IATA airlines have strongly endorsed a resolution that calls for a single system for offsetting global aviation carbon emissions and provides governments with a set of principles for establishing that system.
Lufthansa chairman and CEO Christoph Franz told ATW on the sidelines of the IATA AGM in Cape Town that the carrier is in intense negotiations with Airbus and Boeing about its future long-haul fleet.
China Southern Airlines on Saturday became the first Chinese carrier to take delivery of its first Boeing 787, which will be used as part of its international expansion plans.
Norwegian Air Shuttle launched its first long-haul flight Thursday with Oslo-New York JFK services, followed by Stockholm Arlanda-New York JFK services Friday.
Temel Kotil became CEO at Turkish Airlines on March 24, 2003. He has transformed the flag carrier to one of the fastest-growing in the world. Turkish operates to 221 destinations with a fleet of 215 aircraft and continues its expansion.
More people are spending more time in airports and while they are there, their appetite for bandwidth has skyrocketed as mobile devices play an increasingly large role in everyday life and the travel experience.
An anonymous white-painted Airbus A320 may not seem an aircraft likely to set the pulse racing. But to staff at Romania’s Aerostar facility it is the harbinger of a drive to expand the company’s civil MRO business.
On its face, IATA Resolution 787 presents a simple idea: Since airlines want to get into merchandising and differentiation of their products, it would be best to create technical standards so they don’t all go off in different directions.
Snapping at the heels of today’s commercial air transport industry is the sector’s unruly younger cousin, variously dubbed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned aerial systems (UAS), remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs), or just—and particularly in a military context—drones.
The first flight this summer of the twin-engine Airbus A350 widebody jetliner will likely ignite the expected competition with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner and the not-yet-but-expected-to-be-launched 777X.
Throughout its investigation into the Jan. 7 Japan Airlines Boeing 787 lithium ion battery fire, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has posed the same question in various forms: Do advances in aviation technology at times move so fast that they outpace regulators’ ability to develop standards for cutting-edge equipment or manufacturers’ ability to test that equipment to adequately predict the full range of potential in-service eventualities on a new aircraft?
It was a Valentine's Day pact of the unlikeliest pair of lovers. On Feb. 14, after months of “will they, won’t they?” and considerable wooing by the smaller of the larger, US Airways and American Airlines announced it was official.
