The European Commission (EC) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will continue to “closely” monitor aviation safety in Thailand, but neither the country nor its airlines have been included in the EU’s airline blacklist.
System-performance improvements, in part due to recent space-borne receiver software upgrades, should allow space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) provider Aireon to offer air navigation service providers (ANSPs) with both terrestrial and oceanic ADS-B surveillance capabilities.
Avic is setting up a second airline to operate its unpopular commercial turboprop, this time a specialist cargo carrier using the MA600F, the freighter version of the type.
Citing significant improvements in operational performance, United Airlines’ acting CEO said the company is successfully navigating the last few months’ rapid chief executive turnover.
Virgin America is confident it will add roughly five or six Airbus A320-family aircraft per year in 2017, 2018 and 2019, even though the carrier has not finalized how it will source them, CFO Peter Hunt said earlier this month.
Exploitation of crucial flight slots has been a key factor in the decision of SF Express—China’s largest freighter operator—to order Boeing 767-300s converted to freighters, the company says.
Avianca Brasil is going from 15% capacity growth in 2015, to adding no additional capacity next year, as the airline tries to deal with the economic recession in its home market.
Amazon has revealed the latest prototype of its Prime Air package-delivery small unmanned aircraft, and released a video suggesting ground and flight testing is well-advanced.
IATA boosted its 2015 collective net profit forecast for the world’s airlines to $33 billion and a 4.6% margin, up from a net profit of $29.3 billion and a 4% average net margin projected by the organization in June.
United Airlines will end its Washington Dulles-Dubai flight in January, in part because it says it cannot compete with “subsidized capacity” from Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways, the airline said on Wednesday.
