The News Review:
- Company victim of aviation slump
- Aviation Lobbyists Want Air-Traffic Funds From Govt
- Delta extends maintenance deal for 2 carriers
- Bird nets for Abilene airport hangars
- N Korea ‘preparing rocket launch’
- Community college partners with SIUC aviation programs
Company victim of aviation slump
BBC News
" Mr ´ Muilleoir continued: "He was talking of course about the CEs of Detroit motor companies who travelled to (Washington) DC to give evidence to a congressional committee in three separate corporate jets. "Since that happened not only has the bama presidency ruled out the use of bailout monies for corporate jets but it has sent a shudder through corporate America and made almost everyone drop their jet-buying plans. " ‘Long hard summer’Two of the largest makers of general-aviation aircraft in the US Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft – have launched advertising campaigns to tell business executives to ignore criticism and keep buying planes. However two companies have dropped plans to buy jets. In the US Citigroup cancelled a $50m executive jet and in the UK Royal Bank of Scotland scrapped a new corporate jet. The aviation website planetalking. com said figures for 2008 showed it was the worse year for cutbacks in the aerospace industry since 2001.
Aviation Lobbyists Want Air-Traffic Funds From Govt
Wall Street Journal
) By Darrell A. Hughes f DW JNES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTN (Dow Jones)–Aviation advocates are aggressively lobbying Congress to supply funding that will help airlines in revamping the U. air traffic control system but they decline to say how much the airline industry would contribute to the aeronautic overhaul. “It’s premature to make any commitments one way or the other as to exactly where the money is going to come from and in what proportion” Air Transport Association President Jim May said. The head of the trade group comprising the principal U.
Delta extends maintenance deal for 2 carriers
Forbes
The contracts mark the third extension of Delta’s work for World and North American which are owned by Global Aviation Holdings. com%2Ffeeds%2Fap%2F2009%2F04%2F02%2Fap6249560.
Bird nets for Abilene airport hangars
USA Today
Employees at Eagle Aviation Services noticed birds have been invading their work space. KTXS-TV reports the company’s hangars which are open most of the time are prime targets for birds swooping into the buildings and pecking at the ceilings. The Development Corp. of Abilene on Monday approved spending $125000 to install bird nets and to repair the ceilings. Crew chief Fernando Franco on Tuesday told The Associated Press that Eagle Aviation has four hangars at Abilene Regional Airport and works on planes operated by American Eagle.
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N Korea ‘preparing rocket launch’
BBC News
The North has threatened immediate retaliation over any intervention. Pyongyang has also warned that any attempts to impose UN sanctions would be seen as a hostile act. Favourable weather North Korea has told the International Civil Aviation rganisation that it will launch the rocket only between 0200GMT and 0700GMT during the five-day launch window. bservers say North Korea will very likely stick to this commitment firing the rocket at the first sign of good weather conditions during the given times.
Community college partners with SIUC aviation programs
SIU – Daily Egyptian
John Cotter interim director of aviation technologies at SIUC said $4. 5 billion would be used to build a facility that would add a new hangar classrooms and labs to the Cairo Airport. Cotter said the idea was hatched a year and a half ago when Larry Peterson president of SCC and his staff came to view SIUC’s Aviation Technologies program. SIUC students and SCC students would use the proposed extension center for aviation coursework. Peterson said the program would be a two-plus-two program meaning a student would take two years of classes at Shawnee and continue on to earn a bachelor’s degree at SIUC.