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Italian industrial holding company Leonardo has withdrawn from Russian joint venture Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), which designs and manufactures the Sukhoi Superjet 100.

Italian industrial holding company Leonardo has withdrawn from Russian joint venture Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC), which designs and manufactures the Sukhoi Superjet 100.

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Optimism and customer interest in the business jet market rose in January and are now at post-crisis highs, according to a new UBS Business Jet Market Survey.

A landing gear issue with an Emirates Airbus A380 landing in Dubai has prompted the United Arab Emirates Air Accident Investigation Sector to call for a mandatory A380 fleetwide inspection.

Delta Air Lines is “very excited” about the infrastructure spending and tax plans put forward by President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

Mauro Moretti, CEO of Leonardo, has reiterated his demand that the ATR regional airliner joint venture with Airbus needs to begin development of a 100-seat aircraft.

Two executives from ultra-LCC Frontier Airlines have recently departed, an airline spokesperson confirmed.

Brussels Airlines agreed to wet-lease three Sukhoi Superjet 100s from CityJet, starting this spring.

Airbus does not aim at moving the A330-900 range up to 787-9 levels, as it offers the A350-900 for longer range segments, but it does see the need to provide operators with the option to fly somewhat longer sectors.

Worldwide air freight traffic increased 6.8% year-over year in November, a 20-month high, according to the IATA Freight Market analysis.

Indonesian authorities are allowing Tigerair Australia to fly stranded passengers from Bali back to Australia, although the carrier’s regular services on its Bali routes remain suspended.

Thai Airways is due to take delivery of five more Airbus A350s in 2017, and expects to receive the next in April, an airline spokesman tells Aviation Daily.

Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly dismissed questions that he is planning to retire soon, but he acknowledged that succession planning had a role in the appointment of Thomas Nealon as president.

United Airlines will retire its Boeing 747-400 fleet by the fourth quarter of 2017, a year earlier than previously announced.

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Iran Air sees significant geographic advantages for a hub airport in Teheran, Iran, compared with three Persian Gulf carriers’ hubs, but warns infrastructure delays will likely mean connecting traffic can only be developed slowly.

The FAA is proposing 12 new high-altitude jet routes along the U.S. East Coast, part of a modernization strategy to replace legacy ground-referenced routes with GPS-based, performance-based navigation (PBN) routes.

Japan’s Vanilla Air plans to launch new routes from Osaka and Tokyo over the next few months as the LCC looks to expand its domestic network.

Tigerair Australia had to abruptly halt all of its flights to Bali after Indonesian authorities changed the terms of the LCC’s authorization to serve the popular tourist destination.

Alaska Airlines is adding a handful of new routes to boost its summer schedule at its secondary hub in Portland, Oregon.

The latest Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ prototype to arrive at the program’s U.S. test base has begun flying there.

South Korean LCC Jeju Air is boosting its fleet with orders for three Boeing 737-800s, which will be the airline’s first owned aircraft.

TOULOUSE – Airbus is sticking to its plans to ramp up production despite the recent slowdown of aircraft orders, the manufacturer insisted at its annual press conference here.

Southwest Airlines has named Thomas Nealon as the carrier’s president, with Gary Kelly retaining his title of CEO. Nealon had been Southwest’s