Air France has presented to unions a restructuring plan for its regional subsidiary HOP!, under which it would simplify its fleet to three aircraft types, switch HOP! flights to Air France codes, cut 120 jobs and merge support functions into one location.
Congress has passed a bill to reauthorize the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) through 2021, marking the first such action in the agency’s 17-year-history.
Air Transport Services Group's (ATSG) purchase of Omni Air International is intended to diversify the growing cargo aircraft-leasing specialist's revenue stream while adding passenger aircraft that could help satisfy future freighter-conversion needs.
Cobham Aerospace Communications and Inmarsat have signed a contract to certify Cobham’s Aviator 300D SwiftBroadband satellite communications terminal on Boeing 737NG series airliners.
The U.S. Senate on Oct. 3 passed the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 by a 93-6 vote, clearing the way for the bill to be signed into law by President Donald Trump.
American Airlines, continuing its Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) ramp-up and bolstering its Americas network, plans to add new services to Mexico and Cuba, increase frequencies to several other destinations and bolster regional flying from DFW as part of its summer 2019 schedule.
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has flown a Boeing 747 from Orlando, Florida, to London Gatwick Airport on a blend of waste-gas biofuel produced by New Zealand-based LanzaTech, using an alcohol-to-jet process.
The Civil Aviation Group (CAG), a consortium comprising Romania-based LCC Blue Air and a group of investors from Moldova, plans to take over loss-making flag-carrier Air Moldova.
The Manchester Airports Group (MAG), said it would partner with China’s giant Beijing Construction Engineering Group (BCEG) to bid for the concession to operate Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport, now that the country’s government has opened the tender process.
JetBlue Airways does not expect to see tangible bottom-line results from its newly announced version of no-frills fares until late 2019, a top executive acknowledged.
Paris-based all-business class airline La Compagnie said it will introduce the first of its two incoming Airbus A321neos in April, configured with 76 lie-flat seats in a two-by-two layout.
Travelers want airlines to deliver more real-time information to their personal devices, including updates on flight status (82%), baggage location (49%) and wait-times at security and immigration checkpoints (46%), according to survey data from IATA's latest Global Passenger Survey (GPS), released Oct. 2.
Hexcel opened a carbon-fiber factory Oct. 2 that is expected to secure the supply of composite materials for two major aviation programs in Europe, the Airbus A350 and the CFM Leap engine.
Airbus’s A321neo has won joint approval for long-range operations from the EASA and FAA, the manufacturer said on Oct. 2, paving the way for flexible long-range flying options for its launch customers.
Forty-eight additional airports have joined the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, taking the total engaged in climate action and carbon management to 246 worldwide, lobby group Airports Council International (ACI) told the Global Sustainable Aviation Summit in Geneva on Oct 2.
On the day the companies had long expected to be their first as one corporation, the U.S. Justice Department—in cooperation with European and Canadian competition authorities—instead filed a lawsuit and outlined spinoff demands before the United Technologies Corp. (UTC) would be allowed to acquire Rockwell Collins.
Global airline passenger growth remained strong in August, with traffic rising 6.5% year-over-year (YOY), slightly higher than the 6.1% increase recorded in July.
Indonesian regional carrier TransNusa Airlines has completed the phaseout of Fokker aircraft from its operational fleet, and is preparing to receive more ATR turboprops.
EasyJet said it had signed up Virgin Atlantic as the latest airline partner in its connecting service Worldwide by easyJet, under which passengers will be able to connect from easyJet to Virgin Atlantic long-haul flights through London’s Gatwick Airport.
BOC Aviation has announced that Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) has leased three Airbus A320ceos to be operated by its LCC subsidiary, flyadeal. All three aircraft are scheduled to be delivered by year-end.
