Posted on March 16th, 2019
Beechcraft has sold a King Air C90GTx aircraft to Chinese state-owned company Beidahuang General Aviation Beechcraft Corporation, part of the Textron Aviation segment of Textron Inc., announced the sale of a Beechcraft King Air C90GTx to the state-owned Beidahuang General Aviation Company of Harbin, China. The companies held a signing ceremony at the Asian Business Aviation…
Posted on February 28th, 2019
If across-the-board federal spending cuts become reality on Friday, the resulting reductions in air traffic control and airport security staffing are certain to have a seriously disruptive impact on air travel, according to industry leaders. GBTA: Serious consequences The automatic cuts would be “bad news for the millions of business travelers each month,” said Michael…
Posted on February 28th, 2019
Uncomfortable seats topped the list of annoyances for air travel, according to an annual survey by TripAdvisor. The survey of 2,000 people also found that travelers disliked baggage fees the most out of all fees for air travel. Read the full story in USA Today You can avoid all the hassles of commercial air travel by…
Posted on February 27th, 2019
In a recent survey conducted by Washington, D.C.-based researchers Penn, Schoen & Berland for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), 90 percent of the 1,206 Americans questioned said the current policy of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on knives aboard an airplane should not be changed. The survey was conducted in response to TSAadministrator John…
Posted on February 26th, 2019
The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday against U.S. participation in the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS), setting up an international confrontation between Western Europe and the rest of the world. Last week, the U.S. House sent a bipartisan congressional delegation to Montreal to meet with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) leaders, EU representatives…
Posted on February 26th, 2019
But he never learned to drive a car. The retirement of Pope Benedict XVI came as a surprise to Catholics around the world, and his retirement ceremony will likely be full of pomp and circumstance, broadcast live around the world. It’s less well known that when the Pope flies off into retirement aboard the papal…
Posted on February 25th, 2019
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood stressed Sunday that the Obama administration was not exaggerating the effects of looming sequestration. LaHood, a former GOP congressman, had said at a White House briefing on Friday that the $85 billion in automatic cuts set to start going into effect on March 1 would require furloughs at the Federal Aviation…
