A May 2014 Bombardier CSeries flight test aircraft fire, which grounded CSeries flight testing for more than three months, was caused by the failure of the seal on an engine oil feed tube, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) has concluded.
Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have released the 2016 787-9 Dreamliner Flight Demonstration video. The same ANA aircraft is scheduled to perform demonstration flights July 11-13 at the Farnborough Airshow.
Global air passenger traffic grew 4.6% year-over-year in May, unchanged from April and signaling a slowdown in growth, according to IATA’s latest Air Passenger Market Analysis.
Virgin Australia has revealed that its Tigerair low-cost carrier (LCC) subsidiary will phase out all of its Airbus A320s over the next three years and replace them with Boeing 737s.
China’s HNA Group, parent of Hainan Airlines, has acquired 61.7% of Swiss airline catering and logistics services company Gategroup—and 63.6% of the voting rights and shares as of July 1—which is sufficient for its takeover bid.
Embraer’s E190-E2, which is powered by Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan (GTF) family of engines, is experiencing some of the startup issues seen on the Airbus A320neo.
Swiss investigators have released a preliminary report into a “serious incident” on June 19, involving a near-miss between an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, and a Swiss Avro RJ100 on approach to London City Airport. The Avro RJ100, registered HB-IYT, was operating a scheduled service between Zurich and London City with 87 passengers on board.
Airlines in China and Taiwan have either canceled or delayed flights over the next few days as the region braces for Typhoon Nepartak, which is expected to make landfall on Taiwan’s east coast early Friday, then hit China Saturday.
Lufthansa and the Independent Flight Attendants’ Organization (UFO) negotiated a long-term, no-strike agreement July 5, concluding nearly six months of arbitration.
Leaders of transportation panels in both houses of the US Congress say they have reached agreement on a bipartisan extension of FAA’s authorization through Sept. 30, 2017. The agreement is expected to be voted on in both the House of Representatives and Senate ahead of FAA’s authority expiring July 15.
The first A350 XWB for Thai Airways International (THAI) has rolled out from cabin furnishing and engine installation at the Airbus Toulouse Final Assembly Line.
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS)—which took delivery of its first Bombardier CSeries 100 June 29—could benefit from a swift entry-into-service (EIS) period, according to a Bombardier executive.
Global air freight market demand slowed to 0.9% in May year-over-year (YOY) while global air freight capacity increased 4.9% YOY, the slowest pace since March 2015, according to IATA’s Air Freight Market Analysis.
Airbus is starting to pull together components in preparation for the final assembly of the first A330neo, which is scheduled to get underway in September.
Embraer, which has worked on a predesign for a potential E-Jet E1 cargo conversion, is contemplating a 70- to 90-seat turboprop and may decide on the next aircraft after 2020.
Addis Ababa-based Ethiopian Airlines, which operates the largest network within Africa, has seen a 2%-3% drop in African business, mainly because of microeconomic challenges in oil export nations, Group CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told ATW at last week’s Airbus A350 XWB delivery in Toulouse.
UK low-cost carrier (LCC) easyJet plans to add seven new routes from Switzerland, increasing the number of routes from Geneva to 74, from Basel to 54, and six from Zurich.
Lithuanian leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines has named IT industry executive Kristijonas Kaikaris as its new CEO, replacing Vytautas Kaikaris who will take charge of Small Planet Group.
Qantas regional airline QantasLink has signed a 10-year extension to its agreement with Cobham Airline Services, which operates Boeing 717s under the Qantas brand.
Bombardier delivered the first CSeries aircraft to Lufthansa subsidiary SWISS June 29. Bombardier then provided a 45 minute demo flight to media on one of its CSeries flight test aircraft. ATW editor Karen Walker was onboard and videoed the landing.
