Singapore Airlines (SIA) is to give up seven of its outstanding Airbus A350-900 production slots, following a request from Airbus to cut the carrier's order book from the 70-strong order firmed up in 2013 to 63 aircraft.

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) has named Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov to its board of directors, succeeding Vnesheconombank (VEB) chairman Vladimir Dmitriev.

Safety on runways and at airports is a major component of overall aviation safety.

Bombardier earned second-quarter net income of $125 million, down 19.4% from a net profit of $155 million in the prior-year period, on a 5.5% year-over-year drop in revenue to $4.62 billion.

The sale of most of GE’s financing business as part of a reorganization effort will not adversely affect its aircraft-leasing arm, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), as some have speculated.

In some ways, the early 21st century is beginning to mimic the early 20th century in terms of aviation pioneering and experimentation.

From the August 2015 issue of Air Transport World magazine