Aviation Week toured American Airlines' maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Dec. 2 to see how the airline was modifying and preparing its Boeing…

A listing of airworthiness directive and bulletins from around the world.

American Airlines COO David Seymour talked to Lee Ann Shay onboard a non-commercial Boeing 737 MAX flight from Tulsa to Dallas Ft. Worth on Dec. 2, in advance of the aircraft’s return to revenue service on Dec. 29.

New cleaning procedures, unplanned downtime introduce safety issues, regulators warn.

The new administration will likely bring changes in U.S. aviation policy, mostly still to be determined.

TULSA, Oklahoma--American Airlines is poised to restart Boeing 737 MAX revenue service on Dec. 29—less than six weeks after the FAA cleared the model…

The FAA, stepping up a pair of earlier advisories, will require Boeing 787 pilots to monitor flight path data during localizer-based approaches to ensure aircraft remain on the proper heading—while Boeing works to fix a problem with autopilot flight director system (AFDS) software causing aircraft to deviate instead of following the prescribed approach course. 

The Independent Aircraft Modifier Alliance has identified ‘orphan’ STCs, cross authority validations and more as challenges it plans to tackle in 2021.