Deliveries of the 45 Airbus A330s in China’s latest order for the type will begin next year and extend until at least 2018, the manufacturer has said, adding that it fully expects Beijing to confirm an additional order for 30 so far covered only by a memorandum of understanding.
Thai carrier City Airways has agreed to acquire 10 Comac ARJ21-700s and 10 C919s through ICBC Leasing, greatly expanding a fleet that is currently composed of just four Boeing 737-400s.
Ryanair is delaying plans to establish a base at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) because there are not sufficient morning slots available, its chief executive said at a press conference held at the airport.
Air New Zealand has unveiled a sustainable development initiative it contends will place it amongst industry leaders on the issue, as well as improve its prospects for long-term business success.
Etihad Airways has secured $500 million in new funds for itself and several of its international airline affiliates in its first attempt at establishing a joint financing instrument for the group.
Philippine LCC Cebu Pacific is considering an order for new-generation widebody aircraft to expand the range of its international network, but in the short term it is also likely to boost its Airbus A330 fleet.
SAS will start operating a Boeing 737-700 between its Copenhagen hub and Newark International Airport next month to supplement its daily service aboard Airbus widebody aircraft.
The FAA will need until at least 2023 to complete a pilot-records database mandated by the U.S. Congress in 2010 as a result of the 2009 crash of a Continental Connection/Colgan Air Bombardier Q400 in Buffalo, New York.
Selex-ES has developed a system designed to detect, track and if necessary disable consumer-type UAVs, protecting civilian targets such as public events, airports and other infrastructure targets from illegal or threatening activity.
Later this year, Porter Airlines plans to fly its longest Bombardier Q400 route by far when it starts a new weekly service from Toronto to Melbourne, Florida, near Orlando.
Leaders from Republic Airways and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Local 357 will meet with representatives from the National Mediation Board on Sept. 16 to determine how to proceed with contract negotiations, the union’s president told Aviation Daily. The IBT is expected to present the company with a counterproposal to Republic’s last-best-and-final contract offer. However, it’s not clear whether Republic will be willing to negotiate, as executives have previously said they will not budge from their August offer.
Airbus is facing a delay of several weeks in completing production stations at its new final assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, but says it will catch up on the delay in the coming months.
Although EasyJet secured traffic rights between London and Moscow in 2012, the U.K. LCC is suspending operations to Russia, as demand continues to fall and the visa-approval process becomes more difficult.
As part of a larger strategy to retire its aging fleet of Boeing 737-400s, Alaska Airlines will turn some of its passenger aircraft into full freighters.
United Airlines sees major upside in its ability to increase ancillary revenue by using more-sophisticated pricing strategies and adding new products, Chief Revenue Officer Jim Compton said at a recent conference.
Norwegian air accident investigators have taken the unusual step of reclassifying an air safety incident as serious, almost five years after its occurrence.
The FAA is mending flaws in a new NextGen air traffic controller automated-decision support tool that is plagued by many of the same performance, reliability, training and procedural problems as its predecessor.
