Airbus said this week it was fined around €15.86 million over “past matters relating to the use of intermediaries in sales campaigns prior to 2012”. The agreement with France’s financial prosecutions office came after the manufacturer was accused of bribery in Libya and Kazakhstan over a decade ago – which…
Summer 2013 will see talks begin between the EU and the United States on producing a free-trade agreement that would give birth to the largest free trade zone on the planet, significant enough to add 0.5% or €86bn to overall EU GDP and 0.4% or €65bn to the US economy…
The Aeronautical Repair Station Association (ARSA) warned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) against further muddying the rules governing aviation maintenance. In comments submitted Nov. 19 to the FAA’s rewrite of 14 CFR part 145, the association expressed concerns the agency’s proposed rulemaking unnecessarily complicates the regulatory framework. While the FAA…
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has determined that pilots on a Tiger Airways aircraft used incorrect altitude information and the airline had an inconsistent safety management system, which contributed to the airline being grounded. Following the investigation of a low approach of a Tiger A320 aircraft into Melbourne Airport…
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such as IPv6 and Avionics Full…
UN aviation body ICAO will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada. A task force is needed due to an increasing reliance on interconnected IT systems with operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and protocols such as IPv6 and Avionics Full…
Are you having a problem with OEMs starting to charge for intellectual property rights (IP) rights with regard to continued airworthiness? You are not alone. Component repair and overhaul is where the first salvo of litigation will strike this year in the battle to stem anti-competitive practices in our industry…
We understand that there are some things you cannot leave to chance and the annual get together in Dublin is one of those things. For this reason we have already made sure that the core of finance and leasing are in attendance and there are more airlines than have ever…
It is mid-week and many of you will be getting air show fatigue by about now. For many getting to the show itself is very hard work indeed, it seems that unless you are flying, you are very lucky indeed to have a trouble free run of it seemingly from…
Justice Mark Schrager of the Quebec Superior Court has approved the payment to some 2,665 retained and terminated employees of bankrupt aircraft maintenance company Aveos Fleet Performance of $5.8-million in unpaid wages, along with $450,000 in employer payroll contributions. Each employee will be entitled to a maximum of $2,000. The…
On March 13, Fenech & Fenech Advocates seized an A320-211 from a Lufthansa Technik workshop on the island of Malta for non payment of dues related to the lease of the aircraft. Although the two parties have since negotiated a settlement and the aircraft returned to the airline concerned, the…
The Canadian federal government says it will seek a legal opinion on whether Air Canada broke any obligations that led to the closure of Aveos Fleet Performance Inc. A House of Commons committee was also convened on Tuesday to look into the closure and whether it means the former Crown…
