Another Qantas A380 milestone was reached in Hamburg, Germany, recently when the airline’s first aircraft flew for the first time in its new Qantas livery. VH-OQA (MSN014) took off with the aircraft’s new four-class cabin and systems subjected to flight conditions for the first time. Qantas has ordered 20 A380s. The airline will take delivery
TAM Cargo, the freight unit of TAM Linhas Aereas, inaugurates its largest freight terminal to date, in Manaus, Amazonas, which has an operational area of 2,160 square meters (three times the size of the former Manaus facility) and 540 square meters of administrative/commercial area. With more than 80 tons per day of storage capacity, the
Rolls-Royce has appointed Karin Ricketts as Manager, Corporate Communications, responsible for communications support of the company’s defense business in North America including Rolls-Royce North America Technologies Inc. – LibertyWorks.
Southwest Airlines appointed Kathleen Wayton as Vice President Strategy and Change Leadership. In her new position, Wayton will be responsible for providing executive leadership and direction for the Company’s Strategy, Change Leadership, and Portfolio Management Teams.
DAE Engineering and its StandardAero subsidiary have announced the consolidation of their leadership teams. As part of the realignment, Rob Mionis currently CEO of DAE Engineering, a business unit of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, will assume leadership of the combined management team and take on the additional position of President and CEO of StandardAero
Woodward Governor Company announced that Dennis Benning, Group Vice President, Engine Systems, will lead its new Airframe Systems business segment as President of Woodward MPC. Although Mr. Benning’s assignment will not officially begin until October 2008, when the acquisition of MPC Products Corporation will be completed, he will start working immediately with the transition team
UAL Corporation released that Donald Dillman has been named vice president of Operations Control. In this position, Dillman will oversee United’s Operations Control Center and have responsibility for decisions affecting more than 1,600 daily mainline flights. He will have operational management responsibilities for flight dispatch, system controllers, aircraft routers, maintenance workload planners, air traffic control
Czech Airlines won the tender for the provision of handling services to Luxair in Prague over the next two years. Luxair has offered its flights from Prague to Luxembourg since 1 August, six times weekly. Czech Airlines provides Luxair with all standard handling services, such as passenger handling and aircraft ramp handling. Czech Airlines provides
ABX Air has reached an agreement with DHL on severance and retention plans for impending job reductions. Following a period of voluntary reductions, ABX Air will serve Workers
The Board of Directors of Aer Lingus Group plc appointed Colm Barrington as Chairman of the Board. Mr Barrington will succeed John Sharman as Chairman. He will be appointed to the board in September and will then assume the role of Chairman. Colm Barrington is Chief Executive Officer and a director of Babcock and Brown
