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The Buenos Aires-based carrier is planning to offer the lowest prices in the Argentine market, and hopes to be able to carry 8 million passengers in 2021.

Additions to the plan are weighted toward the south and especially the west of China.

Embraer is forming innovation teams and opening a Global Business Center at its Melbourne, Florida, facility this month to explore “disruptive technologies” related to any aspect of air transportation. &n

Alitalia plans to save €1 billion ($1.1 billion) over three years and to cut 20 aircraft from its narrowbody aircraft fleet by 2018.

Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia have selected a shortlist of about six companies that could potentially provide biofuel for the carriers’ fleets.

China’s HNA Group has further expanded its influence in Asian aviation by agreeing to invest in Asiana Airlines’ South Korean parent, Kumho Holdings.

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Embattled aircraft interiors provider Zodiac Aerospace’s latest poor financial results represent new information for aspiring acquirer Safran.

After years of conflict and a total of 29 strike days, Lufthansa and its pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit appear to have finally reached an agreement that solves all contentious issues.

A who’s-who of U.S. aerospace and defense companies is offering industry cover to Republican-led tax revisions.

Two U.S. airlines are calling it quits in Cuba, a few months after starting service to the island.

The online retailer has been testing drone delivery since April 2016, beginning with a one-month pilot program delivering golf balls to players on a course near Tokyo.

The airline expects to have 40 daily flights to 28 destinations from San Diego by late August.

China Eastern Airlines plans to open a service between Houston and Shanghai this year, while also adding two European services.

In comments accompanying its annual results, Cathay said it expects to achieve productivity and efficiency gains related to its corporate restructuring.

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Aviation Performance Solutions, a provider of upset prevention and recovery training, has launched two Airbus-specific UPRT programs to counter the continued threat of loss of control inflight accidents.

Lufthansa plans to pay only about half the regular passenger fees on routes it will operate in direct competition with Ryanair, according to company sources.

While the Airbus A321LR is taking a leading role in Air Astana’s fleet, the carrier is considering whether it still wants three Boeing 787s that it ordered in 2012.

The SIA Group will add four new Indian destinations to its network as a result of the Vistara codeshare.

Turkish Airlines is slowing down its planned capacity growth further over the next five years, as the airline struggles to cope with the fallout of Turkey’s strained political relations.

Boeing’s decision to set up a Chinese completion center for 737s is likely to be rewarded with orders from an airline based in the same province.

The first stage of the complex will include a four-bay maintenance hangar and a paint hangar. IIAC will lease land to the maintenance hangar tenant, which will be responsible for its construction and operation.

“The 30 Boeing 737 MAXs in our portfolio provide the competitive advantages of fuel efficiency, reliability and passenger experience [our customers] are looking for in the single-aisle airplane,” CDB Aviation CEO Peter Chang said.

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) has granted American Airlines’ request to delay the start of its proposed Los Angeles-Beijing service until Sept. 16.