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Continental employees, former Concorde officials to stand trial in Paris crash

Friday July 4, 2008

Eight years to the month after the crash of an Air France Concorde began the countdown to the end of the age of supersonic air travel, a French judge ruled that five individuals as well as Continental Airlines should stand trial for manslaughter in the disaster. [more]

Friday July 4, 2008

Germanwings will phase out four of its 29 A319s Nov. 1. "We don't want to make the mistake of expanding at any cost. The business of our industry has changed, especially the high fuel prices. We have to be profitable. That's why we have to reduce our fleet," MD Thomas Winkelmann said. It was not clear whether any destinations will be removed from the network or if there will be any employee reductions.

DOT IG alleges lax FAA oversight let Southwest violate ADs repeatedly

Thursday July 3, 2008

US FAA was guilty of "serious lapses" in its regulatory oversight of Southwest Airlines, allowing airworthiness directive "noncompliance issues within WN's maintenance program to go undetected for years," leading to repeated violations, the US Dept. of Transportation Inspector General alleged in a scathing report released yesterday. [more]

Air Arabia's Nepalese subsidiary to suspend operations

Wednesday July 2, 2008

FlyYeti.com, the low-cost joint venture between Air Arabia and Yeti Airlines operating out of Kathmandu, will suspend operations on July 16 owing to what it called "difficult operating conditions in Nepal and a presently opaque regulatory environment" and political conditions that made it impossible to guarantee the renewal of aircraft operating leases that expire this month. Launched in January, FlyYeti.com said it "has enjoyed a pleasant performance" and 80% load factors and that it "will continue to closely monitor the political and market conditions in the country and hopes to resume operations when those conditions stabilize."

Wednesday July 2, 2008

Rockwell Collins reached agreement with Xiamen Airlines to provide a suite of avionics for 12 737NGs with an option for 25 more. Technology includes WXR-2100 MultiScan Hazard Detection System aimed at reducing pilot workload and enhancing safety. Deliveries are scheduled to begin next year and continue through 2013.

US, Europe sign aviation safety agreement

Tuesday July 1, 2008

US FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell and European Commission VP-Transport Antonio Tajani yesterday signed a safety agreement that "broadens and deepens the regulatory collaboration between the FAA and its European counterparts in EASA and national authorities," FAA said in a statement. [more]

Twelve killed in separate Sudan crashes

Tuesday July 1, 2008

Sudan suffered two fatal freighter crashes in recent days. Last Friday a Juba Air Cargo An-12BK crashed in "poor weather" on its way from Khartoum to Juba, according to Flight Safety Foundation's Aviation Safety Network, killing seven of the eight people onboard. The aircraft first flew in 1968. Yesterday, an Ababeel Aviation Il-76TD crashed on takeoff in Khartoum, killing all four onboard.

Helvetic to end scheduled service

Tuesday July 1, 2008

Helvetic Airways, based in Zurich, will stop operating all scheduled flights at the end of October owing to high fuel prices and instead will use its four F100s on ACMI and charter flights. Three of its aircraft already are on wet-lease with Swiss International Air Lines. Helvetic's scheduled routes to Brindisi, Catania, Lamezia Terme, Palermo and Jerez de la Frontera will be closed this fall. It said all 125 employees will remain on staff. It launched operations in 2002.

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