Spanish LCC Volotea made a €15 million ($17 million) investment ahead of the 2019 summer season to implement measures that include coordinating flight operations with standby aircraft, adding more crews and improving passenger service.
The development of Thales’ PureFlyt “extended” flight management system (FMS) marks an early step in the gradual introduction of the connected cockpit concept, where the crew will be able to use data from the “open world.”
Momentum from the Paris Air Show is fading and Wall Street analysts are quickly taking a sobering financial view of the Boeing 737 MAX issue now that an extended grounding of the aircraft and halt in deliveries could drag into the fourth quarter, at least.
While the arrival of Japan Airlines’ (JAL) first Airbus A350 marks the start of a major transition in the carrier’s widebody fleet, it also represents a notable change for the country’s airline industry.
SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM) sees the 100 projects it had already completed by February 2019 as instrumental in reducing European air transport delays by 6.2 million minutes by 2030.
African LCC fastjet CEO Nico Bezuidenhout will leave the company at the end of September after three years to rejoin South African LCC Mango Airlines to lead its turnaround program.
EASA brought the roll-out of commercial vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) flights one step closer with the July 2 release of a special condition to enable the safe operation of hybrid and electric VTOL aircraft.
Significant changes will affect the popular Fiji leisure market as Fiji Airways plans to suspend an Australian route and Korean Air will terminate its flights to the Pacific island nation.
A budding collaboration between Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM) and Triumph Group is an example of the growing trend of aftermarket providers teaming up to serve a broader customer base by combining complementary geographic footprints and capabilities.
The aerospace and defense industry can be highly competitive, but rarely does one company lambaste another company’s entire business plan and management.
Aircraft seat power and connectivity provider Astronics has acquired Freedom Communication Technologies (FCT), a developer and manufacturer of communication test equipment for the land-based mobile radio test market, for $22 million in cash.
Recaro Aircraft Seating has set a new strategic target to become the dominant player in business class seats now that it is firmly established as the leading seat provider in the economy class market.
The climate impact from aircraft contrails will triple by 2050, increasing faster than aviation can reduce its carbon emissions, a new study by researchers at German aerospace center DLR has concluded.
Estonia’s Nordic Aviation Group (Nordica) has posted a €5.4 million ($6.1 million) full-year loss, just days after announcing a retraction from its Tallinn home market where Latvian rival airBaltic is poised for expansion.
South African Airways (SAA) has detailed plans to lease in Airbus A350-900s to operate its nonstop Johannesburg-New York JFK flights, replacing the A340-600s currently serving the route.
Aircraft lessor and MRO provider Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has repurchased a 4% shareholding that was held by Emaar Properties PJSC, returning the company to state ownership.
Universal Avionics is developing a supplemental type certificate (STC) for an Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) on the Airbus A320, thus paving the way for operators to retrofit their aircraft with a technology enabling low-visibility landing.
