three additional Phenom 300 jets. It is expected to enter
service in the second semester of 2009. |
 Wichita,
Kan., April 28, 2008 – Employees at Cessna Aircraft Company, a Textron Inc.
(NYSE: TXT) company, celebrated the roll out of the first production Citation
XLS+ on Friday at the company's primary design and manufacturing facilities in
Wichita. The XLS+ is the latest version of the world's best-selling business jet
model.
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A private airplane has crashed into a crowd of people at a German air show,
killing one person and injuring at least ten others. Sky News has reported that
three of those hurt are believed to have suffered serious injuries, while the
rest received minor injuries. |
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LONDON - PRNewswire - The continued threat of terrorism is set to drive growth
across the entire European airport security equipment market, especially given
recent European Union legislation, which aims to impose standard security
requirements across all member states. |
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