The FAA has selected Astronautics Corporation of America (ACA) to develop and test methods to evaluate the vulnerability of aircraft onboard networks to cyberattacks.
There are fewer than 378 days until the FAA’s authorization runs out, and you can expect almost every one to them to be devoted to debating whether air traffic control (ATC) should be handed over to the private sector.
Delta Air Lines and JetBlue Airways recently announced they would add service in each other’s key markets, adding competition to routes in both Boston and Atlanta.
Reorganization efforts at cabin and seat supplier Zodiac Aerospace seem to be paying off, as “recovery is well on track” and the company will be back on “industrial operational performance” by the end of 2017, according to CEO Olivier Zarrouati.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has formally tightened rules on setting up airlines, around five months after it made an unannounced decision to suspend authorizations.
The South African government says it still hopes its flag carrier can be turned around, and has instructed South African Airways’ new board to begin the process of appointing a new CEO and CFO.
Two Chinese airlines have dropped plans to buy a total of 11 Boeing 787s, switching to 737 MAX aircraft because of government pressure, industry sources said.
MRO and support provider AAR said Sept. 14 it has acquired Sonic Aviation, an aircraft paint stripping and washing business at Miami International Airport.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says he expects his air transport OEM to show a book-to-bill ratio of new orders to deliveries of “around 1” when final 2016 financial results are provided next year.
Major information technology (IT) meltdowns—like those that occurred this summer at Delta Air Lines and Southwest Airlines, bringing down their entire reservations systems for days—are not indicative of underlying infrastructure problems, but are related to the necessary complexity of airline systems, the chairman and CEO of American Airlines said.
The notion that U.S. airline flight-arrival times are becoming more reliable is misleading, because carriers are increasing schedule-block times to account for air traffic control (ATC) inefficiencies, the CEOs of American Airlines and JetBlue Airways said.