IFALPA Daily News – 5 February 2014‏

Dear Colleagues,
 
The IFALPA Daily News is now available online.
Here are today’s top headlines. To read more, click on the title:
Pilot shortage forces Delta to bring back furloughed pilots

A report in the Wall Street Journal about the ongoing pilot shortage says not only has Delta Air

Lines Inc. recalled all of its furloughed pilots who want to return, the airline plans to add about

50 pilots a month “through early this year” and then take 20 a month through September.

Our focus is to reposition Nigerian aviation industry, says Oduah

Aviation Minister, Princes Stella Oduah, said weekend, that the focus of President Goodluck

Jonathan’s administration was to reposition the aviation industry in the country to become a

major player in the world.

ALPA, global aviation labor leaders take campaign to Oslo

A delegation of pilots and aviation labor leaders from around the globe are meeting in Oslo,

Norway, this week as part of a critical fact-finding mission to raise awareness over Norwegian

Air Shuttle’s (NAS) attempt to avoid Norway’s employment laws.

Singapore raises inspection of Indian planes after FAA downgrade

Singapore’s aviation regulator increased inspection of Indian aircraft after the U.S. Federal

Aviation Administration cut the South Asian nation’s airline-safety ranking.

What might have been for Southeast Asia with expansion of low-cost carriers

A new report from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) and MyTravelResearch.com shows

that if uninhibited, low-cost carrier (LCC) networks had expanded rapidly and created “new

markets, new destinations and new economies,” aviation growth and economic benefits would

have been greater and more widespread across ASEAN nations.

Air India’s ‘Munnabhai’ trainer loses pilot licence

The clean-up forced by America’s recent downgrade of Indian aviation safety ranking now

threatens to expose hidden skeletons in airlines’ cupboards.

 
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