Aviation News

Italy s Aviation Authority Seeks to End Dispute With Ryanair (Bloomberg) Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Italy s civil-aviation authority will meet on Jan. 7 to discuss airport security as it seeks to defuse threats by Ryanair Holdings Plc to cancel flights in a dispute over passenger-identification rules.

BASF and NAAA unveil new agricultural aviation scholarship program (AG Weekly) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – BASF and the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) today unveiled a scholarship program designed to help its recipients pursue a career in agricultural aviation. BASF partnered with the NAAA to develop and establish the scholarship program.

Chicago Aviation Dept. urges travelers to be aware (KWQC-TV 6 Davenport) Associated Press – December 29, 2009 1:04 PM ET CHICAGO (AP) – The head of Chicago’s Aviation Department is urging passengers to remain vigilant at the city’s airports as the holiday travel…

BASF and NAAA unveil new agricultural aviation scholarship program (AG Weekly) RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – BASF and the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) today unveiled a scholarship program designed to help its recipients pursue a career in agricultural aviation. BASF partnered with the NAAA to develop and establish the scholarship program.

Nigeria : ‘Aviation Ministry Secretly Concessions Airports’ (AllAfrica.com) Crisis simmers in the aviation industry as there are fears that the Ministry of Aviation might have secretly concessioned three of the four major international airports slated for privatisation.

Aviation-based team training may influence clinicians’ safety behaviors (PhysOrg) Team training based on protocols originally developed for aviation crews may change safety-related behaviors and contribute to perceptions of empowerment among nurses and other surgical staff, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Surgery.

Purdue University Gets A Phenom 100 Jet For Aviation Program (The Aero-News Network) World’s First Collegiate Turbofan Pilot Training Program Obtains Embraer’s New Jet Purdue University, in West Lafayette, IN has purchased a Phenom 100 as part of the Department of Aviation Technology’s fleet replacement program, Embraer announced Wednesday. The jet will allow the university’s [...]

Fitch Rates Miami-Dade County, Florida’s $600MM Aviation Revs ‘A’; Outlook Revised to Stable (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) NEW YORK—-Fitch Ratings assigns an ‘A’ rating to the Miami-Dade County, Florida’s $600 million aviation revenue bonds, series 2010A. The airport expects the overall bond issue to include a tax-exempt series and a second series issued under [...]

Govt unveils aviation security overhaul (BigPond News) The government has released a white paper outline 130 ways to improve the aviation sector.

Albanese outlines aviation improvement (BigPond News) Metal cutlery will be reintroduced under an overhaul of aviation security planned by the federal government.