- Don't Call Them "Mate": Virgin Australia Cabin Crew Given New Etiquette Rules on How to Treat Business Passengers[Jul. 22, 2012]
Wine-appreciation, grooming and body language classes are to be served up to Virgin Australia cabin staff.
- China Edges Open Its Low-Altitude Airspace[Jul. 23, 2012]
China will further relax its ban on low-altitude airspace for private use, China's top economic planning body announced Friday.
- Nigeria Calls for Air Travel Safety in Africa[Jul. 20, 2012]
The Nigerian government has advised African countries to pursue the goal of Zero Accident and Zero Fatality in the continent's airspace and beyond.
- Americans on No-Fly List Allowed to Learn to Fly[Jul. 18, 2012]
U.S. citizens who are on the government's list of people banned from flying because they're considered terror threats are not prevented from learning how to fly in schools around the country, according to government regulations.
- Possible Pilot Shortage Raises Safety Concerns[Jul. 13, 2012]
An industry forecast that nearly half a million new airline pilots will be needed worldwide over the next 20 years as airlines expand their fleets has raised safety concerns that airlines will hire lower caliber pilots as they struggle to fill slots.
- Air India Pilots Decide to End Two-Month Strike[Jul. 03, 2012]
Hundreds of state-run Air India pilots agreed Tuesday to call off their nearly two-month strike after the airline management said it would consider their grievances "sympathetically".
- 80% Chinese Captains Are from CAFUC[Jun. 28, 2012]
Wu Xuyong, vice president of Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CAFUC), said that CAFUC is now world's largest flight training institution. It is a world famous school with 240,000 flight training hours annually, while the world's second largest flight training institution only has some two thirds training hours compared to CAFUC.
- Indonesian Airline's Fleet to Expand 8% Annually, Needs Pilots - Association[Jun. 27, 2012]
Indonesia's domestically driven economy is supporting the country's airlines in expanding its fleet, although the Southeast Asian nation needs to accelerate its push to groom more pilots, Indonesia National Air Carriers Association said Wednesday.
- Boeing Expands Flight Services Business in China[Jun. 18, 2012]
Boeing today announced it has expanded its Flight Services business in China, greatly enhancing training capacity for airlines in the region. With the introduction of an advanced 787 Dreamliner training suite for pilot and maintenance training, and a newly-installed 747-400 full-flight simulator, the company is tripling its offerings at the Boeing Flight Services Shanghai training campus. The new training devices join an existing 757/767 full-flight simulator at the facility.
- MA60 Full-Flight Simulator Exported to Indonesia[Jun. 15, 2012]
The first exported Chinese made high-level simulator arrived at Indonesia recently. This high-level MA60 full-flight simulator simulates the MA60 aircraft exported to Indonesia's Merpati Nusantara Airlines.