Six major aviation associations yesterday jointly published, “Know Before You Go,” a number of best communications and business practices designed to make FBO pricing more transparent to customers. The KBYG list includes potential prices, fees and charges pilots might face at an airport. The awareness campaign is designed to improve the overall customer experience. “While […]
It would be tough for anyone even remotely close to the aviation industry not to realize there is a shortage of well-qualified pilots here in the United States. The effects of the age-65 retirement adjustment in 2009 really began grabbing airline pilots out of the cockpit the past few years. Adding to the problem is […]
Delta Airlines added its first Airbus A220 to its fleet Friday at a ceremony in Mirabel, Quebec making the company the first airline in North America to operate the new airliner. The A220 delivery is the most recent investment in Delta’s fleet modernization program, which aims to replace 20% of the airline’s older, and less-efficient […]
Garmin last week received an FAA supplemental type certification (STC) for installation of the GFC 500 autopilot on select Beechcraft Bonanza and Debonair aircraft including models 33, A33, B33, C33, C33A, E33, E33A, E33C. Some F33, F33C and G33 serial numbers are however, excluded from the approval list. Garmin said it’s working on a GFC […]
With the understanding that building airplanes is just one facet of its overall business, Cirrus Aircraft has launched what it calls Cirrus Services, a division “created to build lifetime relationships with customers by addressing their needs before, during and after initial aircraft ownership,” the company said. The new business unit combines flight training, service and […]
The crash of a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max 8 into the Java Sea not long after takeoff from Jakarta has stirred many more questions than answers. The accident, early Monday morning U.S. time, claimed the lives of nearly 190 people on board. Monday’s accident is the first for one of Boeing new 737 Max […]
Most of the industry knows there’s a serious shortage of pilots, mechanics, dispatchers, even air traffic controllers. But Salt Lake City-based Aviation Business Consultants also sees that shortage in their own sector, aviation marketing. Trying to bring fresh new minds to the community that focuses on selling the products and services the industry produces, ABCI […]
Textron Aviation has added a subsidiary in Canada to increase the support of its growing fleet of aircraft. Textron Aviation Canada will bring service to the area with a direct connection to the parent company, just as the Textron Aviation global service network has done. As part of the establishment of Textron Aviation Canada, the […]
Spend a few years as a pilot and aircraft checkouts become second nature, those hours spent with an instructor to learn the ins and outs of a new machine so you can head off toward that next dramatic destination on your own. Every once in a while though the act itself of checking out becomes […]
The B-29 Doc Hangar and Education Center at the Wichita Eisenhower National Airport (ICT) is nearly complete. Doc’s friends showed off the 32,000 square foot facility in a recently released video and the organization is expected to take possession in early November, when the maintenance crew will begin the winter maintenance operations for the recently […]
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