European Union ministers have signed a new interim deal covering the transfer of European airline passenger name record (PNR) data on transatlantic flights to US authorities. It replaces an earlier agreement which was annulled by a European Court of Justice, forcing authorities to quickly reach a new agreement to avoid a possible legal vacuum. The new deal runs until July 2007 so authorities still need a longer-term arrangement.
Source: Airline Business
ATR has ended its effort to develop a short take-off and landing (STOL) variant of the ATR 42-600 after failing to secure as many orders as it had hoped.
Modification venture EFW has reached triple figures with Airbus passenger-to-freighter conversions, with the delivery of an A330-300. The A330 underwent conversion at one of EFW’s partner facilities in China. It brings overall EFW deliveries of Airbus P2F airframes to 100. Forty-nine of these conversions have been A330s, with a further ...
Comac has also officially renamed its ARJ21 regional jet programme to the C909, in line with the naming convention of its other two programmes the C919 and C929.
