Boeing used to spend 1.5 weeks training new employees, but now it has to spend six weeks—a telling shortfall of the US education system in the digital, globalized business world, but also a poignant example of why some Americans are siding with nativist and protectionist politics in this year’s presidential race, the former head of the OEM said March 22.
The world can’t really agree on what to call them—let alone how to regulate them. Their proliferation has come about so fast it has taken nearly everyone by surprise, and their future is largely shrouded by an uneasy—if also exciting—feeling of the unknown.
Politics should not stand in the way of FAA reform and advancing the pace of Next Generation air traffic control, the head of American Airlines said Tuesday.
Airline seats have been attracting attention in Washington DC and, as is often the case when airlines and the US Capitol converge, the impetus behind this scrutiny is not positive.
Large and significant as it is, the US domestic air transport market is essentially a mature market, growing at about 4-5% annually. Relative to regions like China, which is seeing domestic travel increase at about 10% year-over-year, or India, that is seeing an astonishing 20% clip, the US market has limited growth opportunities.
The FAA reauthorization bill that looked set to proceed through the US Senate in April is an example of both a golden opportunity missed to modernize the US air traffic management system and shameful political interference in market dynamics.
Investigators examining the cause of the flydubai flight FZ981 are able to read data from the damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said on March 21.
Major US airlines involved in antitrust-immunized joint ventures (JVs) with foreign airlines should have “nothing to hide” from periodic US government reviews of those JVs, JetBlue Airways president and CEO Robin Hayes said.
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines has ordered five Boeing 737-800s, valued at approximately $505 million based on expected list prices at delivery.
Brussels Airport remains closed through Thursday after terror attacks reportedly killed at least 11 people and wounded 81 in two explosions at the airport Tuesday morning.
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Boeing investigators have joined a Russian and United Arab Emirates team at the Rostov-on-Don Airport to establish what caused Flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, to crash after a second attempt at landing on Runway 22 in the early morning hours of March 19 in low clouds and heavy winds.
US-based lobbying group Airlines for America (A4A) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the China Air Transport Association (CATA), formalizing their long-standing cooperative relationship toward bolstering air transport development and promoting air travel and tourism between the US and China.
Phuket International Airport authorities stopped a Nordwind Airlines Boeing 777 from taking off and delayed the flight for five hours following a "suspicious remark" from a Russian passenger.
Fastjet shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has accused the African carrier of being in breach of its brand license, deepening the rift with airline management.
Florida-based Spirit Airlines and its flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), have reached a tentative agreement on a five-year labor contract.
Investigators have begun analyzing information from the flight data recorder (FDR) of flydubai FZ981 that crashed on landing in severe weather at Rostov-on-Don Airport March 19, killing all 62 aboard.
A flydubai Boeing 737, en route from Dubai to Russia’s Rostov-on-Don Airport, crashed on landing March 19. The airline said all 55 passengers and seven crew members on board the aircraft were killed.
