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France’s air navigation service provider DSNA is modernizing Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport’s (CDG) approach control center and air traffic management (ATM) systems at en-route control centers, in a bid to increase capacity.
Norwegian Air Shuttle has denied it is scaling back its expansion in Italy, following a statement by Italian pilots’ union ANPAC that linked the carrier’s decision to remove Boeing 737s from Rome to a wider move to withdraw from Italy.
Flag-carrier Garuda Indonesia and LCC Lion Air are reconsidering their orders for the Boeing 737 MAX, following the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET302 crash and the worldwide grounding of the aircraft. The Indonesian transport safety committee (KNKT) also plans to accelerate the release of the accident report for Lion Air Flight JT610, which crashed in October 2018.
Rep. Sam Graves (R-Missouri), the ranking member of the U.S. House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, said the decision by countries in Europe and Asia to ground Boeing 737 MAX aircraft after the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash was premature, adding “up until [Mar. 13], there was no reason to ground these planes from the U.S. point-of-view.”
Air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in the UK and Canada later this month will start a joint trial of space-based surveillance of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic, a capability that will deliver immediate safety and capacity benefits for oceanic travel.
Etihad Airways recorded another major loss in 2018, although the company pointed to gradually improving results from its five-year transformation project.
Embraer on Mar. 14 confirmed it delivered 91 executive jets and 90 commercial jets last year, in line with what the Brazilian aircraft maker advised in January, but its financial results for 2018 and expectations over closing two Boeing mergers left analysts and investors underwhelmed.
China Eastern Airlines plans to eventually station 200 aircraft at the new Beijing Daxing International Airport set to open this year, Chairman Liu Shaoyong said.
Lufthansa would have “ordered less aircraft” from Airbus if the manufacturer had not agreed to take back six Airbus A380s, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said Mar. 14.
A series of bilateral aviation safety agreements reached by the governments of the U.S. and UK ensure that cooperation on air travel and aviation safety will remain mostly unchanged in the event of a “no-deal” Brexit.
French air accident investigation agency BEA has received the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) that were recovered from the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash site.
Refined satellite tracking data combined with some non-defined physical evidence from the wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines crash site prompted Canada, and then the U.S., to ground the Boeing 737 MAX.
The global grounding of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is causing major operational headaches for many Asia-Pacific airlines, as they scramble to adjust their schedules to replace MAXs.
The U.S. FAA, relying on refined satellite tracking data and new physical evidence that more closely links two crashes of Boeing 737 MAX 8s, grounded Boeing’s newest narrowbody Mar. 13, hours after a similar move by Canadian regulators.
