Low Demand for Energy Result in a Change in Aviation Needs

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - BBA Aviation, the leading provider of flight support and aftermarket services and systems to the aviation industry, said while revenues in the first half were down 13 per cent, operating profits only fell 2 per cent on a like-for-like basis, to GBP50.6m, thanks to the "difficult" measures it had taken to mitigate against the downturn. "One of the reasons that we have been so resilient through this first half is all our businesses demonstrate a low level of operational gearing and this means we can flex our cost base to meet the environment that we face," Simon Pryce, Chief Executive, said in a video interview with Cantos.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - Brendan Hickman, founder and managing partner of Transportation Management Group, is to join UBM Aviation as Chief Commercial Officer. UBM Aviation www.ubmaviation.com) is a leading provider of aviation data and information products, publications and events for the global aviation community.

June 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Downturn in Flights Most Marked Within Europe; South America set for an Upturn OAG (www.oagaviation.com) the world's leading aviation data business, has released its airline capacity outlook for the second half of 2009, to identify the projected trend in the global and regional supply of airline flights and seats. The world's airlines will offer 3.67% fewer flights and 2.76% fewer seats than they did a year ago.

June 7th, 2009 TIANJIN, China - Gold Wings of Tianjin Aviation Embodies the City's Dream of Harmonious Development An unveiling ceremony held in Binhai New District of Tianjin on June 6, 2009 marks the official founding of Tianjin Aviation Ltd (referred to as "Tianjin Aviation" hereinafter), a joint venture between HNA Group, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone and Hainan Airlines Co., Ltd. Present at the unveiling ceremony were He Lifeng (Vice-secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of CPC), Li Jian (Deputy-director of Civil Aviation Administration of China, the Ministry of Transport), Cui Jindu (Standing Committee Member of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of CPC & Vice-mayor), Kang Yaohong (Deputy-director of the Standing Committee of Hainan Provincial People's Congress, Standing Committee Member of China Democratic League), Chen Feng (President of HNA Group) and Wang Jian (Vice-president & CEO of HNA Group).

April 16th, 2009 HOOFDDORP, The Netherlands - Despite numerous warnings from engineers that aviation safety is being compromised by declining standards, regulators have always maintained that everything is under control, until now. The Civil Aviation Authority's Director of European and International Strategy has apparently suggested that safety levels in the USA are now better than in Europe.

March 29th, 2009 LONDON - Projected 4% Drop in Global Aircraft Utilization in 2009: North America Worst Affected with 7% Decrease - Asian Operators' Market Share of Global Utilization to Increase 3% by 2018 - Aircraft Retirements to Peak in 2016 - 2017 In 2009 the average aircraft utilization for the world's commercial fleet is expected to drop by 4% compared to 2008, according to the latest Commercial Aircraft Fleets and Utilization Forecast from OAG ( www.oagaviation.com), the world's leading aviation data business. This is revealed in OAG's most recent study of the global MRO (maintenance, repair and overhaul) service demand projection for the next decade, developed in partnership with AeroStrategy.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - April 1st 2009 is Energy Wasting Day - www.energywastingday.com Wannabe celeb Dan Power is releasing the World's first ever 'anti-eco' single -'Energy Wasting Day' (Wednesday 1st April 2009). In his debut music video, Dan Power (a self-confessed carbon junkie and Jeremy Clarkson fan) is seen cavorting with a group of girls pole dancing around patio heaters, riding a gas guzzling motorbike and advocating all kinds of ways to needlessly waste energy.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - Voting Now Open to Identify the Best in the Commercial Aviation Aftermarket Aviation Industry Group, part of UBM Aviation (www.ubmaviation.com ), has unveiled the short list for the inaugural AIG Awards and has announced that the final voting is officially underway. Suppliers and customers of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) and related services in the commercial aviation aftermarket can vote online at www.aviationindustryawards.com for the companies they consider have excelled in the past year.

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - Unite the union today (Thursday) rejected the demand from the Competition Commission that BAA has to sell Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh airports, in addition to the already agreed sale of Gatwick airport. According to Unite national secretary for aviation, Steve Turner: "The Commission has applied a narrow competition at all costs criterion to the complex operation of our airport operations which will not deliver and does not serve either the national transport infrastructure, the travelling public nor the thousands of airport workers across the country.

March 11th, 2009 LONDON - With over half of all aircraft orders coming from the Middle East, the region's aviation industry looks set to survive the economic downturn. Middle Eastern airlines will be gathering in Dubai on 24th & 25th March to discuss their maintenance strategies and listen to presentations from a line-up of top speakers at the Middle East Airline Engineering & Maintenance Conference 2009.

January 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Painting a gloomy picture of adverse climate change affecting countries across the globe, a leading energy expert has said that more than one-third of world energy demand would continue to be met by fossil fuels like coal till 2030. 'World energy demand would increase by 45 percent between now and 2030.

March 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's aviation industry is likely to see a 6.8 percent fall in demand and 4 percent drop in capacity in 2009 due to the 'rapid deterioration of the global economic conditions,' an international air travel lobby said Tuesday. 'Overall, India is expected to see a 6.8 percent fall in demand but only a 4 percent drop in capacity,' Giovanni Bisignani, the director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said in a statement.

January 9th, 2009 BRUSSELS - European demand for oil must be reduced by over 50 percent by 2050, a European Union (EU) committee said Friday. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), a consultative assembly within the EU, called for a massive reduction of oil demand in Europe over the next 40 years.

July 27th, 2009 Obama: US, China interested in clean energyWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the U.S. and China have a shared interest in creating clean and secure energy sources.

June 1st, 2009 A glance at lightning strikes in civil aviationSome details about lightning strikes in civil aviation: —Lightning strikes on passenger airliners occur daily, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere and the equatorial belt where massive thunderstorms are frequent throughout the year. —Each large passenger jet — such as the Airbus A330 — is struck by lightning about once every three years on average, according to international aviation incident statistics.

July 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government Tuesday signed a pact with International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents some 230 airlines comprising over 90 percent of scheduled air traffic globally, on skill development in the aviation sector. Under the pact signed in Geneva, IATA will help Indian aviation industry personnel enhance skills to help them match global standards, the government said Tuesday.

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Praful Patel on Tuesday said that there was no plan of retrenchment and early retirement scheme for the civil aviation sector employees. "There are approximately 52,042 employees working in the civil aviation sector in the attached/autonomous/public sector organisations under this ministry.

June 8th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Airline chiefs gathered in Malaysia Monday for an international aviation meeting to focus on strategies to fight off a deepening crisis in global air travel. More than 500 aviation industry leaders will be attending the two-day International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual meeting in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

September 26th, 2009 KERALA - Civil Aviation secretary M Madhavan Nambiar has said that aviation industry is going through a very difficult phase, turning thousands of pilots and other specialized staff jobless in the country. Addressing Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) aviation academy in Nedumbassery district of Kerala state, he said that the aviation sector has been hit by a slowing economy triggered by the global financial crisis, reducing business and leisure journeys of most passengers.

April 21st, 2009 High cost of addressing climate change challengedWASHINGTON — An environmental group is challenging claims that major reductions in greenhouse gases would lead to soaring energy costs. The Union of Concerned Scientists says its analysis, using Energy Department computer models, show that higher electric and gasoline costs will be offset by improvements in energy and automobile efficiency.