Airbus’s Silicon Valley outpost is developing a modular cabin for widebody freighter aircraft that will provide new types of passenger experience that can generate additional revenue for airlines while making it quicker and easier to change cabins, even between flights.
Dar-es-Salaam-based Air Tanzania has been revealed as the previously unidentified customer for a single Boeing 787-8, valued at $224.6 million at list prices.
Boeing has informed employees that the 777 production rate will be reduced from seven per month to five per month in August 2017, meaning the program’s production rate will be cut twice in 2017.
Southwest Airlines began inaugural flights to Havana, Cuba Dec. 12 from two Florida gateway airports, Tampa International and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International.
US scheduled passenger airlines made a $3.8 billion net profit in the 2016 third quarter, down 58.8% from $9.3 billion in 3Q 2015, according to the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) survey of 25 US airlines released Dec. 12.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has proposed a new set of flight crew mental health rules, formed following lessons learned after a Germanwings Airbus A320—en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf—was deliberately flown into the French Alps March 24, killing all 150 people aboard.
London's Heathrow Airport will submit a planning application for its controversial third runway in 2019, after the project secured government backing in October.
The Competition Commission of Singapore (CCS) has approved a proposed joint venture (JV) between Lufthansa and Singapore Airlines (SIA), subject to certain voluntary conditions.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has temporarily grounded its remaining 10 ATR aircraft in the aftermath of the Dec. 7 ATR 42-500 crash that killed all 48 aboard.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia, has extended the temporary restrictions on the air operator’s certificate (AOC) for Pskovavia passenger and cargo airline through Jan. 31, 2017.
Boeing announced Sunday it had firmed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) signed with Iran Air earlier this year for 50 narrowbody and 30 widebody aircraft in a deal valued at $16.6 billion at list prices.
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s lessor subsidiary Arctic Aviation Assets (AAA) has taken delivery of its first Airbus aircraft, the first of 70 A320neos the Norwegian Group has on order.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing that airlines and ticket agents should be required to inform prospective customers in advance if an airline allows passengers to make mobile phone calls onboard the aircraft.
The remote British South Atlantic territory of St Helena is pushing ahead with plans to start regular air services to the island, despite windshear problems discovered on the northerly approach to its new airport’s sole runway.
Global air passenger traffic growth ebbed in October, increasing 5.8% year-over-year (YOY) compared to 7.1% growth in September, according to IATA’s October Air Passenger Market Analysis.
US industry trade organization Airlines for America (A4A) forecast 45.2 million passengers—a 3.5% year-over-year increase—will fly globally on US airlines during the upcoming holiday season.
