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Virgin Galactic said dramatic improvements to the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) hybrid rocket motor will significantly shorten the test-flight program for the company’s new suborbital vehicle to be used for space tourism, unveiled here last week.
The terminal for Phase 1 of Beijing’s new airport, Daxing, will be complete by July 2019, according to contracts awarded to two state construction companies last week.
Several proposals—including a renewed push for expanded drug and alcohol testing and new background checks—have the maintenance industry keeping a close eye on the recently introduced FAA reauthorization bill.
Republic Airways says it will have a single fleet type and one operating certificate by the end of 2016, though the company is not yet ready to share how it will implement its plan.
Southwest Airlines is considering adding airline partnerships in the coming years, according to Dave Harvey, managing director for business development.
Copa Airlines’ results continue to be dragged down by macroeconomic weaknesses in some of its largest markets, a situation the carrier does not expect to improve in the first half of this year.
Norwegian Air Shuttle is entering Air France’s lucrative transatlantic market and will begin flights from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) to three U.S. destinations.
Dutch prosecutors hope to confirm by this summer the launch site of the Buk surface-to-air missile that was used to shoot down Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014.
In preparing facilities and support infrastructure for the MRJ, Mitsubishi Aircraft is looking at follow-on programs. Meanwhile, the first flight-test aircraft is back in the air, and the company has found its first lessor customer.
Reacting to a “toxic fare environment,” Virgin America’s CEO has told analysts the airline would rather record lower load factors at Dallas Love Field than match American Airlines and Southwest Airlines on price.
Australian investigators say there were 86 pilot incapacitation incidents reported in the country’s “high-capacity” aircraft operations from 2010-14, 45 of which were caused by gastrointestinal illnesses, including food poisoning.
Airlines in Europe will have to pay damages not just to passengers, but also their employers, when flights are canceled or delayed, the EU’s Court of Justice ruled on Feb. 17.
The U.S. and Japan have reached a landmark agreement that will allow the switch of the four slot pairs at Tokyo Haneda Airport allocated to U.S. carriers to the daytime and provide one additional daytime pair and a new nighttime pair for scheduled service to the U.S.
If Air Canada takes 45 Bombardier C Series aircraft, as it signaled on Feb. 17 that it would, the carrier plans to use the first 25 to replace its Embraer 190 fleet, with the rest going toward fulfilling incremental growth, executives said on the carrier’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call.
