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Spike in unruly pax leads US airlines to add criminal charges
Airlines and unions in the United States are aiming to implement additional federal criminal charges against unruly passengers. The move comes as the air carriers observe a “growing escalation” of passengers’ disruptive behaviour onboard.
On June 21, 2021, Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), Airlines for America, and other unions sent a letter to the US Attorney General Merrick Garland, asking for “more be done to deter egregious passenger behavior, which is in violation of federal law”.
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Commercial

Abrupt changes in the Boeing team: Keating loses the role
Boeing has reportedly fired Tim Keating, the executive vice president of government operations, who had been working for the company for more than a decade.
The departure of Boeing’s veteran was reportedly revealed by the plane manufacturer‘s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dave Calhoun. Calhoun mentioned that the company was searching for a permanent replacement of Keating in an internal memorandum, seen by Reuters.
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Airlines

Air France and SNCF to operate an additional 7 “Train + Air” services
For over 25 years, Air France and SNCF French Railways have been offering their customers a service allowing them to combine train and air travel in the same reservation. Called “Train + Air”, it is used every year by more than 160,000 customers to and from Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Orly airports.
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British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) demands action from the UK government
BALPA urges Government to act now as research shows devastating effect on UK airlines and airports
UK aviation industry is the ‘hardest hit’ in Europe by restrictions on international travel, an analysis of official European air traffic data for June 2021 by The British Airline Pilots Association (BALPA) has revealed.
The analysis of data from European air traffic agency ‘Eurocontrol’ has been published by BALPA – the trade union for British pilots – ahead of a national Travel Day of Action on Wednesday (June 23).
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Indian court gives green light for Jet Airways revival
Two years after it ceased operations due to insolvency, Mumbai-based air carrier Jet Airways India has received the National Company Law Tribunal’s (NCLT) approval to resume operations.
On June 22, 2021, the Indian Court gave a green light for Kalrock Capital and Murari Lal Jalan consortium to revive the collapsed Indian air carrier. According to Indian media, the NTCL gave 90 days for the airline to figure out the issue with the former company’s slots with a possibility to approach the Court for extension of the term if needed.
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TUI joins battle for eased international travel restrictions
The parent company of German airline TUI, TUI Group expressed support to other British companies, including Virgin Atlantic and International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), in legal action against the government of the United Kingdom while seeking to ease the now-in-force air travel restrictions related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Delta Air Lines to hire 1,000 pilots to prevent flight crew shortage
Noticing an increase in the air travel demand, Delta Air Lines is strengthening its operational team. The American air carrier informed its current staff about the future plans of hiring more than 1,000 flight crew members.
The optimistic news came out on June 21, 2021. Delta Air Lines plans to expand the existing flight crew members’ team by adding more than 1,000 pilots by the summer of 2022 in order to avoid staffing issues when the demand recovers, as the company already faced a similar problem twice on Easter and Thanksgiving weekends in 2021.
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FedEx has retired the World’s last MD-10-10F
FedEx Express has retired the world’s last McDonnell Douglas MD-10-10F earlier this month. The last MD-10-10F flew its last flight from Memphis to Victorville for permanent storage on June 4, 2021.
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Airports

Dubai International Airport to target 28 million passengers in 2021?
Dubai International Airport (DXB) is reportedly aiming to reach 28 million passengers in an anticipated growth in international air travel demand.
"People think it will trickle back. I don't believe that. I believe it will be an absolute flood of demand when people get the confidence to travel again," Dubai Airports Chief Executive Paul Griffiths told Reuters.
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FAA awards $8 billion in grants to help US airports recover from COVID
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced that it is to award $8 billion in grants to “keep US airport workers employed, construction projects going and help US airports recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic”.
The funding for the grants comes from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 President Biden signed into law on March 11, 2021.
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DXB opens 24/7 laboratory for rapid COVID-19 tests
Dubai International Airport (DXB) has officially opened of one of the world’s largest and most modern airport labs for the on-site processing of COVID-19 RT PCR tests.
Located close to Terminal 2, the 20,000 square-foot laboratory is a dedicated facility for round-the-clock processing of RT-PCR test samples collected from passengers at DXB.
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Military

Antonov Airlines transports five Black Hawk helicopters from Poland to the Philippines on a single flight
Antonov Airlines safely transported five Sikorsky S-70i Black Hawk utility-helicopters on a single AN-124-100 flight from Poland to the Philippines.
The AN-124 completed the second consignment of the Polish-built helicopter under a government-to-government agreement from Rzeszów, Poland, to Angeles, the Philippines.
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Aviation Quote

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

- British Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood, regards plans to bomb the Black forest, 30 September 1939.


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