Ryanair’s already rocky relationship with its workforce took another hit after the LCC tweeted a video which showed that a photo had been staged of crewmembers sleeping on the floor in the Malaga Airport in Spain after they were stranded by Storm Leslie.
The International Aviation Group (IAG) launched its third Hangar 51 accelerator program this week by embedding 10 start-ups within British Airways, IAG Cargo and Avios, its reward currency program. “Hangar 51 has a unique approach of bringing the start-ups to the heart of our business and harnessing their potential to transform the future of travel,” says an IAG spokesperson.
Growth in the CFM56 engine leasing market is set to continue for at least another five years before reaching its peak, says Julie Dickerson, managing director of Shannon Engine Support (SES).
Lessors AerCap, GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and IBA are seeing concrete advances in the acceptance of digital aircraft records, which is one of several factors hampering smooth aircraft-lease transitions.
Partly to be a good corporate citizen and partly in response to some local community pressures, JetBlue Airways is adding noise-reducing vortex generators to its existing fleet of 138 Airbus A320-family aircraft.
Executives from Airbus, Boeing and Embraer have told delegates at MRO Europe that they are responding to customer demand by moving more heavily into the aftermarket, but plenty of competition remains.
Munich airport will likely see a significant delay—if not an outright stop—of its plans to build a third runway following regional elections in Bavaria Oct. 14.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) wants to stay within the EASA system after the UK exits the European Union (Brexit) but given that the UK government hasn’t determined how it will exit, CAA is preparing for a Hard Brexit, a scenario where no mutually beneficial deal is reached.
A newly-released Aviation Week Intelligence Network 2019 Commercial Fleet and MRO Forecast shows the commercial air transport fleet, for which growth is underpinned by multiple macro-economic trends, will experience growth of 2.8% on deliveries of nearly 23,200 turbofan- and turboprop-powered aircraft over the coming decade.
Boeing has pushed back an announcement over pursuing the New Midsize Aircraft (NMA) until sometime in 2019, but increasingly, financial analysts are seeing the new aircraft as a fait accompli.
U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts) is a member of the Aviation Subcommittee of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and a leading critic of the U.S. airline industry.
Caribbean carrier Western Air, based in The Bahamas, recently purchased three Embraer ERJ-145s from the manufacturer and has signed a multi-year component support agreement with the OEM, Embraer said Oct. 16.
As part of Delta TechOps’ investment in predictive maintenance technology, Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines signed a multi-year contract with Airbus to use its Skywise open-data platform for its Airbus A320s and A330s—about 400 aircraft, the two companies said Oct. 15.
Norwegian Air Argentina began its domestic operations Oct. 16, the company said, with a Boeing 737-800 flight, DN6022, from Buenos Aires’s Aeroparque Jorge Newbery Airport to Cordoba’s Ingeniero Ambrosio Taravella International Airport manned by local CEO Ole Christian Melhus.
United Airlines rode a double-digit revenue increase and declining non-fuel unit costs to deliver a third-quarter (Q3) net income of $836 million, a 29% year-over-year (YOY) improvement.
Christian Suttner, the co-founder and managing partner of startup incubator Starburst, predicts drone-based aircraft maintenance inspections will go mainstream by 2020.
TAP Express CEO Valter Fernandes used the podium at MRO Europe in Amsterdam Oct. 16 to call for action on long aviation lead times, saying the industry has lost its edge because innovation is too slow and expensive.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has released an eight-year plan to incorporate biometric technology including facial recognition and fingerprints at airports across the country.
London Gatwick airport will unveil plans Oct. 18 for its future development over the next decade, with expectations rife that it will make greater use of its main taxiway as a second runway.
