Detailed MCAS instruction and revamped emergency procedures are key elements to ensuring a safe return to service for the grounded Boeing 737 MAX fleet, say pilots.
International Airlines Group’s (IAG) has launched the latest round of its Hangar 51 innovation program—in which successful startups specializing in ‘disruptive’ travel technologies potentially secure funding from the airline group to scale up their business.
Chinese LCC Spring Airlines intends to lift its fleet total close to 100 in 2019 with additional A320neo deliveries, and the airline is also due to begin taking A321neos in 2020.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has released a list of international air route applications by Chinese carriers, including six new routes.
The already delayed first flight of the Boeing 777-9, currently targeted for the end of June, looks set to be pushed back again after an ‘anomaly’ was detected in a General Electric GE9X engine undergoing pre-delivery factory tests.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) moved to further limit non-family travel to Cuba as part of an administration-wide effort to assert greater pressure on the country over its human rights record and support for the regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
Boeing—looking at the health of its 737 production system and supply chain while MAX deliveries are halted and monthly manufacturing slowed—has a plan for raising production rates that includes potentially helping with financing for suppliers.
A group of French politicians is proposing to ban some internal flights in a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions in an amendment to a law on future mobility.
The Senate panel considering the nomination of former Delta Air Lines executive Steve Dickson to head the FAA is reviewing allegations from a previously-undisclosed lawsuit that allege Delta management engaged in retaliation against a pilot in 2016, while Dickson was serving as SVP-flight operations.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified Aireon to provide surveillance services in support of aircraft separations, the first such approval, the company announced June 4.
A Canadian real estate developer is attempting to derail Air Canada’s planned acquisition of Air Transat by making a more valuable offer for the leisure carrier’s parent company.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is negotiating with Bombardier for an undisclosed transaction involving the CRJ regional jet, both companies said, amid reports that the Japanese company will buy the program.
Online shopping giant Amazon on June 5 revealed its latest design for a delivery drone, rolling out a shrouded, multi-rotor aircraft capable of vertical and wing-borne flight.
Asia-Pacific carriers are still grappling with many of the issues that eroded their profitability in 2018 the head of the region’s major airline industry group said.
Nearly five years after it launched all-business class service between Paris and New York, niche carrier La Compagnie is providing 25% of the business class capacity between the two cities and preparing to introduce its first Airbus A321neo on June 6.
U.S. Rep. John Garamendi (D-California), a senior member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee, plans to re-introduce legislation this summer that would require carriers to disclose more information about their maintenance activities to the public.
Two crashes, 346 deaths, almost three months of groundings and a steady stream of new revelations about the Boeing 737 MAX still may have not much dented the aircraft’s image in the public’s mind, a public poll run by part of investment company UBS has suggested.
The marketplace for urban air mobility for the masses is not expected to take off for several more years, but once it does it could become a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that upends traditional helicopter manufacturing, suggest new consultant studies on electrically powered vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
South African domestic carrier Comair has acquired fellow-South African leasing and cargo specialist Star Air, as part of its continuing strategy of diversification.
