Actualité aéronautique

Republic Airways Reports August 2009 Traffic

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

Republic Airways Holdings , today reported preliminary passenger traffic results for August 2009. The Company generated 1,068.2 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs), a 14.7% increase from the same month last year, while available seat miles (ASMs) increased 13.3%. Block hours were 66,741 in August 2009, a 9.7% increase from August 2008. Load factor was 78.5% versus 77.5% in August 2008. A total of 1,969,231 passengers were carried during the month, a 10.0% increase from the same month last year.

Research and Markets: Global Logistics - Couriers

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Logistics - Couriers" report to their offering.

NMI (Non-Manufacturing Index) at 48.4%; August Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®; Business Activity Index at 51.3%; New Orders Index at 49.9%; Employment Index at 43.5%

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

Economic activity in the non-manufacturing sector contracted in August, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Non-Manufacturing ISM Report On Business^®.

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces $2.25 Million Lockheed Martin Order For Q-70 Program

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, today announced that it secured orders valued at approximately $2.25 million from Lockheed Martin’s facility in Eagan, Minnesota. The orders were for quantities of GE Fanuc’s VME-7809 VMEbus single board computer and NETernity™ RM921 Ethernet switches for eventual deployment in the Lockheed Martin AN/UYQ-70 C4 (command, control, communications and computer) system. This brings the total orders received by GE Fanuc from Lockheed Martin for the Q-70 program to more than $5 million.

FIRST® Names Rockwell Collins Official Program Sponsor for the FIRST Tech Challenge Program

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a not-for-profit organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people’s interest and participation in science and technology, announced today that Rockwell Collins has been named the Official Program Sponsor for the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC). The announcement recognizes the distinct role Rockwell Collins will play as the primary official sponsor of FTC, the newest and fastest-growing FIRST program available to students in grades nine through twelve.

US Airways Reports August Traffic Results

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

US Airways Group, Inc. today announced August and year-to-date 2009 traffic results. Mainline revenue passenger miles (RPMs) for the month were 5.5 billion, down 3.9 percent versus August 2008. Capacity was 6.4 billion available seat miles (ASMs), down 3.8 percent versus August 2008. Passenger load factor for the month of August was 85.7 percent, or flat versus August 2008.

Pilot Freight Services Awarded Quest for Quality Award by Readers of Logistics Management Magazine

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

Pilot Freight Services, a worldwide provider of transportation and logistics services, today announced the company has been honored with the 2009 Quest for Quality™ Award from Logistics Management, the distinguished magazine for supply chain professionals. This marks the 20^th time Pilot has earned the esteemed Quest for Quality Award. The award recognizes overall service excellence in freight forwarding reader-based ratings in five areas: on-time performance, value, information technology, customer service, and equipment and operations.

TAM Files Amended 2007 Annual Report

transmise le 3 septembre 2009 par PRNewswire

TAM announced that it has filed an amended annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007 (the 2007 Amended Annual Report) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). The 2007 Amended Annual Report amends the annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007 that was originally filed with the SEC on June 25, 2008 primarily to restate our cash flow statement filed therewith, in order to eliminate the effects of a non-cash item relating to a transfer of spare parts between property, plant and equipment and inventories that was incorrectly reported on our cash flow statement. The 2007 Amended Annual Report can be accessed on our website () and the SEC's website ().

Chicago Becomes Second U.S. Destination for Etihad

transmise le 2 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has launched service to Chicago from its hub at Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.

William A. Schoneberger, Aviation Executive, Author and Historian, Dies in California at 83

transmise le 2 septembre 2009 par Business Wire

Author, historian and former aerospace executive William A. (Bill) Schoneberger has died at his home in Santa Barbara following a lengthy illness. He was 83.