HNA Group is negotiating orders for possibly 470 narrowbody aircraft, split between Airbus and Boeing, an industry source familiar with the talks said.
Spirit AeroSystems leaders said Feb. 1 they know progress must be made on negotiating a master contract with primary customer Boeing, but that they have finished a significant amount of work in justifying their cost structure as part of the deal making.
Emirates Airline continues to focus on the U.S., despite continued pushback from some U.S. carriers. Emirates is one of three Gulf airlines that U.S. carriers, including Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines, say are benefiting from illegal subsidies (The other two Gulf carriers are Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways.).
Honeywell Aerospace is investigating ways to make its synthetic vision systems “more robust” following a June 18 incident in Australia involving a medevac Pilatus PC-12 outfitted with the company’s Primus Apex integrated avionics suite.
American Airlines is calling for the U.S. Transportation Department not to renew Air China’s route authority for a Beijing-Houston flight until the Civil Aviation Administration of China gives American slots for its planned Los Angeles-Beijing flights.
Delta Air Lines has restored the system outage that forced it to cancel more than 150 flights Jan. 29, and is not addressing U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweet blaming the carrier for airport delays.
Under an agreement between the FAA and the city of Santa Monica, California, the Santa Monica Airport will remain open through 2028, although its runway will be shortened, impacting larger business jet traffic.
The executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump barring nationals from seven countries from entering the U.S. led to “confusion among both airlines and travelers,” and has placed a number of “burdens” on airlines, according to IATA.
Pilots for Seattle-based Horizon Air—the regional subsidiary of Alaska Airlines—filed a lawsuit Jan. 27 claiming that Horizon executives “broke faith with the negotiation process and began making unilateral changes to compensation,” violating the terms of the Railway Labor Act.
Qantas and American Airlines have backed away from some aspects of their codeshare arrangements, as they prepare to refile their application for a stronger partnership.
Qantas has opened a new maintenance hangar at Los Angeles International Airport. The facility will give the carrier more capacity for its own widebody aircraft, and allow it to target third-party maintenance work.
