The first of 32 Fairchild Dornier 328JETs has been delivered to Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA), for operation on United Express flights from Washington Dulles and New York Newark airports. ACA already operates 29 of the 32-seaters as a Delta Connection carrier.
Source: Flight International
The National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) ongoing hearing into the January in-flight failure of a Boeing 737 Max 9’s door plug has highlighted problems at Boeing’s Renton site, including concerns about employee training and pressure to complete work.
Cockpit crew representatives have asked Airbus’s leadership to reconsider its exploration of single-pilot operations, citing the recent IT-related air transport disruption as illustrating the risks of over-reliance on technology. Three pilot associations – the US ALPA International, Europe’s ECA, and international federation IFALPA – have written to Airbus chief Guillaume ...
Russian flag-carrier Aeroflot has filed a claim against aerospace firm Yakovlev with the Moscow arbitration court. While the fundamental argument and details of the case have not been revealed, the claim sum disclosed by the court filing is just under Rb7.3 billion ($86 million). Yakovlev is the manufacturer of Superjet ...
