Air Astana expects to take delivery of its first leased Airbus A320neo in October, six months behind schedule, the Kazakhstan flag carrier’s president and CEO Peter Foster told ATW in Almaty.
Challenging economic conditions facing state-owned Oman Air in recent years are likely to continue, but the flag carrier will continue to invest in improvements, CEO Paul Gregorowitsch said.
British Airways (BA) and Qatar Airways, which owns a stake in BA parent company International Airlines Group (IAG), have agreed to a network partnership, strengthening ties between the two oneworld airlines.
The missile that brought down a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, killing all 298 people onboard, was brought in from Russia and fired from a field controlled by pro-Russian rebels, the official investigation team announced Wednesday.
Enabling controllers at airport air traffic control (ATC) towers to transmit flight clearance information to pilots via text message will reduce flight delays and potentially expand capacity at crowded airports, according to FAA.
Adoption of a global scheme to offset carbon emissions is the key issue facing the ICAO Assembly in Montreal on Sept. 27-Oct. 7. Industry expects agreement will be reached on the landmark measure, but not without opposition from some countries and several environmental groups.
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and joint venture partner Air France-KLM have announced an expansion of the airlines’ existing cooperation agreement with India’s Jet Airways.
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) and MTU Aero Engines are looking into options to jointly provide MRO services for the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G family of geared turbofan (GTF) engines.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has announced that its CS300 jetliner—the second CS300 flight test vehicle—has embarked on a series of European and Middle Eastern route-proving flights alongside first operator airBaltic of Latvia.
The new IATA director general and CEO attends the ICAO Assembly in Montreal this week confident that the carbon emissions proposal that the air transport industry has forged is a good one that can be implemented.
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.’s first MRJ90 test aircraft is expected to land in the US within a week, after an earlier attempt was aborted because of a technical fault.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has cleared the partnership between Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Virgin Australia for another five years.
Former Southwest Airlines president Colleen Barrett has been named the 2016 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy recipient by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA).
