Brussels Airlines has followed up its heroic effort during the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa with a campaign to help the continent recover from the lingering and devastating economic impact of the epidemic.
Virgin Australia is deploying Airbus A330s on an international route for the first time, and introducing the aircraft on its busiest routes in Australia’s east coast corridor.
Instead of developing new aircraft, the two major aircraft manufacturers will now turn their attention to putting re-engined versions of already existing aircraft types into the market.
The ability to work anywhere on any device has huge implications for the airline industry, from launching new routes to making the best use of a crew’s time to reacting to a disaster.
Tyrolean Airways’ maintenance arm Tyrolean Technik was re-established as a separate company, effective March 1, as a result of the reorganization of Austrian Airlines Group.
Today, 3-D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly passing from the “gee-whiz” stage to an accepted, if still novel, aspect of the aerospace industry.
International Airlines Group (IAG)—parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling— reported a 2014 net profit of just over €1 billion ($1.1 billion) for the year ended Dec. 31, 2014, compared to €151 million for the previous year.
Aeroflot Group reported a full-year net loss of RUB17.1 billion ($274.6 million) as of Dec. 31, 2014, reversed from a net profit of RUB7.33 billion in the year-ago period.
The larger version of Bombardier’s CSeries aircraft, the CS300, reached an altitude of 41,000 ft. (12,500 m.) and a speed of 255 knots (470 km/h) during its first flight.
Norwegian Air Shuttle’s (NAS) US-based employees are urging the Obama administration to approve Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) foreign air carrier’s permit application, adding their voices to the din surrounding NAI’s controversial application.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed this week it is exploring altering the 1,500-mile perimeter rule at New York LaGuardia Airport, but most US carriers said it is too early to consider what could mean for their networks, with one exception: Virgin America.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) has confirmed it will launch nonstop Kiev Boryspil-Beijing Capital International Airport services on April 29 using a Boeing 767-300ER.
In a sign of the increasing maturity of Bombardier’s CSeries airliner, the first test aircraft for the stretched, 135-seat CS300 variant flew for about five hours on its maiden flight from Mirabel, near Montreal, Feb. 27.
The unmanned aerial systems (UAS) revolution is having an effect on what’s flying and what it can do for people almost as dramatic as that of the introduction of powered manned flight.
Airbus Group delivered a record 629 civil aircraft in 2014 and announced plans to increase the A320 production rate from 42 to 50 aircraft per month starting in 2017.
