Skyportz's reveal comes as Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Agency releases design guidelines for vertiports.

Meanwhile, the Spirit board has tapped one of its own, Irene Esteves, to take over while the company tries to sell itself to Airbus and/or Boeing.

Daher’s board of directors has appointed Didier Kayat as the group’s chairman of the board to succeed Patrick Daher, who is retiring.

Austrian Airlines is juggling preparations for 787 maintenance while continuing support for older fleets that are being phased out.

Comac has jointly established the Large Aircraft Research Institute with Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian, China.

Ethiopian Airlines CEO Mesfin Tasew says the Boeing 737-8s the carrier was expecting to receive this year have been delayed; he also doubts the 777X timeline.

The advent of increasing numbers of Airbus A220s in North America is changing traffic patterns on the continent, says John Evans, the CEO of lessor Azorra.

Widebody orders were at the top of the agenda at the IATA Annual General Meeting.