Ethiopian Airlines is upgrading the infrastructure at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport for maintenance, cargo and flight simulators as the Star Alliance member continues to grow.
China’s Hainan Airlines is applying to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to open routes this year from Chongqing to Los Angeles in the first quarter and New York JFK in the second quarter.
US-based avionics and IT provider Rockwell Collins announced Jan. 4 the company’s acquisition of UK-based self-service bag drop system developer Pulse.Aero.
The British government has launched a consultation concerning the safety and privacy of unmanned aerial systems as it looks to widen their use in society.
Fast-expanding low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian plans to take nine Boeing 787-9s and its first 737 MAX in 2017, using some extra capacity to add its first long-haul, low-cost flights between the UK and non-US destinations.
Air France has confirmed that its Boeing 777-200 was struck at the end of its left wing while parked at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Jan. 3 by a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft maneuvering to reach its parking stand.
Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)—which took delivery of its fifth Bombardier CS100 on Dec. 30, 2016—expects to receive a minimum of 12 CS100s, as well as the larger CSeries variant CS300, in 2017.
A Russian Aeroflot Airbus A321 suffered a landing gear collapse after skidding off the runway on landing at Kaliningrad Khrabrovo International Airport on Jan. 3 at 10:30 p.m. local time, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
Vietnam Airlines (VNA) and its subsidiaries earned a consolidated pre-tax profit of $113.7 million in 2016, which represents a 140% increase on the previous year, according to the company’s initial estimates.
A White House National Economic Council report on “hidden fees” issued in late December describes airlines’ checked baggage fees as “de facto mandatory” and operating in a transparency “gray zone” in which the fees are optional only in a “theoretical s
A technical outage shut down US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing at multiple US airports the evening of Monday, Jan. 2, creating lengthy delays for thousands of passengers returning from the holidays.
Chinese low-cost carrier (LCC) Spring Airlines has slowed down its international expansion pace as load factors drop on international routes, especially Japan and Thailand, according to Spring chairman Wang Zhenghua.
International Airlines Group (IAG) plans to set up what it describes as a new “next-generation, long-haul operation” based at Barcelona’s El Prat Airport from June.
Wilmington, Ohio-based Air Transport Services Group (ATSG), parent of cargo carriers ABX Air and Air Transport International, has acquired Tampa, Florida-based PEMCO World Air Services.
Russian and Turkish aviation authorities have signed an agreement allowing designated airlines to operate up to 7X-weekly Istanbul (Turkey)-Zhukovsky (Russia), Istanbul-Grozny (Russia) and Moscow-Gazipasa (Turkey) services.
