The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) inspector general (IG) has initiated an audit of the FAA and industry program to provide timely, automated authorization of drone flights near airports.
Turkish Airlines reported a $755 million net profit for the first nine months of 2018—nearly tripled from a net profit of $263 million for the year-ago period.
Bombardier’s announcement that it will cut about 5,000 jobs in the next 12-18 months came as a “shock” to the Machinists Union, which represents 20,000 Bombardier workers in Quebec.
French Polynesian carrier Air Tahiti Nui (ATN) has taken the first step in its planned widebody fleet transition with the commercial debut of its first Boeing 787-9.
French civil aviation authority DGAC seized a Ryanair aircraft at Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD) Nov. 8 in a bid to force the LCC to pay back public funds that were judged illegal by the European Commission in 2014.
Barcelona-based Volotea, a LCC specializing in point-to-point service between Europe’s secondary cities, is planning on steady growth in fleet, network and revenues.
Rolls-Royce is replacing high pressure (HP) turbine blades on a limited population of Trent 700 engines powering the Airbus A330 following the emergence of corrosion issues which Rolls said are unrelated to the similar—but more widespread—intermediate pressure (IP) turbine corrosion problem impacting operators of Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s.
Latvian carrier airBaltic is planning to open its first aircraft bases outside of the Baltics after 2020 and is nearing a decision on its Airbus A220 options.
Southern African carrier Air Botswana has taken delivery of its first ATR 72-600, the first of two new turboprops the airline ordered in July, just before the Farnborough Airshow.
Austria’s Frequentis will provide a remote virtual tower system at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport (EZE), as the airport carries out an expansion.
Bombardier’s agreement to sell the Dash 8, Q400 and the de Havilland name to Western Canada’s Longview Aviation Capital, parent company of Viking Air, ends a venture into regional turboprops that began in 1992 when it acquired de Havilland Canada from Boeing.
UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) are teaming up to support each other’s aftermarket businesses for certain Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-JM components, agreeing to a “life-of-program” component-service agreement for parts supplied by UTAS, the companies said Nov. 8.
The strategic partnership signed by Air France Industries-KLM Engineering & Maintenance (AFI KLM E&M) and GMF AeroAsia in October could see more widebody airframe maintenance capability shifting toward Indonesia.
Describing it as “non-core,” Bombardier announced Nov. 8 it will sell the Q400 regional turboprop program to Longview Aviation Capital, parent company of Canada’s Viking Air, which previously acquired the rights to out-of-production de Havilland Canada types and the Canadair CL-215/415 waterbomber from Bombardier.
In spite of recent speculation to the contrary, Arab airline executives dismissed the notion that consolidation of the air transport sector is anywhere close.
Wizz Air is cutting its full-year profit forecast because of disruption during the summer season and higher fuel prices, though the Budapest, Hungary-based LCC reported a first-half 2018 rise in passenger numbers and revenue.
China will need more than 7,400 new passenger and freight aircraft over the next two decades, a total market value of $1.06 trillion, according to the latest Airbus China Market Forecast.
The latest in a long series of calls for improved air traffic management (ATM) in Europe has come from Airlines For Europe (A4E), an airline association made up of 15 members accounting for 70% of the continent’s journeys.
