Aviation Daily

By Jens Flottau
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury warns that the introduction of tariffs in aerospace as a result of the two World Trade Organization (WTO) cases against the European Union and the U.S. would be “just a disaster.”
Air Transport

Zurich-based carrier Germania Flug AG has rebranded as Chair Airlines, effective July 1.
Air Transport

Ryanair subsidiary LaudaMotion is exploring a fifth base outside its German-speaking home market and is on track to operate at least 35 Airbus A320s by summer 2020.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
French manufacturer Latecoere is hoping to sign up the first airline customers for its Li-Fi system in 2020, Serge Berenger, Senior VP Innovation and R&T at the Toulouse-based manufacturer told Aviation Daily.
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
Thai LCC Nok Air has appointed Wutthiphum Jurangkool as its new CEO and executive director after the previous CEO Piya Yodmani left the post in August 2018.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Boeing “fell short” in communicating some key issues to 737 MAX customers, and the company is determined to ensure lessons learned from two accidents and the subsequent worldwide grounding include improving the information flow to operators, CEO Dennis Muilenburg acknowledged.
Air Transport

Intro Aviation, the new majority shareholder of French long-haul airline Corsair, plans to operate up to 15 Airbus A330 classics/A330neos and add new routes to North America.
Air Transport

By Polina Montag-Girmes
The Russian government’s legislative commission has proposed setting a zero percent value-added tax (VAT) for aircraft registered in Russia to boost civil aviation development.
Air Transport

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By Guy Norris
DERBY, England—Rolls-Royce has completed another key sub-assembly test for its future UltraFan engine family and, half way through a year of critical demonstrations, said so far there are no show-stoppers to assembling the first complete engine in 2020.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
An EU-backed project, which aims to produce jet fuel from concentrated sunlight, water and CO2, has synthesized its first ‘solar kerosene’ under real field conditions, validating its technology and paving the way for higher-scale production.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The chairman of Rome’s S.S. Lazio football club, Claudio Lotito, has become the latest possible investor to express interest in Italian flag carrier Alitalia, which has been under special administration since May 2017.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
A software design error that misinterprets GPS time updates is the root cause of Collins Aerospace GPS and multi-mode receiver malfunctions, the manufacturer has advised aircraft operators.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plans to debut its first Airbus A350 between Copenhagen and Chicago on Jan. 28, 2020, and will roll out the new aircraft type on seven routes throughout the year.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Southwest Airlines, citing uncertainty around when the Boeing 737 MAX will be cleared to resume revenue flying, has pulled its 34 737 MAX 8s from its schedule through Sept 2.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Asiana Airlines intends to add 34 new aircraft to its fleet over the next four years as it phases out many of its oldest models.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Iceland’s airport and air navigation services operator Isavia is re-opening Keflavik airport for the limited use of crosswind flight testing of new aircraft.
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
Chinese conglomerate HNA Group is in the process of reducing its shares in LCC Guangxi Beibu Gulf Airlines (GX Airlines) as part of the airline’s restructuring plans.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Indian stock exchanges have announced they will restrict trading of Jet Airways shares, in another sign that the prospects of resurrecting the grounded airline are increasingly bleak.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
On the eve of this year’s Paris Air Show, Boeing Commercial Airplanes senior leadership is downplaying the likelihood of major orders or product announcements while the company remains laser-focused on ungrounding the 737 MAX.

By Guy Norris
As part of a major shake-up of its regional jet strategy, Mitsubishi Aircraft has rebranded the former MRJ90 as the SpaceJet M90 and has announced details of the stretched MRJ70 redesign which will now be called the M100.
Air Transport

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By Sean Broderick
American Airlines’ recent removal of the Boeing 737 MAX from its schedules for two more weeks was made to ease the carrier’s pilot and cabin-crew bidding process, rather than due to signs of continued delay in getting the grounded fleet cleared to fly, CEO Doug Parker said.
Air Transport

Revelations of a second whistleblower allegation of management retaliation during Steve Dickson’s tenure as Delta Air Lines SVP-flight operations are further complicating his once-clear path to head the FAA.
Air Transport

By Maksim Pyadushkin
Russia’s deteriorated relations with the West following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 has had substantial consequences for the MC-21 program.
Air Transport