Boeing used to spend 1.5 weeks training new employees, but now it has to spend six weeks—a telling shortfall of the US education system in the digital, globalized business world, but also a poignant example of why some Americans are siding with nativist and protectionist politics in this year’s presidential race, the former head of the OEM said March 22.

Airline seats have been attracting attention in Washington DC and, as is often the case when airlines and the US Capitol converge, the impetus behind this scrutiny is not positive.

Articles from the April 2016 issue of ATW

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.

Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian is leasing an additional two new Boeing 787-9s for its growing long-haul operations.

Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines has ordered five Boeing 737-800s, valued at approximately $505 million based on expected list prices at delivery.

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.

Airbus has completed the first test flight of its first aircraft built in the US, an A321 to be delivered to JetBlue Airways this spring.