Large and significant as it is, the US domestic air transport market is essentially a mature market, growing at about 4-5% annually. Relative to regions like China, which is seeing domestic travel increase at about 10% year-over-year, or India, that is seeing an astonishing 20% clip, the US market has limited growth opportunities.

Articles from the April 2016 issue of ATW

The FAA reauthorization bill that looked set to proceed through the US Senate in April is an example of both a golden opportunity missed to modernize the US air traffic management system and shameful political interference in market dynamics.

Investigators examining the cause of the flydubai flight FZ981 are able to read data from the damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said on March 21.

Major US airlines involved in antitrust-immunized joint ventures (JVs) with foreign airlines should have “nothing to hide” from periodic US government reviews of those JVs, JetBlue Airways president and CEO Robin Hayes said.

Brussels Airport remains closed through Thursday after terror attacks reportedly killed at least 11 people and wounded 81 in two explosions at the airport Tuesday morning.

US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Boeing investigators have joined a Russian and United Arab Emirates team at the Rostov-on-Don Airport to establish what caused Flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, to crash after a second attempt at landing on Runway 22 in the early morning hours of March 19 in low clouds and heavy winds.

US-based lobbying group Airlines for America (A4A) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the China Air Transport Association (CATA), formalizing their long-standing cooperative relationship toward bolstering air transport development and promoting air travel and tourism between the US and China.