Comair has slashed its fleet, flights and work force in the last seven years.
Russian R&D results in computer systems for optimising aircraft fleets, flight destinations, and ticket prices could become a factor of success, as well as IT designs for improving online booking systems and introducing a unified cargo registration standard.
The Australian airline grounded its entire Airbus A380 fleet after flight QF32 developed engine trouble just minutes into a flight to Sydney.
Governments around the world decided to ground the 737 MAX fleet after flight data showed a similar up and down pattern in the movements of Ethiopian Airways Flight 302 and investigators found a jackscrew in the wreckage of the plane in a position to raise the stabilizer to push the nose down.
NASA is making steady progress toward returning its shuttle fleet to flight so that construction of the International Space Station can resume, the NASA administrator, Sean O'Keefe, said on Friday.
The Sydney schoolboy has big plans for the airline he's dubbed "Oceania Express". He's assembling a fleet, assigning flight numbers and making major staffing decisions (including tapping his buddy Wolf to be his "vice-CEO").
One of the biggest concerns with aging aircraft is any unknown failure mechanism that could emerge with little or no warning, thus raising the concern that an unexpected phenomenon may suddenly jeopardize an entire fleet's flight safety, mission readiness, and/or support costs.
The company noted in a statement that it was working with investigators in the United States and Japan to find out what had gone wrong and had hundreds of engineers and technical experts "working around the clock with the sole focus of resolving the issue and returning the 787 fleet to flight status".
While praising Mr. O'Keefe, Representative Bart Gordon of Tennessee, ranking Democrat on the committee, said the next administrator faced problems like returning the shuttle fleet to flight and reconciling constrained budgets with Mr. Bush's goals of expanding human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
The $800 million increase that NASA would receive over its current $15.4 billion would include $300 million for extra expenses in returning the space shuttle fleet to flight after the Columbia disaster last year; other new money would go toward developing alternatives to the shuttles.
Inmarsat published a study conducted on its behalf by the London School of Economics LSEE) which looks into the cost savings of a connected fleet improving flight management, operations, and aircraft maintenance.
