Mexico’s low-cost carrier Interjet and the Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) will establish a competence center for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to improve service support, manufacture components and implement improvements to the aircraft.
Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), Brazil’s competition authority, has approved Qatar Airways’ investment in LATAM Airlines Group, but the regulator has also expressed misgivings about LATAM’s proposed joint venture (JV) with International Airlines Group (IAG).
Spanish carrier Air Europa and Danish regional aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) have completed a sale and leaseback on seven Embraer E195s.
The European Commission is taking Croatia to the Court of Justice of the European Union (EU) for failure to ratify a convention that cements the bloc’s ties with Eurocontrol.
Indianapolis-based regional airline operator Republic Airways Holdings plans to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the 2017 first quarter, the company said in a plan of reorganization filed with a federal bankruptcy court in New York.
Three cases of close encounters between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and airliners heading for London Heathrow Airport were recorded in three consecutive days in July, according to the UK Airprox Board.
UK-based engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce said it is making “significant progress” in its transformation program to improve the company’s financial outlook, against a background of mixed markets.
Nervousness and uncertainty about the global economy and intense competition are giving leaders of Asia-Pacific carriers cause for concern even though the region is maintaining a fast-growth track in terms of passengers carried.
Facilitators of an Asia-Pacific initiative that brings together turboprop aircraft operators in the region to share safety issues and best practices hope to bring in more airline and manufacturer participants in 2017.
Financial results to-date for airlines worldwide, highlighting operating revenues, operating expenses, operating profits/losses and net income/losses for the third quarter of 2016.
São Paulo-based low-cost carrier (LCC) GOL posted a third-quarter net profit of BRL65.9 million ($20.4 million), reversing a BRL2.1 billion net loss in 3Q 2015.
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines is undertaking a major cost reduction program as it battles to offset the continuing effect of slumping inbound tourist traffic to the nation.
Mexico City-based ultra low-cost carrier (ULCC) Volaris has begun selling tickets for its Costa Rica subsidiary, the airline told ATW’s sister publication Aviation Daily during the annual Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) Airline Leaders Forum in Mexico City.
Australia’s Qantas Airways, which is rolling out Wi-Fi across its domestic Airbus A330 and Boeing 737-800 fleet over the next two years, has finished installing Wi-Fi on the first of its aircraft—a 737-800.
Boom Technology expects to start subsonic flight tests of its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator in late 2017. Dubbed “Baby Boom,” the delta wing aircraft is a one-third scale demonstrator for a small supersonic airliner that Boom aims to certificate for commercial service by 2023.
Russia’s regional Saratov Airlines has taken delivery of its first Antonov An-148 aircraft. A second aircraft will be delivered before the end of the year.
