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GEDERA, Israel, February 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAT Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: TATT), a leading provider of services and products to the commercial and military aerospace and ground defense industries, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Piedmont Aviation Components Services, signed two CRJ100 Landing Gear overhaul contracts - one exclusive contract with a regional North American operator and another contract with a respected European operator. The combined value of the contracts is estimated in excess of US$7M over a nine year period. Piedmont is based in Kernersville, NC and specializes in the maintenance support of regional aircraft Landing Gear and Honeywell's Auxilliary Power Unit ("APUs"). TAT's President and CEO, Dr. Shmuel Fledel, commented on ... (more)

Comments By American Airlines CEO Gerard Arpey on Japan Airlines Decision to Continue Membership in oneworld Alliance

FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines today announced that it is pleased Japan Airlines (JAL) will continue and expand its successful relationship with American and the oneworld® Alliance. "We respect that this was an important decision for Japan Airlines and the government of Japan, and we believe they have made the right choice for JAL's many stakeho... (more)

JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190 Flight From Chicago to New York JFK

http://twitter.com/fuatkircaali I see Simon Hradecky, the site editor of The Aviation Herald (www.avherald.com) reported this a few hours ago, about our JetBlue emergency landing experience on Saturday, November 21. "A JetBlue Embraer ERJ-190, registration N279JB performing flight B6-904 from Chicago O'Hare, IL to New York JFK, NY (USA) with 64 passengers and 4 crew, was on final visual ... (more)

Acadia VCE: VMware Cisco EMC Virtual Computing Environment

Was today the day the music died? (click here or here if you are not familar with the expression) Add another three letter acronym (TLA) to your IT vocabulary if you are involved with server, storage, networking, virtualization, security and related infrastructure resource management (IRM) topics. That new TLA is Virtual Computing Environment (VCE), a coalition formed by EMC and Cisco alon... (more)

LAN Airlines Monthly Statistics Report for January 2010

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LAN Airlines S.A. and its subsidiaries, ("LAN" or "the Company") (NYSE: LFL; IPSA: LAN), one of the leading airlines in Latin America, today reported its preliminary monthly traffic statistics and punctuality indicators for January 2010. System passenger traffic for January increased 17.6% as capacity rose 11.4%. As a result, the Company's... (more)