A biofuels pilot plant to be built in Queensland by Australia’s Southern Oil Refining will supply fuels for the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy and could lead to a commercial-scale production facility that would also produce aviation biofuels for airlines.
Companies have started registering for the 52nd International Paris Air Show, which is slated to take place June 19-25 next year at the Le Bourget exhibition center northeast of the city.
The manufacturer confirms more than 4,000 jobs will be cut across the company’s Commercial Airplanes group by mid-year as part of cost reduction efforts announced in February.
Assembly of the first MRJ regional jets for delivery to customers will begin in the second half of this year, said Mitsubishi Aircraft, which added that meeting the initial production target will require full use of the plant’s capacity.
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said it has “no plans” to publish cockpit voice recorder (CVR) information from FlyDubai Flight 981, the Boeing 737-800 that crashed after a second attempted instrument approach in turbulent weather at the Rostov-on-Don Airport on March 19.
Europe’s newest airline lobbying group, Airlines for Europe (A4E), has deplored a new planned strike in France by air traffic controllers that is due to last 35 hr.
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.
