Boeing has secured its largest contract award yet for early design of America’s next presidential airliner, as the amount of time and money it takes to keep the current Air Force One fleet flying increases.
the first facility in Europe designed to recycle aeronautical-grade titanium is being built near Clermont-Ferrand, France, in a bid to reduce the region’s dependence on imports.
Mitsubishi has hired more expatriate experts to support its Seattle-based engineering center as well for as certification work at its Nagoya, Japan, headquarters, Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. President Hiromichi Morimoto said.
Japanese LCC Vanilla Air has taken a major step in its effort to develop Taipei, Taiwan, as a focus city, launching its first international one-stop flight beyond Taipei.
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25 Years Ago July 19, 1991—Pan Am and Delta Air Lines explore allowing bankrupt Pan Am to survive as a standalone entity. This follows Pan Am’s refusal to sell its Latin American routes to United Airlines for $200 million. Delta plans to buy Pan Am’s European routes, its Northeast U.S. shuttle and 45 aircraft for $260 million.
British Airways (BA) cabin crewmembers are increasingly concerned that a new performance-measurement plan is being used as a means to replace senior staff with employees on new contracts.
Boeing’s dual aftermarket and cost-cutting pushes are getting a boost from a new business deal the leading aircraft OEM has reached with technology icon Microsoft.
Passengers’ difficulty accessing Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) efficiently via surrounding roadways is a “huge, huge problem we need to fix,” Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) CEO Deborah Flint told the International Aviation Club of Washington, D.C.
Startup company Flying Whales believes it has found the right technologies and has conducted a convincing market assessment to thrive in large cargo airships. The first flight of the French company’s LCA60T is expected in three years.
Delta Air Lines signaled it will take steps to cut capacity to the U.K. in the coming months, in the wake of economic uncertainty caused by the U.K.’s vote to leave the EU, or “Brexit.”
KLM has joined the joint venture (JV) between Air France and China Eastern Airlines, and has added its KL code to the Chinese airline’s recently launched, four-times-weekly service between Shanghai Pudong International Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS).
Air Europa is moving full-speed-ahead with its ambitious growth plans, supported by a recent order for 20 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. But pilots are dissatisfied with low-cost spinoff Air Europa Express, and have called four days of strikes.
The short-term congressional bill extending FAA funding to the end of September 2017 directs the agency to continue opening U.S. airspace to unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The legislation also directs the agency to quantify and mitigate potential hazards posed by UAS in airspace around airports.
Chicago-based United Airlines has agreed to pay the U.S. government a financial penalty of $2.25 million for its conduct related to a federal bribery case, but the carrier will not be prosecuted criminally in the matter.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson wants to have agreements in place with the Cuban government to allow U.S. federal air marshals (FAM) to travel on flights into the U.S. from 10 Cuban airports, preferably before services start this fall.
