All Safety News – Page 119
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Air France-KLM's third-quarter profit dips on softer unit revenue
Air France KLM has posted a moderate decline in third-quarter profit after higher fuel costs and weaker unit revenue overwrote a steady growth in passenger numbers.
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Qantas dismisses 'alarmist' union call to ground 737s
Qantas has hit back at its engineers' union's "alarmist" call to ground its entire fleet of Boeing 737-800s, after one of them was found to contain structural cracks.
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British Airways cuts Miami capacity over Trent 1000 issues
British Airways is cutting its winter frequencies to Miami because of ongoing issues with the Trent 1000 engines on its Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
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Air Canada A319 crew failed to hear landing clearance
Canadian investigators have disclosed that an Air Canada Airbus A319 touched down at San Francisco despite its crew's not hearing the landing clearance.
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Gatwick trial targets 10% cut in boarding times
London Gatwick airport is conducting a trial to find the most efficient sequence to seat passengers, in a bid to reduce boarding times by 10%.
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Misled ATR excursion crew shut down functioning systems
Investigators have determined that an Air Vanuatu ATR 72-500 crew misdiagnosed an engine failure as an electrical smoke problem and consequently referred to the wrong checklist, unwittingly disengaging systems which were not malfunctioning.
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A220 engine checks revised after high-cycle Swiss failure
US regulators have disclosed that the most recent incident involving failure of a Swiss Airbus A220 engine occurred with a powerplant which had accumulated more than 300 cycles.
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Latin American airlines embrace equity ties with larger carriers
Leaders of Latin American carrier expressed optimism on 28 October about the increasingly common joint ventures and airline-airline equity investments, while also downplaying regional challenges as workaday hurdles.
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Crew unaware of collision before A330 take-off halted
Pilots of an Air France Airbus A330-200 had been preparing to take off from Paris Charles de Gaulle, unaware of a ground collision with a Delta Air Lines A330-300, before air traffic control intervened to prevent the departure.
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Trent blade limit ‘insufficient’ before Norwegian 787 failure
Italian investigators have disclosed that there was no engine de-pairing requirement in place for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000s fitted to a Norwegian Boeing 787 before one of its powerplants failed after take-off from Rome. The engines were subject to a modification – under a service bulletin designated 72-H818 – which ...
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Alaska Airlines cancels all Santa Rosa flights due to wildfire
Alaska Airlines cancelled all of its scheduled service to the Santa Rosa, California airport, north of San Francisco, due to a massive wildfire nearby which has burned tens of thousands of hectares and forced 180,000 residents to flee their homes.
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Avianca to codeshare with Gol as it overhauls business
Avianca has disclosed that it will begin a codesharing agreement with Brazil's domestic market leader Gol, further expanding the Colombian flag carrier's network in South America's largest aviation market as it moves forward from a challenging year.
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Silverstone under safety audit as Dash 8 loses wheel
Kenya's civil aviation regulators has disclosed that Silverstone Air Services is being subjected to an audit, after another incident involving a turboprop operated by the regional carrier.
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A220 operators told to limit engine thrust at high altitude
Operators of Airbus A220s are facing operational limitations of the twinjet's engines, following several serious incidents involving powerplant failure.
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FAA administrator: 737 Max will be made safe
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration is giving no clue about when his agency might clear Boeing's 737 Max to fly.
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Nordica stops own-brand flights but subsidiary to expand
Estonian carrier Nordica has suspended operations carried out from Tallinn under its own brand, owing to cost pressures.
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Shift of 737 Max costs cuts Icelandair full-year loss forecast
Icelandair Group has slashed its forecast full-year losses, partly owing to its extending the suspension of Boeing 737 Max services.
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Brazil government pro-aviation stance pushed air transport growth
The Brazilian government and local airline industry are using this year's ALTA Airline Leaders Forum to stress the country's recent pro-aviation advancements and the resulting boom in commercial aviation growth.
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Copa chief says three-way JV behind schedule
The paperwork for anti-trust immunity for a joint venture between United Airlines, Panama's Copa Airlines and Colombia's Avianca will likely not be filed with regulators until next year, thus pushing back a potential start for the project to 2021 at the earliest, Copa's chief executive Pedro Heilbron said at the ...