Bombardier Aerospace’s president and COO believes the company will soon have a better understanding of the possible cause of the engine failure that occurred May 29 on the CSeries flight test aircraft FTV1 during ground testing at Bombardier’s Mirabel, Quebec, facility.
Emirates president Tim Clark, whose airline operates the world’s largest fleet of Boeing 777s with 136 of the type, has questioned moves to potentially change airliner flight tracking in the wake of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777,which disappeared March 8 while operating flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, until more is known about what happened to the aircraft.
The commercial airline industry needs a global mindset to unlock its full future potential, the head of IATA said in his opening address Monday at the organization’s 70th annual meeting in Doha.
IATA has announced three new pilot programs to test its New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard, with Aeroflot, Aer Lingus, Qatar Airways and JR Technologies among those participating.
The government of Venezuela “takes the top prize for willful irresponsibility,” for wrongly withholding some $4 billion of airline funds, IATA’s top executive said Monday.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has flown the first commercial Airbus A380 flight into India following the relaxation of restrictions imposed in 2008 by the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation.
Patrick de Castelbajac has been appointed CEO of ATR, taking over from Filippo Bagnato, whose four-year mandate, according to ATR statutes, expired at the end of May 2014. De Castelbajac joins ATR from the commercial direction of Airbus where he was head of contracts negotiations.
Bombardier has grounded the CSeries flight test program while it investigates an engine failure that occurred May 29 on flight test aircraft FTV1 during ground testing.
Okinawa-based Japan Transocean Air (JTA), a member of JAL Group, has finalized an order for 12 Boeing 737-800s in an order valued at $1.1 billion at list prices.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved a proposal by air navigation services provider NATS to reclassify the airspace around London Heathrow Airport from Class A to Class D.
Auckland Airport, Airways New Zealand and the Board of Airline Representatives New Zealand (BARNZ) have released a draft report on the SMART Approaches flight path trial at Auckland Airport for public feedback.
Australia’s Darwin-headquartered Vincent Aviation—which operates a fleet of five Beechcraft 1900s, four SAAB 340s and one BAE 146-200 jet—has gone into receivership.
Russia’s UTair subsidiary, UTair Express, has unveiled the livery on its first of six Sukhoi Superjet 100LR (SSJ100LR) aircraft, ahead of its official delivery date in June.
Canada’s FLYHT Aerospace Solutions has signed a contract with an unspecified Nigerian airline for the sale and delivery of its Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) 220 on five Boeing 737 aircraft.
In March, US scheduled passenger airlines employed 383,610 full-time workers, up 0.8% year-over-year, according to figures from the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
