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Boeing 737NG operators must conduct more frequent inspections of engine fan blades as regulators move to mandate a CFM International-recommended reduction in the repetitive-check interval needed to ensure cracks are not forming at the blade roots.

UK-based LCC easyJet anticipates a year-end pre-tax profit of £570-580 million ($743-756 million), which is in the upper half of previous predictions, the carrier said Sept. 28.

Air France CEO Franck Terner has resigned, leaving the new Air France-KLM Group CEO running both companies.

The Lufthansa Group has converted options for 24 Airbus A320neo and three A321neo into firm orders.

FAA reauthorization legislation approved by House and Senate committee leaders contains “the most forward-leaning language from Congress on supersonics since the 1960s,” said Boom Supersonic, the Colorado-based startup developing a 55-seat, Mach 2.2 airliner.

United Technologies Corp. (UTC) appears unlikely to meet its own Sept. 30 deadline for closing the roughly $30 billion acquisition of avionics and cabin interiors giant Rockwell Collins.

ExpressJet Airlines pilots have ratified a new three-year contract, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)—which represents ExpressJet’s 1,100 pilots—said Sept. 27.

An Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 crashed into a lagoon on Sept. 28 when attempting to land at Chuuk Island in the Federated States of Micronesia, with

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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Elaine Chao on Sept. 27 announced the FAA has awarded $205 million in supplemental funding for infrastructure grants to 34 airports.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) plans to mandate swaps of a Fokker Services-supplied electronic flight bag (EFB) component linked to several cockpit smoke and fume events.

British Airways (BA) has invited two unnamed companies to conduct biometric self-boarding gate trials at New York John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), building on existing pilot projects at Los Angeles (LAX) and Orlando (MCO) international airports.

The House has passed the recently announced, five-year bill to reauthorize the FAA on a 398-23 vote.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and biometric technologies have emerged as key themes in the latest survey of technology trends performed by aviation information-technology (IT) provider SITA.

Egyptair Cargo, launch customer for the Airbus A330-200P2F converted freighter, has begun operations with the type.

Qantas Airways has revealed the first location for its proposed pilot academy, and has selected L3 Commercial Aviation as the training provider.

African LCC Fastjet said this week it will require a further cash injection from shareholders by the end of October to continue operating.

Ryanair’s German pilots, represented by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union, have called for a 24-hr. strike early on Sept. 28.

Ryanair said it would open two bases in Bordeaux and Marseille as part of its summer 2019 schedule, basing two aircraft at each airport and representing a $200 million investment for each one, as the LCC seeks to accelerate its growth in the French market.

Lufthansa intends to implement most of its expansion plans for 2019 at its Munich hub and is preparing to transfer more large aircraft to that base.

Emirates has withdrawn its application to operate flights from Dubai to Mexico City via an intermediate stop in Spain, after Mexican authorities granted three flights a week versus the daily schedule sought by the Dubai-based carrier.

EASA has issued the type certificate for the A330-900, one of the two models of the A330neo family, clearing the way for entry-into-service of Airbus’ latest widebody model this year.

The global airline industry has come out in strong support for Congress’s recently announced compromise bill to reauthorize the FAA through 2023.

An investigation into last year's taxiway overflight by an Air Canada Airbus A320 at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) underscores gaps in how key airfield-configuration and other flight-operations information is communicated to pilots, leading the NTSB to recommend the FAA undertake a broad review of the process.