Air Canada and its unionized flight attendants remained at odds on Friday, despite government pleas for both sides to return to bargaining to avert a strike that would upend travel for tens of thousands of passengers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/15/air-canada-deadlock/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #unions #jobs #aviation #airlines #aircanada #canada
Those who died in the Aug. 12, 1985, crash of Japan Airlines Flight 123 were remembered Tuesday on the mountainous accident site in Gunma Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/12/japan/jal-crash-memorial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #aviation #mountosutaka #gunma
The airline industry's plans to go green before regulators start penalizing them are little more than a pipe dream. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/12/energy/airline-industry-clean-jet-fuel/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #aviation #airlines #oil #biofuel
Machiko Taniguchi, who lost her husband in the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet, spoke directly to young JAL employees involved in flight safety in her first such opportunity since the tragedy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/widow-40-years-jal-flight-safety/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #airlines #jal #aviation #mountosutaka #gunma #airaccidents #flightjal123
A senior official of the Gunma prefectural police recounted his experience as a rookie officer tasked with identifying remains from the 1985 crash of a Japan Airlines jumbo jet. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/08/japan/police-jal-jumbo-recount/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #japanesepolice #jal #aviation #gunma
A newly acquired Bain Capital company in Japan that makes airplane seats, toilets and galleys is betting its U.S.-based manufacturing hub will give it an advantage under President Donald Trump’s tariff regime. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/05/companies/plane-seat-maker-tariff/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #jamco #aviation #us #tariffs #donaldtrump #usjapanrelations #baincapital
KTLA: Stolen plane found at San Gabriel Valley Airport, El Monte police say
The Airbus A380 superjumbo, which enjoyed an unexpected resurgence when global travel rebounded after the pandemic, is becoming an increasingly expensive headache for airlines. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/29/companies/biggest-passenger-planes-breaking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #airbus #aviation #airlines #boeing #a380
A provisional deal between the United States and European Union to exempt aircraft from tariffs avoids a potential threat to jet production and deliveries, and follows uncharacteristic unity among plane-making rivals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/29/markets/us-eu-aerospace-tariff-trade/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #aviation #airlines #eu #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs
ProPublica
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Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
#News#Environment#Aviation #SpaceX #Space#ElonMusk#Regulation#Trump
Jonathan Schofield
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New this week... Climate adaptation report, fourth round. To #DEFRA from #LHR with no irony whatsoever #aviation#ClimateBreakdown
"https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/documents/company/heathrow-2-0-sustainability/reports/Heathrow-Climate-Adaptation-Report-(ARP4).pdf"
New this week... Climate adaptation report, fourth round. To #DEFRA from #LHR with no irony whatsoever #aviation#ClimateBreakdown
"https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/documents/company/heathrow-2-0-sustainability/reports/Heathrow-Climate-Adaptation-Report-(ARP4).pdf"
A passenger plane carrying 49 people crashed in Russia's far eastern region of Amur on Thursday, authorities said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/24/world/plane-crash-russia-far-east/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #aviation #russia #angaraairlines
Setting aside the oxymoron of an "environmentally sustainable airline", is there anything more unsustainable in aviation than an "All You Can Fly" deal?
Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches
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A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
#News#Environment#Aviation #SpaceX #Space#ElonMusk#Regulation#Trump
"Small plane with 3 on board crash-lands near Mukilteo's Lighthouse Park" by KING5 News (NBC Seattle) - A Cessna (model not stated) lost engine power after departure from Everett Paine Field #KPAE. Unable to glide back to the airport, the pilot successfully ditched in Puget Sound next to the boat dock at Mukilteo Lighthouse Park where rescue was close by. 3 on board all survived, no reported injuries. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/plane-crash-mukilteo-lighthouse-park/281-a76f45c9-d4d7-437c-9fc2-f8a24cc0a408 #aviation #avgeek#PNW
The news of the Cessna ditching in the water next to the boat dock at Mukilteo Lighthouse Park got my attention. I was there 2 weeks ago. @Leighton and I were exploring the vicinity of Paine Field #KPAE in Everett after we took the Boeing Factory Tour. He spotted that park on the map and was curious for a look. #aviation #avgeek#PNW
the historic lighthouse at Mukilteo Lighthouse Park
photo by Ian Kluft
July 6, 2025
Mukilteo, Washington, USA
Puget Sound viewing north from Mukilteo Lighthouse Park
photo by Ian Kluft
July 6, 2025
Mukilteo, Washington, USA
"Small plane with 3 on board crash-lands near Mukilteo's Lighthouse Park" by KING5 News (NBC Seattle) - A Cessna (model not stated) lost engine power after departure from Everett Paine Field #KPAE. Unable to glide back to the airport, the pilot successfully ditched in Puget Sound next to the boat dock at Mukilteo Lighthouse Park where rescue was close by. 3 on board all survived, no reported injuries. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/plane-crash-mukilteo-lighthouse-park/281-a76f45c9-d4d7-437c-9fc2-f8a24cc0a408 #aviation #avgeek#PNW
Uhhh....
Alaska Airlines asking FAA to ground its entire fleet
Last month's deadly Air India crash and a recently released Australian report on the midair breakup of a helicopter in 2023 have renewed a decades-old debate in the aviation industry over use of cockpit video cameras. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/world/society/air-india-cockpit-video-recorders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #airindia #airlines #aviation #airaccidents #india
India ordered its airlines to examine fuel switches on several Boeing models, while South Korea said it would order a similar measure, as scrutiny intensifies of fuel switch locks after a deadly Air India crash. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/15/airlines-boeing-fuel-switches-air-india/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #boeing #airlines #aviation #airindia #airaccidents #india #southkorea