Aviation Daily

By Michael Bruno
Frost & Sullivan said the global additive manufacturing (AM) materials market for the aerospace industry will reach $535.1 million by 2024, rocketing with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.3% through 2024.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The European Union (EU) is urging ICAO to establish the most robust Carbon Offset and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) system possible, so the global airline industry can stabilize CO2 emissions at 2020 levels.
Air Transport

Mark Nensel
Boeing logged 40 new commercial aircraft bookings in May, over half for 737 MAXs, lifting the U.S. manufacturer’s total gross orders for 2018 to 361 commercial aircraft valued at about $63 billion, more than doubling the year to-date gross orders (160) and sales ($27 billion) of European competitor Airbus.
Air Transport

View the Airport Profile — Washington Dulles International (IAD) chart in PDF format.

By Sean Broderick
Swoop, WestJet’s new ultra-LCC offshoot, has been granted its Transport Canada (TC) air operator’s certificate (AOC), clearing the way for inaugural flights June 20.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick, Mark Nensel
Recent news from Southwest Airlines that it is scaling back planned growth through year-end will help keep domestic capacity in check as costs rise, but similar moves will be needed by peers to cement what analysts believe is a necessary market correction.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
The scheduled first delivery of the Sino-Russian Craic CR929 widebody airliner has been advanced by two years to 2025, with the first flight now scheduled for 2023.
Air Transport

Alan Dron
ADS, the trade body representing the UK aerospace industry, has urged talks to ensure aviation safety arrangements between the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the UK‘s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) are hammered out before the UK leaves the European Union (EU).
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission (EC) has given the green light for UK global investment manager AMP Capital Investors and Spanish airports operator Aena Internacional to acquire joint control of London Luton Airport.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Ireland-based aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation Capital posted a $319.4 million full-year pre-tax profit and is aiming to transition the majority of its fleet to new-technology aircraft by the mid-2020s.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia Group CEO John Borghetti announced he will leave the company in 2020, sharpening the focus on who his successor will be.
Air Transport

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By Victoria Moores
Irish LCC Ryanair has inked its second cabin crew union agreement, recognizing Unite the Union in the UK, where 25% of the airline’s fleet is based.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
An overly cautious FAA should change its approach to assessing safety risk when it considers unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recommends in a study released June 11.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick, Tony Osborne
A pending regulatory mandate will give Boeing 787 operators flying so-called “Package B” versions of Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines 30 days to inspect intermediate pressure compressor (IPC) blades for cracks, setting the stage for perhaps more 787 groundings.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
Shanghai-based LCC Spring Airlines plans to introduce much longer routes when it begins receiving Airbus A320neo family aircraft in the second half of this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Swire Pacific Holdings is attempting to privatize MRO provider Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Co. (HAECO) by purchasing the outstanding shares it does not yet control.
Air Transport

By Maksim Pyadushkin
Sino-Russian consortium Craic has fixed the main dimensional details of its CR929 widebody aircraft, having revised them from figures given to Aviation Daily in May.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay Pacific has not ruled out establishing an LCC unit, although such a move would be very unlikely in the short-term, said CEO Rupert Hogg.
Air Transport

View the Global Jet Fuel Prices As of June 7, 2018 chart in PDF format.

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By Helen Massy-Beresford
Air France said its pilots’ unions had announced a call for strikes on Jun. 23, 24, 25 and 26, part of a long-running dispute between employees and management over pay, and condemned the unions’ move as “incompatible with any concern for the company’s future.”
Air Transport

By Mark Nensel
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz—speaking at an Economic Club of Washington, D.C. event June 7—gave no indication the Chicago-based carrier would retreat from its 2018 and longer-range earnings guidance.
Air Transport