Source: A4A Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, joined a coalition of travel-industry groups in a letter on Friday urging White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha to lift the requirement for pre-departure testing for vaccinated passengers traveling to the United States as well as the federal mask mandate. Download [76.62 KB]
Source: Association of Flight Attendants - CWA AFA Spirit Airlines Flight Attendants picketed outside of Orlando International Airport (MCO) to demand Spirit Airlines acknowledge the concerns of flight crew and stop violating the Flight Attendants' contract. The picket comes just one week after Spirit Airlines canceled just over 30% of their flights due to weather in Florida last weekend. This mass cancellation is Spirit’s fourth since August, and with each operational meltdown, passengers and Flight Attendants are left stranded without answers. With staff shortages already straining the system, Spirit Airlines does not have the staff to quickly recover from mass cancellations and delays, which leaves Spirit Flight Attendants burdened with picking up the pieces. Flight Attendants are on the frontlines [...]
Source: ACI Initial data shows many previous busiest airports have now re-joined top ranks as recovery continues Airports Council International (ACI) World has today published the top 10 busiest airports worldwide for 2021 showing encouraging signs of traffic recovery as many previous busiest airports re-join top ranks. The world airport rankings are based on the preliminary compilation of 2021 global data from airports around the world. Due to ACI's reach as the trade association of the world's airports, the rankings reflect the most updated airport data used by the industry and include passenger traffic, cargo volumes, and aircraft movements. Passenger traffic Total global passengers in 2021 is estimated to be close to 4.5 billion, representing an increase of almost 25% [...]
Source: ALA News The fifth largest air and space fair in the world, and the most important in Latin America, for the first time in four years brought together 46 countries, more than 420 exhibitors and almost 200 official delegations from around the world Among its objectives was to promote the development of space and the security of the aviation industry, both military and civil With great success and having fulfilled the mission of repositioning itself as the fifth exhibition of its kind worldwide and the most important in Latin America, the 2022 International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) concluded in Santiago de Chile. This year's version, which, according to its biannual schedule, should have been held in 2020 but [...]
Source: ACI World Memorandum of Cooperation will bring greater cooperation aimed at airport safety and compliance ACI World and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) that will see the two organizations working together on various programs and initiatives to enhance airport safety and aerodrome certification, primarily in the Latin America region. Bringing together ACI World as trade association of the world's airports and EASA as Europe's air transport safety regulator, this arrangement will enable ACI World and EASA to share resources, knowledge, and data to realize concrete results and benefits for aviation safety, security, and the overall sustainability of the aviation system. This collaboration will include: Providing assistance to airports in the [...]
Source: ALTA Linkedin feed Jose Ricardo Botelho, CEO and Executive Director of the Latin American & Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), joined the panel “Driving Innovation for a Sustainable Future: From eVTOLs to Green Airports” moderated by Pilar W., Americas Air Transport Editor at Flight Global with the participation of James Dorris, CEO of ODIS Aviation; Luiz Castanha, Sales Director of SITA and Dr. Rafael Echevarne, Director General of Airports Council International – Latin America and Caribbean (ACI-LAC), as speakers. The panel discussed the challenges on regulations, certifications, infrastructure, safety and air traffic management when it comes to the technological progress and its many applications that will help us reduce emissions, noise and costs According to the Economic Commission for [...]
Source: ALTA The Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA), represented by its Executive Director & CEO, José Ricardo Botelho, together with the Secretary General of the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission (LACAC), Jaime Binder, held meetings with the Minister of Transports and Telecommunications of Chile, Mr. Juan Carlos Muñoz Abogabir, and the Undersecretary of Tourism of Chile, Mrs. Verónica Kunze Neubauer. During these meetings, both organizations, which represent the public and private sectors, agreed to highlight that Chile has great tourism potential and that more than 90% of its population is already fully vaccinated, which generates exceptional health safety conditions. “After two years of travel restrictions in the region, the phenomenon known as “revenge tourism” is beginning to [...]
Source: IATA The International Air Transport Association (IATA) successfully brought together more than 300 representatives of the aviation community from across the Americas at its 12th edition of the Wings of Change Americas Conference. The two-day event held in Santiago de Chile on 6 and 7 April 2022, provided a platform for the various stakeholders in the aviation value chain to set the scene and parameters on how the industry can be reshaped into a more sustainable future as it emerges from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In his opening remarks, Peter Cerdá, IATA’s Regional Vice President for the Americas, touched on the key items which need to be considered in moving the industry forward following the worst crisis [...]
Source: US Department of Transportation The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released U.S. airlines’ February Fuel Cost and Consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.14 billion gallons of fuel, 5.4% less fuel than in January 2022 and 11.4% less than in pre-pandemic February 2019. The cost per gallon of fuel in February 2022 ($2.60) was up 24 cents (10.2%) from January 2022 and up 70 cents (31.3%) from February 2019. Total February 2022 fuel expenditure ($2.98B) was up 4.5% from January 2022 and up 16.2% from pre-pandemic February 2019. At $2.60, the cost per gallon of fuel in February was the highest since October 2014’s $2.68. Also noteworthy in February 2022 was the 55.8% [...]
Source: IATA The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomed the continued focus on diversity and inclusion of airlines based in the Americas region, illustrated by their renewed commitment to the industry-wide 25by2025 initiative, in which participating companies commit to increase the number of women in senior positions and in under-represented jobs and report annually on key diversity metrics. IATA’s Wings of Change Conference Americas, held in Santiago, Chile, featured a panel discussion on gender diversity under the banner of “Breaking the Airline Industry's Glass Ceiling”. This included a signing ceremony of the 25by2025 commitment at which Azul and GOL joined those 24* airlines based in the Americas region, who have already pledged their support. Moreover, Airports Council International Latin America [...]
