Air Transport

Italy reportedly may have to launch a tender at market prices for the sale of assets belonging to nationalized airline Alitalia, in order to get European approval for a relaunch plan for the carrier.

Boeing cautioned the White House against pursuing a COVID-19 testing proposal for domestic air travelers, warning such a policy would produce “severe unintended consequences” that far outweigh any potential public health benefits.

Lessors have been able to increase their share of the in-service aircraft fleet to almost half over the past few decades.

International passengers arriving into England will be required to undergo three self-funded coronavirus tests, in addition to being quarantined.

Star Alliance is in the process of giving up its headquarters at Frankfurt Airport.

British Airways is to invest in a sustainable aviation fuel plant to be built in the U.S. and anticipates receiving 7,500 metric tonnes a year of low-carbon jet fuel from the facility beginning at the end of 2022.

The eventual recovery in international air travel is at risk of being slowed if vaccination rates are allowed to lag behind in some countries, according to the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA).

Two projects have been announced in the Netherlands with the goal of producing carbon-neutral synthetic jet fuel using renewable energy.

Icelandair will be ready to reintroduce its six Boeing 737 MAX once extensive updates and pilot training are completed.

NASA is transitioning long-running hypersonic technology studies increasingly toward potential commercial applications and has awarded two new contracts supporting high speed design and propulsion work to Aerion Supersonic and GE Aviation respectively.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has reached agreements with Airbus and Boeing to defer the delivery of more than 130 aircraft in its order book past the contracted timeframe and some beyond the immediate five years.

To meet rising demand for converted freighters, the Guangzhou Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Company (GAMECO) has announced it will open a third line for the 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) at its Guangzhou, China facility.

Delivering comfort in what was once thought of as a niche segment, crossover narrowbody jets such as the Airbus A220 family and the first and second

Confronted with a dramatic drop in traffic, European ANSPs see a chance to modernize and rethink air traffic management.

Iberia has laid out plans to expand its existing maintenance installations into a major hub for MRO activities in southern Europe. The Spanish flag

UPS is in the home stretch of a five-year project designed to add 20 years of useful life to its Airbus A300-600 freighter fleet, finalizing agreements with two maintenance shops that will install upgraded avionics and other components on 51 aircraft.

Airports aiming to cut carbon emissions are having to set that ambition against the need simply to survive, according to a new report from Airports Council International (ACI).

Mexican ULCC Volaris is scaling back its capacity growth in the 2021 first quarter (Q1) because of new U.S. international testing requirements and growing COVID-19 case counts in Mexico.

An independent report has concluded that neither Ukrainian nor Russian aviation regulators were aware of any potential threats to civil airspace in the lead up to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

Air navigation service providers (ANSP) in Europe are in the middle of a brainstorming process that may reach deep into their organization.

Delta Air Lines will continue blocking off middle seats through at least April 30, extending a popular policy the company hopes will differentiate it as a more premium airline brand.