The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) is proposing to approve antitrust immunity for the joint venture (JV) between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico—but with conditions including the divestiture of slots in Mexico City and at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The NTSB said fatigue cracking is a likely suspect in the rupture of a GE CF6-80C2 turbofan engine high-pressure turbine second-stage disc that occurred when an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER was taking off from Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Oct. 28.
Tougher market conditions in making and selling commercial aircraft, as well as increased focus on business execution, will remain the order of the day well into 2017, according to consulting giant Accenture.
The group, which owns British Airways (BA), Iberia, Vueling and Aer Lingus, has identified tougher-than-expected conditions in many of its key markets, leading to overcapacity and lower-than-predicted average yields.
The Singapore Airlines (SIA) group plans to complete the integration of its two LCC subsidiaries by placing them under a single brand and operating license.
The UK Parliament has begun a formal investigation into the problems surrounding the start of operations of a new airport on the overseas territory of St. Helena.
Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Co. (Gameco) has become Satair Group’s first Chinese customer for its Airbus Managed Inventory (AMI) service, an automated inventory management solution.
Air France-KLM is launching a new initiative to fight back against growing competition from Persian Gulf carriers and will create a new airline for medium- and long-haul routes.
The latest financial results from Singapore Airlines show it is not immune to the revenue pressure that is afflicting many other Asian full-service carriers.
Teams of investigators working under the auspices of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) have refined several analyses and conducted additional research in an effort to reconstruct the final minutes of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) and to refine the search area in the southern Indian Ocean.
U.S. LCC Southwest Airlines could explore more joint venture and partnership opportunities with aftermarket providers during the next decade as its expansion continues with the introduction of more aircraft and engines.
Ryanair has long ruled out that it would serve airports like London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Frankfurt, because of the high costs involved
Accident investigators are puzzling over the causes of the first ever failure of a second-stage high-pressure turbine stage on a General Electric CF6-80C2 engine which suffered an uncontained release of debris during the Oct. 28 takeoff run of an American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER from Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
