Vietnam Airlines is preparing to take delivery of the first of 20 Airbus A321neos it has on order in September, which will allow the carrier to replace older A321s and also grow its fleet, but it will likely need more narrowbodies and is assessing options.
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“Trade wars are good and easy to win.” Thus tweeted President Donald Trump in early March. But for the jetliner industry, trade wars are a potentially toxic exogenous shock. Jetliners are uniquely vulnerable to retaliation, particularly from China.
ICAO extended Fang Liu’s mandate as secretary general of the UN body for a second three-year term, building on her initial appointment on Aug. 1, 2015.
Air Canada is confident that joint-venture (JV) talks with Air China will be wrapped up this year, laying the groundwork for even closer cooperation between the two airlines, a top executive for the Canadian flag-carrier said.
The European Cockpit Association (ECA), which indirectly represents over 38,000 pilots across Europe, has signed a protocol to give pilots at Irish LCC Ryanair a pan-European voice.
New York-based JetBlue Airways’ decision to convert some of its Airbus A321neo orders to the longer-range (LR) version and launch transatlantic service to Europe hinges on the potential to replicate returns the carrier sees on its dual-class Mint transcontinental flying, executives said.
LCC Vietjet plans to become the third airline to enter the nonstop Vietnam-Australia market, starting with a route not yet served by either of the incumbent carriers.
Japanese LCCs Peach and Vanilla Air, which are both subsidiaries of All Nippon Airways (ANA), are reportedly holding discussions regarding a potential merger.
Pratt & Whitney aims to complete re-delivery to Airbus of the last of 55 rectified PW1100G engines affected by the recent knife edge seal issue by the end of April, but acknowledges the problem has cost the engine maker $50 million.
Boeing test pilots completed a 3 hr., 10 min. first flight of the 737-7, the third and smallest member of the 737 MAX family, when the aircraft landed at Boeing Field in Seattle March 16.
United Technologies Corp. (UTC), which is in the process of buying Rockwell Collins, signed an agreement with ultra-important customer Boeing, representing a green light for UTC’s Rockwell acquisition and the consolidation of major aerospace suppliers.
Lufthansa Group said it has been forced to slow down its 2018 capacity expansion because it is struggling to find additional aircraft and the build-up of low-fare unit Eurowings is taking longer than expected.
Ryanair said it would offer all its pilots in Germany direct employment contracts after the agency supplying pilots to the LCC in Germany said it would stop providing them.
Lithuanian leisure carrier Small Planet Airlines said it would add six Airbus aircraft to its fleet in 2018, bringing the total up to 28, and is poised to become the largest carrier in the Baltic States in terms of passengers, fleet and revenue this year.
Santiago, Chile-based LATAM Airlines Group reported a $155.3 million net profit for 2017, more than doubling the group’s $69.2 million in net income in 2016, on the back of the company’s highest full-year operating income ($715 million, up 25.8% from 2016) since its formative merger six years ago. LATAM met its operating margin guidance for the year, reaching 7%, up from 6% in 2016.
United Airlines is “actively pursuing” more used aircraft and sees its recently activated strategy of adding second-hand lift as a long-term play that provides more fleet flexibility, a top executive said.
FAA expects to save money by retiring some existing radar systems as early as 2020, once the shift is made to automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) as its primary means of aircraft surveillance.
Cleveland-based TransDigm Group bought the Kirkhill elastomers business from Esterline Technologies for $50 million in cash, the companies said March 15.
Air Canada's recently-announced plans to increase frequencies on several North American leisure routes next winter includes swapping Rouge-branded Boeing 767-300s to mainline flying with 737-8s.
