Southwest Airlines, which recently was awarded four slots at Long Beach Airport near Los Angeles, said on March 31 that it will operate four flights to Oakland International Airport most days, starting in June.
Airports across Europe and national authorities have stepped up their security measures following the terror attacks at the Brussels Airport departures hall March 22, but European Commission (EC) experts and the bloc’s member-states are against immediate implementation of a stringent EU-wide regime to bolster security at the landside areas of airports.
Winnipeg’s NewLeaf Travel Co., which has a business model akin to an ultra-LCC but does not operate any aircraft under its own certificate, can resume startup plans now that the Canadian Transportation Agency has determined—on March 29—that the company does not need its own air license.
Boeing is preparing to start key fuel burn tests of the 737 MAX that could prove pivotal in the model’s long-running market battle with the reengined Airbus A320neo.
Virgin Atlantic Airways is launching two new U.S. routes from England’s Manchester Airport, further strengthening its refocus on the transatlantic market.
An independent analysis of the latest unmanned aerial system sighting reports released by the FAA concludes that slightly more than one-third of incidents involved close encounters, and one-third of those involved multi-engine jet aircraft.
Alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) biofuel has passed balloting at standards developer ASTM international, and is expected to be approved for use in aircraft by early April.
A biofuels pilot plant to be built in Queensland by Australia’s Southern Oil Refining will supply fuels for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy and could lead to a commercial-scale production facility that would also produce aviation biofuels for airlines.
Companies have started registering for the 52nd International Paris Air Show, which is slated to take place June 19-25 next year at the Le Bourget exhibition center northeast of the city.
The manufacturer confirms more than 4,000 jobs will be cut across the company’s Commercial Airplanes group by mid-year as part of cost reduction efforts announced in February.
Assembly of the first MRJ regional jets for delivery to customers will begin in the second half of this year, said Mitsubishi Aircraft, which added that meeting the initial production target will require full use of the plant’s capacity.
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said it has “no plans” to publish cockpit voice recorder (CVR) information from FlyDubai Flight 981, the Boeing 737-800 that crashed after a second attempted instrument approach in turbulent weather at the Rostov-on-Don Airport on March 19.
Europe’s newest airline lobbying group, Airlines for Europe (A4E), has deplored a new planned strike in France by air traffic controllers that is due to last 35 hr.
Fewer than six months after a bomb brought down a Metrojet Airbus A321-200 over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, the country has faced another security incident with the hijacking of an EgyptAir domestic flight on March 29.
