All North America articles – Page 219
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NewsCanadian travel sector presses government for reopening strategy
Representatives from Canada’s airlines, airports and tourism sector have called on the government to quickly develop a national strategy to reopen the country to travel.
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NewsHawaiian shutters Ohana regional subsidiary
Hawaiian Airlines has pulled the plug on its Ohana by Hawaiian subsidiary as the pandemic and ongoing risk mitigation measures have led to a sharp decline in neighbour island service demand.
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NewsUSAF bungling caused KC-46’s $100m refuelling boom redesign: Inspector General
By overlooking design changes made by Boeing to the KC-46A’s refuelling boom, the US Air Force (USAF) missed an opportunity to catch problems early and stave off a $100 million redesign effort.
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NewsBreeze Airways gets airborne with first flight from Tampa to Charleston
The first Breeze Airways flight took off from Tampa International airport at 10:44 local time on 27 May, marking the launch of a new US airline and another chapter in the start-up-studded career of founder David Neeleman.
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NewsUSAF should consider supersonic business jets for battlefield management: think tank
The Mitchell Institute is calling on the US Air Force to consider using in-development supersonic business jets as next-generation command and control aircraft.
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NewsTransat COO Guerard to succeed retiring chief Eustache
Transat AT chief operations officer Annick Guerard will become chief executive of the company on 27 May, succeeding current CEO Jean-Marc Eustache, who is retiring.
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NewsHonda unveils new HondaJet variant, Elite S
Honda Aircraft has unveiled a new variant of its HondaJet, the Elite S, which has upgraded avionics and 120nm additional range.
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NewsIATA expects airline passenger numbers to exceed pre-Covid levels in 2023
Airline industry body IATA has outlined an “optimistic” outlook for the Covid-19 recovery, forecasting that pre-crisis passenger numbers will be exceeded as soon as 2023.
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NewsUS-Mexico flights continue despite safety downgrade, Delta strips code from Aeromexico flights
US carriers will continue to operate flights to Mexico normally following the Federal Aviation Administration’s recent downgrade of the country following a safety evaluation.
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NewsAirline recovery brings fresh cash-crunch risk as costs return: IATA chief
Airlines will face a new cash-crunch challenge as the resumption of operations sees a range of costs return alongside a lack of liquidity from forward bookings, in the view of IATA director general Willie Walsh.
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NewsPost-summer US travel demand uncertain: American
At the moment, US airlines are riding a surge in demand for domestic leisure travel this summer.
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NewsLawmakers urge Biden, FAA to address Belarus overflight concern
Two US lawmakers are warning that airspace over Belarus is “not safe” for critics of that country’s government, calling a 23 May diversion of a Ryanair flight to Minsk “state-sponsored hijacking”.
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NewsP&W views ‘sole-source’ contract as required for development of next commercial engine
Developing a new commercial aircraft engine will be tough to justify for Pratt & Whitney without an airframer committing to a single engine type for their next clean-sheet commercial aircraft.
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NewsUS Navy declares Joint Precision Approach and Landing System operational
The US Navy has declared initial operational capability (IOC) for Raytheon’s Joint Precision Approach and Landing System aboard its nuclear aircraft carriers.
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NewsFAA orders more V2500 disk inspections, citing ‘uncontained’ failure risk
The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency order requiring aircraft operators to inspect high-pressure turbine disks in some International Aero Engines V2500s, which power Airbus A320-family jets.
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NewsRaytheon looks at integrating AMRAAM-ER in F-35A internal carriage
The US Air Force’s F-35A could field two examples of the larger missile, one in each internal weapons bay.
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NewsP&W aims for new Asheville site to begin producing airfoils in 2022
Pratt & Whitney intends to begin producing high-pressure turbine airfoils for commercial and military aircraft engines at its new North Carolina facility by the second half of 2022.
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NewsDelta hires GE executive Janki as new CFO
Delta Air Lines has hired longtime General Electric executive Daniel Janki as its next chief financial officer.
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NewsNeeleman’s Breeze Airways to be airborne from 27 May
Breeze Airways, the new low-cost airline led by serial aviation entrepreneur David Neeleman will begin operating flights next week, spooling up to a network of 39 routes between 16 cities across the eastern half of the USA by July.
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NewsWestJet 737 overrun crew did not anticipate tailwind from runway change
Canadian investigators believe a WestJet Boeing 737-800 overran at Halifax after its crew failed to realise that a landing runway change would result in a tailwind, rather than a crosswind, during the approach. The tailwind component exceeded the operator’s limit of 10kt and required a lower approach speed, says Transportation ...