The Board of Directors of flynas have approved raising the volume of its orders to 250 aircraft – making the airline the largest LCC in the MENA region.
Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is too generous to airlines and free carbon allowances to the aviation industry should be curbed, Brussels-based campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) said in an April 6 report.
Boeing should not get relief if it cannot certify its 737-7 or 737-10 before the congressionally mandated Dec. 27 deadline that prohibits the FAA from approving new designs that—like the 737 MAX family—do not comply with several regulations, a top U.S. lawmaker said.
In a major step forward in its digitalization, including overhauling how it designs and builds new aircraft, Boeing announced a series of deals with the highest-profile cloud-computing providers.
What happens next depends on a combination of Frontier’s reaction—whether it makes a counteroffer—and how the Spirit board of directors judges the tradeoffs between a relatively safer merger with Frontier, and the prospect of a perhaps more ambitious future with JetBlue.
JetBlue Airways believes its proposed acquisition of, and merger with, Spirit Airlines will allow the combined entity to create a compelling order book during the next few years in an increasingly tight narrowbody market.
Universal Hydrogen plans to flight test its 1-megawatt, hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 regional aircraft starting around September.
Kenya Airways and SAA plan to leverage their respective Nairobi and Johannesburg home hubs, with ambitions of co-starting a pan-African airline group by 2023.
The managing director of Manchester Airport (MAN) has stepped down amid severe operational disruption at the UK airport, including lengthy queues caused by staff shortages and stronger passenger demand.
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic is expecting to significantly narrow its losses in 2022 and return to profitability in 2023, after posting a £594 million ($778.7 million) pre-tax loss for 2021.
In conversation with Aviation Daily, Iceland’s newest start-up airlines Niceair and PLAY detail their latest activities and plans to reach profitability in 2023.
Airlines are expecting travel demand to keep growing despite the effects of higher jet fuel costs feeding through into ticket price increases, IATA said.
An Air France-operated Boeing 777-300ER was involved in a serious incident April 5 when the crew experienced problems with the flight controls on final approach to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG).
Ethiopian Airlines has signed an eight-year sale and leaseback agreement with TrueNoord, the specialist regional aircraft lessor, for two further factory-new Dash 8-400 aircraft.
