Rolls-Royce has run its Trent 1000-TEN engine, which will power all variants of the Boeing 787, for the first time.

Aeroflot’s grounded Ilyushin Il-96 caught fire June 3 while parked at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport.

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) have entered into an agreement to study the feasibility of designing a new widebody aircraft.

Fiji Airways subsidiary Fiji Link took delivery of its first new ATR 72-600 on lease from Singapore-based Avation PLC.

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Airbus has begun operating so-called Early Long Flights (ELFs) aimed at assessing the cabin environment and related systems of the new A350 XWB in a typical operating scenario.

A group of airlines chiefs, including IAG CEO Willie Walsh, is calling for a review of how air transport communications and IT specialist SITA is structured and governed.

Recommendations from an IATA task force created to find options for better global tracking of airliners will not be mandatory and may not be “one size fits all,” the organization’s head of safety and flight operations said Tuesday.