South African domestic carrier Comair has acquired fellow-South African leasing and cargo specialist Star Air, as part of its continuing strategy of diversification.
A petition circulating on Capitol Hill calling on the Trump Administration to take action on Qatar Airways over its support for Air Italy has generated a backlash from an industry coalition including airports, cargo carriers, U.S. travelers and JetBlue.
La Reunion-based Air Austral said it had grounded one of its Boeing 787-8s for at least two months following a June 3 planned check of the Trent 1000 engines that power it, leaving it looking for solutions to maintain its flight schedules over the peak summer season.
Hawaiian Airlines is objecting to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) decision to award it just one of twelve available daytime slot pairs to Tokyo Haneda Airport, arguing the DOT’s most recent route allocation proceeding revealed a “prevailing, longstanding bias against smaller air carriers.”
Thai Airways’ expanded fleet acquisition plan is progressing toward the final stages of government review before a major aircraft order can be placed, a senior airline executive said.
Russian industrial giant Rostec has exhibited its first ten serial T-500 agricultural aircraft and plans to launch a new assembly facility for the type.
Indian LCC SpiceJet is expecting dramatic fleet growth this year, as it leases aircraft formerly operated by Jet Airways and eyes the resumption of Boeing MAX deliveries.
Honeywell on June 3 unveiled a compact flight-control computer designed to drive electric actuators and dynamically adjust flight surfaces and motors of urban air mobility (UAM) vehicles.
South African Airways (SAA) CEO Vuyani Jarana has resigned from his post, a source close to the Star Alliance member told Aviation Daily on the sidelines of the IATA AGM in Seoul June 2.
Sri Lankan Airlines has nearly completed a revised version of its business plan, and is close to reaching a deal with Airbus to swap A350 orders to A330neos.
Korean Air is planning to compete more vigorously against the LCCs that are increasingly moving into Korean’s markets, the airline’s chairman Walter Cho said.
Dutch carrier KLM has teamed up with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to work on a wide-fuselage long-haul concept aircraft, known as the Flying-V, which would carry 314 passengers.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on June 3 tentatively granted antitrust immunity (ATI) for American Airlines and Australian flag carrier Qantas to operate a joint venture (JV) between the U.S. and Australia/New Zealand, paving the way for the pair to expand coordination across planning, pricing, sales and logistics.
Airbus CCO Christian Scherer says he is “not worried about a slowdown” in aircraft demand in spite of lower airline profitability and the risk of trade wars.
Ethiopian Airlines remains a “very strong brand” although the financial impact of the crash of one of its Boeing 737 MAXs and the subsequent global grounding of the MAX fleet is not yet known, the carrier’s chief executive said.
IATA has downgraded its industry profit outlook for 2018, as revenue increases are not expected to keep pace with costs, putting more pressure on margins.
The de Havilland name has returned to aircraft manufacturing with completion of the $300 million sale of the Dash 8 program by Bombardier to Canada’s Longview Aircraft Capital.
Operators of more than 300 newer Boeing 737s—including nearly half of the in-service MAXs—will be ordered to inspect slat tracks and remove parts identified as being from a batch that may not meet Boeing’s production requirements, the FAA and the company said June 2.
