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Air Asia X (AAX) has given its strongest signal yet that it intends to launch a flight to Istanbul.

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.

The labor group representing Hawaiian Airlines pilots is making symbolic strike preparations, although the airline stresses that...

Hong Kong Airlines has ordered more Airbus A330-300s, which it will use to help maintain its high fleet growth rate.

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.

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American Airlines has increased starting pay significantly at two of its three regional subsidiaries, Envoy Air and PSA Airlines.

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.

The slippage implies a delay in the undisclosed target for first delivery, which in the first half of this year was 2019.

Declines in average global yields have intensified over the last six months, according to IATA.

The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for proposals for the development of the next Air Force One fleet.

Vietjet’s Thai franchise has reached an important stage of development as it grows beyond its initial Vietnamese routes.

The decision is a major blow for Airbus, which has been desperately trying to promote the aircraft.

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The crisis of extremely long lines at U.S. airport security checkpoints has largely been alleviated, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly said.

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.

China Southern Airlines, aiming at building up operations at Urumqi, China, proposes to connect the northwestern Chinese city with Vienna.

Patient investors are likely to be rewarded by U.S. airlines in the long run, despite near-term negative unit revenue trends and sluggish stock price growth, two leading industry analysts predicted.

The U.S. NTSB is recommending that the FAA, Boeing and airlines explore and mitigate a relatively obscure directional-control problem linked to aircraft with tail-mounted engines.

The airline will initially base two Airbus A320s at the Spanish airport. From there, it will serve several destinations in Germany and elsewhere in Europe.

Boeing forecasts 6.4% annual growth in passenger traffic for Chinese airlines through 2035, with international business expanding faster than domestic.