US aerospace lobby reacts to job-offshoring penalty plan
Although Republican Congressional politicians and organizations quickly criticized President-elect Donald Trump’s 4 December tweeted proposa... Continue Reading
Author: Chris Kjelgaard
OPINION: Why approving NAI’s permit is good for US airline industry
Predictably, most of the interview pitches I have received from PR people regarding the Department of Transportation’s final decision on 2 D... Continue Reading
Defending its decision, Rockwell touts value of B/E Aerospace buy
Following publication of a Bloomberg Markets report that activist fund Starboard Value LP and several other shareholders were pressuring Roc... Continue Reading
Why bizav is also a key market for GE’s new data exchange
Business aviation and commercial aviation will be major target markets for two new data-exchange and data-transmission partnerships which GE... Continue Reading
Colombia’s Wingo goes for fresh, friendly and unpretentious vibe
Copa Holdings’ new Colombian subsidiary Wingo is positioning its passenger experience, sales and ticket-distribution strategies to appeal to... Continue Reading
LEAP: Cristina Seda-Hoelle turns up the volume
Few people in the aerospace-manufacturing industry have roles as vital as Cristina Seda-Hoelle’s is to GE Aviation and its CFM International... Continue Reading
B/E Aerospace could bring Rockwell $50m more per fleet win
With cross-selling opportunities aplenty, Rockwell Collins estimates completion of its planned friendly takeover of aircraft interiors speci... Continue Reading
Real-time aircraft weight-and-balance coming to BizAv app
Aircraft Performance Group (APG) will unveil at the 1-3 November NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Orlando new real-time... Continue Reading
Honeywell to launch connected radar application via Global Xpress
With multiple aircraft type-specific certifications already awarded for Honeywell Aerospace’s JetWave hardware to support Inmarsat’s Global ... Continue Reading
Longhaul economy class is next target for air-filled seat cushions
Over the last 15 years, Lantal Textiles has worked to break the old paradigm of using foam cushions in premium seats by using lighter air-fi... Continue Reading
ACI World calls for common-sense landside security at airports
As the bombings which killed 35 people (three of them suicide bombers) on 22 March in Brussels Airport’s main terminal building show, airpor... Continue Reading
Asiana A380 smoke-alert incident begs questions
Aviation-industry insiders, including commercial pilots and aviation safety experts, are puzzled why the pilots of an Asiana Airlines Airbus... Continue Reading
IATA seeks international cooperation to combat unruly passengers
By asking all countries represented at the 39th ICAO Assembly now underway to ratify the Montreal Protocol 2014 on unruly passengers, IATA i... Continue Reading
Partial GlobalBeacon tracking available to Qatar immediately
Even though the GlobalBeacon flight-tracking service announced by an Aireon-FlightAware partnership last week won’t be fully operational unt... Continue Reading
Aireon still targets early 2018 operations despite SpaceX delay
Aireon still expects to begin offering space-based ADS-B air traffic management surveillance data feeds to all its air navigation service pr... Continue Reading
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