Articles

• Pierre de Fermor May 8, 2012

  Dubai’s Emirates eyes further US expansion - chairman

  ArabianBusiness.com  -  Dubai’s Emirates Airline is planning to expand its US operations, with Chicago and Florida on its radar for new routes, the airline’s chairman said. “The bilateral (agreements) between the UAE and ...

• Pierre de Fermor May 6, 2012

  WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Selling Emirates Airline could “make sense”

  ArabianBusiness.com  -  Sir Maurice Flanagan, executive vice chairman and one of the founders of Emirates Airline, has revealed that “it would make sense” to sell the airline in the future, in order to help service ...

• David Wheatley April 20, 2012

  Security for the Next Generation of Connected Aircraft - A380, A350 & B787

  Comments on Runway Girls Blog on the subject of  ‘Connectivity crossover and the case for cockpit security’ do highlight an interesting debate on the subject of security for the new generation or eEnabled aircraft. This ...

• Francis Spranza January 9, 2012

  The Role of Emergency Response Planning in SMS

  by Professor Francis G Spranza, MA, President,Spranza Inc. Today as more and more aviation administrators make the transition from a traditional safety model to the organization-wide approach of Safety management Systems (SMS), developers should ...

• Francis Spranza April 17, 2012

  The 32 billion dollar dilemma

  Each year, throughout the world some 600,000 to 800,000 women, young girls, men and boys are trafficked into slavery throughout the world.Human trafficking has become the second most common criminal activity following ...

• Pierre de Fermor April 10, 2012

  Etihad Airways nears USD1 billion revenue as quarterly growth slightly outpaces capacity

  Capa on 5th April 2012  -  Following Etihad’s first annual profit, the Abu Dhabi-based airline reported revenue jumped 28% year-on-year for the three months to 31-Mar-2012, to a record USD989 million. The increase corresponds to ...

• Pierre de Fermor March 24, 2012

  Technology may be eroding pilot skills

  Jon Hilkevitch - Chicago Tribune  - March 19, 2012 Automation in the cockpit of commercial airliners has flown full circle over the past half century, leading experts to raise concerns about the erosion of manual piloting skills ...

• Pierre de Fermor March 21, 2012

  Kingfisher Airlines to stop all international flights from March 25

  Channelnewsasia.com  -  NEW DELHI: Kingfisher Airlines decided Tuesday to suspend all international flights from March 25 and further curtail domestic operations, even as the Government warned the ailing carrier that its flying licence could be ...

• Pierre de Fermor March 20, 2012

  Air Canada seeks ruling on flurry of pilot sick calls

  By Brent Jang on The Globe and Mail  -  A surge in sick calls from Air Canada pilots, along with morning fog and a fire at the country’s largest airport, led to snarled travel schedules ...

• Pierre de Fermor February 8, 2012

  Global Airline Capacity Grows for 9th Consecutive Month Half of the World's Top 10 Growing Airports in Asia Pacific

  (Chicago, February 6, 2012) The growth in scheduled flights worldwide continues again in February with airlines providing 5% more flights. In line with the general worldwide trend for larger aircraft, this translates to a slightly ...