Budget airline, Tiger Airways, based in Melbourne, Australia, has just announced that it will be purchasing to 2 new Airbus A320 planes that will run out of Avalon Airport. This move is expected to create about 100 airline jobs in Avalon, and the potential for many more across the region, as this announcement has encouraged the airport’s plans for growth starting with a $10 million terminal upgrade. This news was supported by Linfox Airports’ CEO, David Fox, as he told the media that Melbourne would no longer be dominated by a monopoly airline. It was also welcomed by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Jacinta Allan. Tiger has further solidified itself as the low cost airline in Australia, and with the multi-million Dollar expansion, they hope to gain more passengers. Compared with Tu...

During March, Alaska Airlines, a subsidiary of the Alaska Air Group, reported that its load factor increased to 84.5 percent from 81.6 percent the year before. The load factor is the percentage of paying passengers occupying the available seats. They were also on time more often during the past year, jumping from 70.2 percent to 87.2 percent. The airline also reported that the number of revenue passenger miles increased from 1.56 billion in March 2009 to 1.65 billion, which means it has risen by 5.8 percent. The increases are not just for Alaska Airlines, but their sister, Horizon Air has also seen an increase in revenue passenger miles by 6.6 percent, making it 204 million. Horizon’s load factor was also affected, rising to 73.3 percent from 69.5 percent of last year. Their on-time perf...

Virgin America, which started its flights in 2007, plans to expand its fleet by about 12 planes each year, according to the president and CEO, David Cush. Starting off, is the lease of 9 new airbus A 320s which will be offering daily flights to and from Toronto and Orlando Florida. The company recently went through a restructuring of its stake holders and was given $70 million in debt refinancing. The flights to Toronto Pearson International Airport are expected to start as early as June departing from Los Angeles and San Francisco International Airports. Flights to Orlando will start on August 19th also departing from Los Angeles and San Francisco. The airline currently flies to four east coast destinations, namely Washington’s Dulles Airport, Kennedy International Airport in New York, ...

With the 2010 Fifa Soccer World Cup just a few months away, South Africa has been upgrading all of its main airports in anticipation of the millions of tourists expected to arrive in June. The airports are completed or are due to be completed by the end of the month. With the upgrades, many jobs have been created over the last few years, but the completed airport terminals and aprons will now be ready to create many other airport jobs. OR Tambo International Airport, known as Ortia, cost about $2.3 billion and is 90 percent complete with the 7 new aircraft aprons to be completed next month along with the multi-story parkade. The airport central terminal was completed in December and now has the capacity for 28 million passengers per year. The operational plans are due to be completed in Ma...

British Airways are busy building an energy plant that hopes to produce jet fuel out of wastage and this is expected to create up to 1200 airline jobs within the first 2 years. BA says that the plant, to be located in east London, will produce two percent of the amount of fuel needed to fly from London Heathrow, whilst from London City it will produce twice the amount. There are 500 000 tons of waste that can be used every year to make about 16 million gallons of fuel. This will help the environment greatly, as it will prevent a huge amount of waste from going to the landfill. This normally produces methane gas which is said to be more potent and damaging a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. United States company, Solena Group, has agreed to build the energy plant and BA has agreed to buy...

With the terrible falling share prices in 2009, things are finally looking up for United Airlines and their parent company UAL Corp. Recent passenger unit revenue rose by 9.5 percent and this is good for the entire industry. At one point United Airlines, the largest airline in the country dropped to below the industry standard. What this did was make people think that the entire industry was falling. This was also more evident as United Airlines was the most prominent international premium business class carrier. When you look at the passenger unit prices you will see that they have been increasing steadily since there was the possibility of the industry sinking. This would not have been allowed to happen and the investors started pumping more money into the airlines. With the various boos...

Things are picking up for many United States airlines as the low fuel costs helped them to profit this last quarter. Continental Airlines and Southwest Airlines were two of the major improvers in share prices with Southwest gaining by 2.8 percent in the afternoon trading on Thursday. The Chairman of Continental, Jeff Smisek, noted that while the airline was seeing a slight improvement, it would take a long time before they reached a full year’s profitability. With the increased number of corporate travelers, AMR, American Airline’s parent company, have predicted that this will signify a huge turnaround in air travel in 2010. With the fourth quarter improving markedly on the third quarter of 2009, the 2010 year is expected to be a much more profitable one as the recession shows signs of...

There are many people in the world who would love to get into an aircraft and fly for a living. This dream, unfortunately, only comes true for some people, and for the rest, we have to be content with taking other airline and airport jobs such as being an air traffic controller. This is an important job without which planes and other aircraft would not be able to take off and land at certain airports. Most air traffic controllers are employed by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), and some are employed by the actual airport committee. You will require very particular skills if you hope to take your air traffic controller examinations and pass the courses that you will need to take so that you can be fully qualified. Most air traffic controller job training can be done at an aviation...

If you think that flying is a boring and tiresome experience, then think again. Most airports nowadays have plenty of activities for the entire family and lots of attractions. Here are just some of the best US airport attractions that you can check out when you are next in these cities: Las Vegas offers visitors a unique casino experience as soon as you land. You don’t have to travel to the heart of Vegas to win some money, but you can play some of the nearly 1300 slot machine available while you wait for your next flight. These slot machines have generated about $30 million for the McCarran Airport over the last year. The next airport worth mentioning is the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Here you can relax in true Southern style on one of the many white rocking chairs inside ...

Thanks to a recent certification in the global aerospace sector, Kelly Aviation Center is now able to compete for more work in the commercial aircraft engine market, meaning that plenty of new aviation engineering jobs may be in the cards fairly soon. Kelly Aviation has been working on a variety of aircraft engines for many years with the standard AS9100 certification, which is required by all aviation engineering companies as a quality management system. Kelly Aviation Center has taken this one step further with their exceptional quality and attention to detail for airworthiness, reliability, and safety earning them the AS9110. They are one of a very select group to be awarded with this certification, and they can now work in the field supplying military and commercial aircraft repair, ma...