The U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will consider Stephen Dickson’s nomination for FAA administrator May 15, paving the way for the agency to receive its first confirmed leader since January 2018.
Allegiant Air’s fast-tracked shift to an all-Airbus fleet is paying dividends, numbers from its first full quarter since it parked its last McDonnell Douglas MD-80 show.
The head of a group representing U.S. flight attendants wants the FAA to form a working group to develop solutions that ensure carry-on baggage won’t present an obstacle to emergency aircraft evacuations.
UK airline passengers could be better protected if their airline collapses under proposals set out following a review of airline insolvency commissioned by the Department for Transport in the wake of Monarch Airlines’ 2017 collapse.
Nigeria and Burkina Faso have become the latest African states to sign the memorandum of implementation (MOI) for the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), removing all bilateral restrictions on intra-African flights.
Qantas says it is on track to fully offset higher fuel prices with revenue improvements in its current financial year, and the carrier has a generally positive demand outlook.
Scandinavian LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle is working to get around a temporary crew surplus at London Gatwick—a result of the carrier’s wetleasing of aircraft to compensate for remaining Boeing 787s still out of service for Rolls-Royce Trent engine checks.
Emirates Airline’s fiscal 2018-19 profits have fallen 69% to AED871 million ($237 million), under the strain of high fuel prices, “cut throat” competition and unfavorable exchange rates.
The sale of its semiconductor business and strong aerospace and defense end-markets seemingly propelled Astronics financials for the first quarter of 2019, but the supplier remains challenged by two lagging commercial aerospace business lines.
A Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 turboprop belonging to Biman Bangladesh Airlines was severely damaged after a hard landing at Myanmar’s Yangon International Airport on the evening of May 8.
The FAA has assembled a new, multi-agency Technical Advisory Board (TAB) to review the proposed software fix for the Boeing 737 MAX’s maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS).
The Trump administration’s decision to put the U.S. Export-Import Bank back in business is good news for aviation lessors, according to credit analysts.
Rolls-Royce is keeping to its original UltraFan future engine development plan and targeting a fast-paced series of tests through the remainder of 2019, despite its decision earlier this year to withdraw the geared-propulsion concept from Boeing’s new midmarket airplane (NMA) engine competition.
The world’s largest pilots’ union will not ask FAA to require additional mandatory simulator training on maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) scenarios for 737 MAX pilots before they can fly, but will recommend it as part of routine recurrent training.
Canadian carrier WestJet has no plans to add capacity for the peak summer season beyond the extension of one Boeing 737-700 lease though July, opting instead to modify its schedules to help cover for the absence of its grounded 737 MAXs.
A group representing U.S. airports is renewing calls for Congress to raise the cap on a local user fee that goes toward infrastructure improvements, arguing that record ancillary fee collections by airlines undermine claims that raising the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) cap would crimp passenger demand for air travel.
Taiwan’s China Airlines (CAL) has launched a narrowbody passenger aircraft and freighter replacement program that will include Airbus A321neos and Boeing 777 freighters.
Privately owned Polish carrier Enter Air has agreed to acquire 49% of Germania Flug, the former Swiss charter unit of Berlin-based leisure carrier Germania.
The U.S. Senate voted May 8 to confirm three nominees to the U.S. Export-Import Bank (EXIM) board of directors, providing the export credit agency a quorum for the first time since 2015.
