Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has received two development flight-simulators for its C919 narrowbody program, following a change of supplier.
The U.S.’s effort to reduce wrong-surface operations ranges from airport-specific changes to more basic tactics, such as refusing visual approaches in favor of technology-aided guidance.
American Airlines is looking at additional ways to leverage a surface-management and communications tool that has improved taxiing efficiency and reduced radio traffic between pilots and controllers at two of its hubs.
ZeroAvia—a startup investigating the use of hydrogen fuel cells for sustainable green aviation—has secured a £2.7 million ($3.4 million) research grant from the British government.
The FAA has rolled out its new taxiway-landing alert system at 13 airports and is confident that all 35 facilities getting the enhancement will be up and running by October 2020, the agency’s top runway safety official confirmed.
The French government wants the would-be buyers of Aigle Azur’s activities to improve their bids and take on more of its employees, France’s secretary of state for transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said Sept. 17.
A deadline for would-be investors in Alitalia to present their business plan for the relaunch of the bankrupt carrier has been extended by one month, a union source told Aviation Daily.
The FAA and several stakeholders are progressing toward the next major step in the U.S.’s remote air traffic control (ATC) tower evaluation effort, readying Northern Colorado Regional Airport (FNL) to join the program this fall.
United Airlines has signed a new, multi-year agreement with Expedia Group, resolving a bitter legal dispute that threatened the companies’ years-long partnership.
The rate of equipage for the FAA’s automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) mandate increased by 69% across aviation segments between 2018-2019, the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General (IG) has reported in a letter to Congress.
Scandinavian LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle has secured some financial breathing space, after its bondholders voted in favor of changes to their investment terms.
A U.S. appeals court has revived an eight-year-old antitrust complaint filed by US Airways against global distribution system (GDS) provider Sabre, rekindling a case that could lead to changes in how GDS platforms structure their contracts with airlines.
Aerostructure and wiring specialist Latecoere is preparing to demonstrate the use of Li-Fi—light signal transmission via optical fiber and light-modulation infrared LEDs—as the infrastructure for faster inflight entertainment (IFE) systems.
A guidance system designed to help pilots fly complex low-noise approaches has been flight tested at Zurich Airport by German aerospace center DLR using its Airbus A320 advanced technology research aircraft (ATRA).
Nerves are fraying over the pending release of another World Trade Organization (WTO) decision in the long-running commercial airliner subsidy spat between Airbus and Boeing, with industry observers preparing for a ruling favorable to the U.S. and Boeing that deepens a trade war with Europe.
