Airbus already has developed a strategy to counter an internally expected move by labour unions to organize the A320 final assembly line that opens later this year in Alabama. “I don’t think there’s any question that organised labour will want to try to approach our employees there,” Alan McArtor, chairman and chief executive of the…
Portlanders have a tradition when visiting their Oregon airport: taking pictures of their feet. It’s not to show off their shoes but rather what’s under them. They are documenting the famous PDX carpet: a loud, decidedly ’80s geometric pattern over a vast sea of teal. The carpet, it is said, is based on the way…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harrison Ford, who recently crashed his vintage airplane on a Los Angeles golf course, is returning to the skies — at least with his voice. National Geographic Studios announced Thursday that Ford will narrate a documentary being released next month called “Living in the Age of Airplanes.” The giant-screen film that…
UNITED STATES – A father and daughter team flew together for the first time in an American Airlines commercial airliner from Chicago to Dallas and then to Orange County on Wednesday This was the first time this has ever happened for American Airlines and in the United States. READ FULL STORY Father/Daughter Fly Commercial Airliner
A breakup may be Bombardier Inc.’s best option for gaining liftoff. Shares of the US$3.5 billion maker of planes and high-speed trains have slumped almost 40 percent in a year, while rivals such as Boeing Co. and Airbus Group NV rallied. Delays and cost overruns and delays on the new CSeries jetliner dragged Bombardier to…
In the future, a fleet of heavy transport aircraft will reportedly be capable of moving a strategic unit of 400 Armata tanks, with ammunition, to anywhere in the world. And probably at hypersonic speed, enabling Russia to mount a global military response. According to a new design specification from the Military-Industrial Commission in Moscow, a…
Korean Air, the flag carrier of South Korea, has announced a new codeshare agreement with Aerolíneas Argentinas on the Seoul-New York-Buenos Aires and Seoul-São Paulo-Buenos Aires routes. The new codeshare on the route via New York will commence on March 25th 2015 and the route via São Paulo will take effect after April upon obtaining…
