Bombardier predicted in its annual Commercial Aircraft Market Forecast released this week that 13,100 new aircraft in the 20-149 seat range will be needed through 2030, which is an increase of 300 units over its previous 20-year forecast. Bombardier reported that the total value of those aircraft is approximately $639 billion.
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US Airways President Scott Kirby said that despite its net loss of $114 million in the first-quarter that it will see “strong performance” this summer, and expects to reach double-digit year-over-year growth in May.
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Like the rest of the aviation industry, the nation’s large fractional-ownership companies were hard hit by the recession. Now, the market has stabilized, business is improving and furloughed pilots are being recalled.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation reported in a press release that U.S. airlines carried 50.1 million scheduled domestic and international passengers in February 2011. That marks a 2.9 percent increase from February 2010. The February 2011 passenger total was also 0.6 percent above that of two years ago in February 2009.
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CitationAir, a subsidiary of Cessna Aircraft Company, announced that it sent recall notices to all of the pilots it had placed on furlough during the economic downturn according to a company press release.
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ATP has graduates of our flight training programs flying for virtually every airline in this country, and once in a while they write to share what their flying jobs are all about. Chris Carey is an exceptionally talented pilot who writes from time to time to tell us what it is like to live the dream of being an airline pilot here in the United States. The following is the final part of a three part story about a day spent flying for the airlines:
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ATP has graduates of our flight training programs flying for virtually every airline in this country, and once in a while they write to share what their flying jobs are all about. Chris Carey is an exceptionally talented pilot who writes from time to time to tell us what it is like to live the dream of being an airline pilot here in the United States. The following is the second part of a three part story about a day flying for the airlines:
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ATP has graduates of our flight training programs flying for virtually every airline in this country, and once in a while they write to share what their flying jobs are all about. Chris Carey is an exceptionally talented pilot who writes from time to time to tell us what it is like to live the dream of being an airline pilot here in the United States. The following is the first part of a three part story about a day in Chris’s life flying for the airlines:
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