Virgin America is reducing its flights at Dallas Love Field, although the carrier will still use its two gates at the airport and may resume growth later.
Alaska Airlines is shifting its strategy in Portland, Oregon, to give its second-largest hub a more national network, an executive at the airline said.
A London-based activist hedge fund is challenging Safran Group’s proposed $9 billion acquisition of embattled seat maker Zodiac Aerospace, arguing the major aircraft engine and parts provider pay out its shareholders instead of buying the cabin-interiors provider.
Lufthansa and its pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit have agreed to a mediation proposal that settles a dispute over wages—but longstanding broader issues remain unresolved.
The airline said the delays interrupted its pilot training schedule for the new aircraft type, and led it to wet-lease additional capacity during the last three months of 2016.
PAL-V of the Netherlands has unveiled its first production flying car, the Liberty, while U.S. company SkyRunner has begun sales of an off-road vehicle that can fly using a ram-air parafoil wing and pusher propeller.
Airbus is working on a redesign of its A320 Sharklet wingtips as a result of developing a new design manufacturing process for the foil of a high-speed yacht competing in this year’s America’s Cup race.
FRANKFURT—Emirates Airline is considering a major deviation from its existing business model, as the carrier is considering ordering narrowbody aircraft. The company’s President Tim Clark told CNN that he has three different proposals in front of him: a narrowbody aircraft order; a mixed order for some number of narrowbody and twin-aisle aircraft; and a pure widebody aircraft order. No decision will be made within the next 18 months, Clark said.
