In an effort to promote biofuels for use by aircraft, Portland International Airport has joined with the Northwest Aviation biofuels industry as part of the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest Project. Other companies involved in the project are the Port of Portland, Seattle-based Alaska Airlines (NYSE: ALK), Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA), Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Spokane International [...]
Airline Jobs
According to a recent survey, it seems as though the level of customer satisfaction for most airlines is improving with Southwest Airlines at the top of the list for the 17th year in a row. United Airlines brings up the rear. The survey was conducted by interviews with various passengers who were asked about the [...]
Since the closure of hundreds of airports all over Europe due to the “ash cloud” from the volcano eruption in Iceland in March 2010, the aviation industry has taken a huge knock and lost billions in revenue. Luckily things seen to be back on track and airlines, as well as airports are recovering as air [...]
Aviation is one of the top inventions the world has ever seen, and with air travel, comes a great many new jobs that were once obsolete. Many of these are in demand nowadays as air travel as literally taken off. Security jobs in airports, air traffic controllers, pilots and engineers are all necessary in ensuring [...]
The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has recently rented out its empty maintenance building which was previously rented out by Mesaba Airlines. This building in 125 thousand square feet, and will now be home to an aircraft repair shop branch of Pemco World Air Services offering 300 aviation maintenance jobs in the process. This company has [...]
If you have always wanted to travel and explore the world, but never knew how you were going to get there, you should find out more about becoming a flight attendant. Now, of course this is a hard aviation job, but flight attendants do get some of the best perks in the business, such as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
