Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is positioning itself as a developer and manufacturer of products for aircraft cabins, bundling all these activities in a new original equipment innovation product division.
UK low-cost carrier easyJet has signed seven- and 10-year deals with London’s Gatwick and Luton airports, respectively, enabling the airline to commit to growth at those locations.
Indonesia’s Lion Air parent company Lion Group has confirmed it is in talks to build an airport to serve Jakarta, where severe congestion is crippling commercial air transport growth.
Japan Airlines (JAL) will trial Gogo’s new dual-antennae product, 2Ku, which the supplier says will give airlines fast, reliable and affordable broadband worldwide.
Juneyao Airlines’ low-cost subsidiary (LCC) Jiuyuan Airlines has received its air operator’s certificate and is expected to make its maiden flight this year.
Singapore Airlines has become the first international airline to operate Airbus A380 services into India since the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) agreed to lift restrictions on the aircraft in January.
UK air navigation services provider NATS has signed a memorandum of understanding with Airbus air traffic management (ATM) subsidiary Airbus ProSky to develop joint market propositions for increasing capacity and improving the efficiency of the air traffic system.
Lufthansa and subsidiary Austrian Airlines have stopped flights to Libya indefinitely due to security concerns after a bomb exploded in March at Tripoli International Airport, damaging the main runway.
Fifteen years after the Kosovo crisis, NATO has allowed civilian air traffic overflights through the republic’s upper airspace (Flight Level 205 to Flight Level 660) with the opening up of five direct routes.
Japan’s Skymark Airlines’ first Airbus A380 has performed its maiden flight, following completion of the airframe assembly and system tests in Toulouse.
Worldwide passenger traffic grew 5.4% year-over-year in February, down 2.8 points from January’s 8.2% growth, according to IATA’s Air Passenger Market Analysis.
Aircraft deliveries year-to-date, sorted by delivery date. Note: AIRBUS orders are in CAPS for differentiation purposes. Sources: Airbus, Boeing, ATW research.
Malaysian authorities said Monday that investigators are working to verify that signals detected over the weekend by Chinese patrol ship Haixun 01 and Australia’s HMS Ocean Shield could be from the flight recorders of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in the southern Indian Ocean waters.
Lufthansa Group has placed an order worth more than €1 billion ($1.37 billion) at list prices for CFM International LEAP-1A engines for 40 Airbus A320neo aircraft it ordered last year.
The European Commission has released further detail about non-European Union (EU) investments in European airlines that it is examining to see if they comply with the region’s ownership and control rules.
KLM Cityhopper will end its 2X-daily Fokker 70 services between Amsterdam and Manston Airport from April 10, as the Southeast UK airport braces for possible closure.
