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.
United Airlines has become launch customer for a newly certified ‘hot-and-high’ performance improvement package developed by Embraer for the E175 airliner.
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Despite a U.S. Transportation Department administrative law judge’s finding, the FAA is holding firm to its contention that a SkyWest Airlines Bombardier CRJ200 crew departed from Salt Lake Citywith a layer of frost on the wings more than four years ago.
Demand for air travel in the U.S. in 2015 grew at the fastest pace since 2007, according to the FAA, which has slightly increased its 20-year annual growth rate forecast for U.S. airline traffic.
JetBlue Airways and Azul Brazilian Airlines have reached an agreement under which Azul will place its code on JetBlue flights from the Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Orlando.
Following its demonstrations of delivering car parts in New Zealand and medical supplies in rural Virginia, Australian startup Flirtey has completed the first FAA-approved package delivery by unmanned aircraft to a house.
Five years ago, the FAA forecast the number of small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in U.S. airspace would grow to 25,000 by 2020 and 30,000 by 2030.
Tata Sons Ltd., which controls India’s diversified Tata Group, and some of its executives plan to become 51% shareholders in AirAsia India, an arm of Malaysian LCC AirAsia Bhd., paving the way for further investment, the company said.
The closure of Brussels Airport due to the March 22 terror attacks has cost Brussels Airlines a “double-digit” amount of lost revenue and additional expenses, and could jeopardize its new route to Toronto.
Rolls-Royce has begun flight tests of the upgraded Trent 1000 TEN for Boeing’s 787 but faces a compressed schedule to meet entry-into-service targets in 2017 and 2018.
About 265 eligible hourly workers at Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing’s biggest supplier, have signed up for a voluntary retirement program offered to Machinists union members at its Wichita facility.
The fleet strategies of many airlines are beginning to be influenced by sustained low oil prices, as flying older aircraft for longer becomes more economically viable.
Fast-growing Etihad Airways is expected to defer deliveries of a number of Boeing 787-9s and Airbus A350s in 2016 and 2017, according to sources familiar with the orders.
Five workers associated with a Falcon 50EX that crashed into a snowplow on the runway at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport in October 2014 could soon be tried in criminal court.
