- Happy 25th Birthday to Changi Airport![Jul. 03, 2006]
Changi Airport is paying tribute to long-serving airport organisations and staff as it celebrates its silver jubilee.
- Adelaide Airport Powder Result[Jul. 04, 2006]
The suspicious powder which forced Adelaide Airport in Australia into lockdown and 80 people to take decontamination showers was a synthetic dye.
- Low-cost Catair Gears Up for Operations[Jul. 03, 2006]
Catair, the new low-cost airline created by Iberia, is reportedly expected to invest 120 million euros up to 2009 to become one of the biggest carriers in Spain. (7/3/2006)
- Boeing to Pay $828m to Settle Scandals[Jul. 03, 2006]
BOEING said it had reached a final agreement with the US Department of Justice following two procurement scandals which led to the ousting of one chief executive and a prison term for its former chief financial officer.
- Heads Roll at EADS, Airbus as CEO Resign[Jul. 03, 2006]
Embattled EADS Co-CEO Noel Forgeard and Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert resigned Sunday under pressure from EADS shareholders Lagardere Group, DaimlerChrysler and the French government (ATWOnline, June 30).Forgeard will be succeeded by Louis Gallois, head of French government-owned railway SNCF, while Humbert will be succeeded by Christian Streiff, deputy CEO of French building materials group Saint-Gobain. Thomas Enders will remain as co-CEO of EADS and has been nominated as chairman of the Airbus Shareholder Committee.
- AeroMexico, ILFC Arrange Dreamliner Deal[Jun. 30, 2006]
AeroMexico will lease three 787-8s from International Lease Finance Corp., with deliveries beginning in 2010.The aircraft will replace 767s on leases set to expire and will be used on flights to Europe and Asia. ILFC has 20 787s on firm order.
- Virgin Blue Goes Green with New Engines[Jun. 29, 2006]
Virgin Blue has ordered a new generation of more efficient and environmentally friendly engines worth $US100 million ($136 million) to power its next batch of Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
- Jet Airways Postpones Amritsar Flights[Jun. 27, 2006]
The much expected direct flight from the holy city of Amritsar to London of Jet Airways, which was scheduled to take off from the international Rajasansi Airport on June 28, has been postponed indefinitely.
- Doomed Flight NOT Sent Storm Alert[Jun. 28, 2006]
AIR traffic controllers did not pass on a significant weather warning received more than two hours before a plane carrying cattle baron Peter Menegazzo was ripped apart by thunderstorms in regional NSW last year.
- MAIR Holdings Reported a Loss of $82.8m[Jun. 27, 2006]
MAIR Holdings, parent of Mesaba Airlines and Big Sky Airlines, reported a loss of $82.8 million in a fiscal year ended March 31 that turned on the bankruptcy of its primary subsidiary last fall (ATWOnline, Oct. 14, 2005).