Aviation Daily

By Sean Broderick
Delta Air Lines will debut its Airbus A220-100s on flights to Boston Logan International (BOS) and Dallas/Fort Worth International (DFW) out of its New York LaGuardia (LGA) hub starting Jan. 31 and steadily roll the newest narrowbodies out on other U.S. domestic large-hub-to-large-hub routes throughout the summer.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Fort Worth, Texas-based Bell Helicopter will collaborate with Japanese package-delivery company Yamato on aerial logistics using electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned aircraft, the two companies said Oct. 12.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
Six years after its creation, Spanish LCC Volotea has carried its 20 millionth passenger, the carrier said Oct. 11.
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has relaunched the nonstop Singapore (SIN)-New York Newark service, the world’s longest commercial flight, with its Airbus A350-900 ultra-long-range (ULR) aircraft.
Air Transport

AirBaltic CEO Martin Gauss said—as the launch operator of the Airbus A220-300 (formerly the Bombardier CS300)—technical issues with the aircraft are mainly overcome.
Air Transport

Lufthansa Group is making another shift to its regional airline portfolio with plans to transfer Airbus A319s from Lufthansa mainline to Lufthansa’s CityLine regional carrier, starting in 2019.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise’s (DAE) leasing arm DAE Capital completed eight leasing transactions in 3Q 2018 and closed an $800 million revolving loan facility during the quarter, the parent company said in a review of the period released Oct. 11.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Italian unions have welcomed progress on the future of Alitalia and called for attention to be focused on developing the carrier’s long-haul network, particularly flights to the U.S.
Air Transport

TUI Group confirmed that is in talks with German airline investment group Intro Aviation to sell its French leisure airline Corsair International.
Air Transport

By Molly McMillin
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor, has acquired Wichita-baseed Aerostructures Acquisition, doing business as The Atlas Group, a manufacturer of complex assemblies for business, commercial and military aircraft.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European pilots called on Irish LCC Ryanair to reverse its decision to close bases in Eindhoven, Netherlands and Bremen, Germany in order to ensure progress in talks with unions.
Air Transport

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By Sean Broderick
Canadian ultra-LCC Jetlines said delivery of its first two aircraft is on schedule for “early” second quarter 2019 following its second set of advance lease payments to lessor AerCap.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Delta Air Lines' push to control costs and generate revenues through its growing inventory of premium products is helping the carrier offset rising fuel expenses, and executives believe the airline is on track to mitigate all of 2019's expected fuel-cost increase.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus has completed the second of three flight-test campaigns in the Blade demonstration program, aimed at evaluating the feasibility of natural laminar flow on a commercial aircraft.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
International Airlines Group (IAG) said British Airways’ director of network, fleet and alliances Sean Doyle will replace outgoing Aer Lingus chief executive Stephen Kavanagh.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
AirAsia India has named a senior executive from part-owner Tata group as the new CEO of the LCC joint venture.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
CEFA Aviation, a France-based company specializing in flight replay via animation, is offering pilots the ability to virtually relive their flight immediately after landing, instead of waiting for conventional, lengthy flight data analysis processes.
Air Transport

By Polina Montag-Girmes
The runway at Yakutsk airport was iced over when a Yakutia Airline Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) skidded off Oct. 9, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said in an Oct. 10 statement.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a competition investigation into the Atlantic Joint Business Agreement, a transatlantic partnership between American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia and Finnair.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. Justice Department arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio, agency officials said Oct. 10.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
JetBlue's newly announced additions to its Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) schedules represent the next steps in its strategy of increasing margins by fortifying already-strong networks in its three focus cities.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
WestJet will base its initial Boeing 787s at its Calgary, Alberta, hub and launch nonstop services next year to three European cities in its network, bringing two new routes to Calgary International Airport (YYC) in the process, the airline confirmed Oct. 10.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Twenty aviation companies have presented a seven-step “Smart and Sustainable” plan to the Dutch infrastructure minister with the goal of cutting at least 35% of Netherlands-originated civil-aviation CO2 emissions by 2030.
Air Transport

Finnair will wet-lease an Airbus A330 from Air Italy to operate its Helsinki-Chicago O´Hare and Helsinki-Miami routes between Oct. 12 and 31.
Air Transport