After a tumultuous year for the airline sector in 2008, as spirallintg fuel prices and then weakening demand prompted a string of airline collapses and retrenching by others, Airline Business takes a look at some of the key issues facing the airline industry in 2009 and beyond.
See the Airline Business blog for a look back at some of the big stories in 2008
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Investigators are probing an in-flight oscillation at cruise altitude which affected a South African Airways Airbus A330-300 operating a domestic service. The aircraft – flying from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 27 October – had been cruising at 41,000ft when it started to oscillate in pitch, between nose-up and nose-down. ...
Pilots of a Boeing 737-800 did not notice that the aircraft’s bleed-air system was not active before the jet took off from Manchester, triggering a cabin-altitude warning that remained active for over 40min. UK investigators found that the bleed-air switches had incorrectly been left off during air-conditioning pack maintenance, and ...
GE Aerospace is partnering with NASA to carry out a series of flight tests designed to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails.
