Components for the first LM-100J commercial freighter version of Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter are being manufactured, with final assembly to begin in Marietta, Georgia, later this year.
Air New Zealand is proposing tighter carbon offset requirements under the country’s emissions trading scheme (ETS), a move spurred by the carrier’s extensive sustainability initiative.
Allegiant Air competes head-to-head with so few airlines that it rarely observes legacy carriers deeply discounting on its routes, but it is seeing a “collateral damage effect” in smaller markets near larger cities, an airline executive said in an interview.
In hundreds of pages of documents filed to the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT), U.S. carriers interested in operating to Cuba laid out their arguments for why they should win the scarce frequencies to Havana.
Introduction of Airbus A350-900s this year will allow Taiwan’s China Airlines to replace one-stop services to two European destinations with direct flights. China Airlines is also planning to increase its Frankfurt service to daily beginning in June.
The Chinese government is forcing airlines to delay introduction of aircraft into their fleets, with the result that new and ready airliners are standing idle while the carriers could use more capacity.
Cathay Pacific Airways says lower oil prices have been a factor in the continuing weakness of the cargo market, as the trend has made it more economically viable for airlines to operate older aircraft such as Boeing 747-400Fs.
Malaysia’s main airport authority reports it is making substantial progress in addressing ground stability issues at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
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Swedish investigators say key flight-control parameters, including pitch angle and roll angle, appear to have been corrupted in the final seconds before the crash of a Bombardier CRJ200 freighter on Jan. 8.
Gogo will expand into China for the first time as part of a proposed deal announced on March 14 with Shareco Technologies, a Beijing-based connectivity company that has contracts with more than 10 Chinese airlines.
Times are once again good for mainline pilots, and business is strong enough that many do not want to waste time on petty squabbles. As a result, pilots at all four major U.S. carriers have either recently gained substantial pay increases, or expect to soon.
French aerospace and defense company Safran is looking at “potential options” for its security division after announcing plans to sell off its airport explosives detection business.
Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand have joined forces in their quest to start using biofuel, and the new arrangement could result in a combined supply deal.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries plans to expand its Canadian aerostructures operation, potentially bringing in work on the Mitsubishi Regional Jet and from another original equipment manufacturer to augment assembly operations for neighboring Bombardier.
Thai Airways President Charamporn Jotikasthira says the airline is halfway through a three-year restructuring program and aims at “sustainable growth” and a return to the U.S. in 2017.
