Regional carrier Mokulele Airlines has been named the launch partner in Hawaii for Regent’s 12-passenger Viceroy seaglider, an electric wing-in-ground-effect transport for dock-to-dock overwater routes.
Inmarsat has signed up UK LCC easyJet as its first airline partner for the Iris air traffic modernization program it developed with the European Space Agency (ESA) to ease airspace congestion.
JetBlue Airways raised its offer to buy Spirit Airlines to $33.50/share, from $31.50/share previously, adding pressure to Frontier Airlines to sweeten its own bid before a crucial shareholder vote next week.
Safran has made an undisclosed investment in Sintermat, a five-year-old company specializing in an advanced sintering process for higher-performance engine components.
The uncrewed aircraft division of Kenya Airways, Fahari Aviation, has signed a letter of intent with Embraer spinoff Eve for up to 40 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
LATAM Airlines Group may need to consider a widebody refresh in the future, but those decisions will be considered by the company’s new board of directors.
UK LCC easyJet is looking to exercise purchase rights and options on 56 Airbus A320neo-family aircraft and convert orders for 18 A320neos to the larger A321neo, under a proposal valued at $6.5 billion at list prices.
On June 21, an ATR 72-600 operated by Swedish carrier Braathens Regional Airlines (BRA) completed a milestone test flight with both Pratt & Whitney engines 100%-powered with Neste sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Oman Air has increased weekly flight frequencies on its Muscat-Salalah-Muscat sector to a total of 112 weekly flights, running between 23 June and 11 September 2022.
IATA has called for governments to adopt a Long Term Aspirational Goal to decarbonise aviation at the 41st Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) later this year.
Since the first Boeing 777 freighter service took off from Doha to Chicago-O'Hare in the U.S. in August 2010, Qatar Airways Cargo network has expanded across eight countries on the American continents.
IATA Director General Willie Walsh said he is “very positive” about the recovery, with the number of airport pairs connected by direct air service set to return above the 20,000 mark this year.
