Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
With work reduced to documentation, it is not clear how the group is preserving corporate knowledge for a possible restart.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Spirit AeroSystems, freshly infused with former Bombardier aerostructure assets that serve Airbus narrowbodies and the aftermarket, will look to squeeze cost out of its newly inherited and enlarged supply chain, executives said Nov. 3 while releasing third-quarter results.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Pilot groups believe several elements of new Boeing 737 MAX training should be expanded and required more frequently than the FAA proposes so pilots remain familiar with certain non-normal procedures and how a key flight-control function works.
Maintenance & Training

By Lori Ranson
Peru has launched its second phase of reinstating international flights, with several North American destinations now cleared for service.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

DRAKE ASSET MANAGEMENT JERSEY purchased $91m of AEROCENTURY debt from MUFG Lenders and MUFG Bank.
Air Transport

KLM

KLM is still waiting for €3.4b bailout package from Dutch Govt while it waits for certain unions to agree to employment condition contribution
Air Transport

GOVT OF CANADA and GOVT OF NORTHWEST TERRITORIES agreed to contribute C$17.1m and C$3m respectively to ensure continuity of essential air services to
Air Transport

VOLARIS, Mexico agreed to sell two GTF-powered A320neos to Aircastle, and lease them back for 12 years; first was delivered.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
Arab airlines have urged governments to ease border restrictions based on existing air services agreements and global health guidelines in a harmonized and transparent manner.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
American Airlines will expand its current pre-flight COVID-19 testing program in November to include customers headed to a handful of additional Caribbean and Latin American countries, part of an effort to increase options for travelers seeking to avoid onerous quarantines upon arrival.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Transport sector trade unionists have expressed concern at the growth of air traffic control remote tower operations (RTO), urging a global set of regulations governing their use.
Air Traffic

By Kurt Hofmann
Portuguese wet-lease specialist Hi Fly has announced it is phasing out it’s single Airbus A380 at the end of the lease term later this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Stuart Beech is an Airbus A380 senior first officer with British Airways who last flew in early April, before the airline stored its A380s at Chateauroux Airport in central France because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Maintenance & Training

By Kurt Hofmann
Swiss regional carrier Helvetic Airways believes its wet-lease business will increase as airlines come to renew their regional fleets but find themselves short
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
France will require travelers arriving from outside the EU to take rapid-result COVID-19 tests, which will be made available at the country’s airports.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
The way to KLM receiving loans and loan guarantees from the Dutch government totaling €3.4 billion ($4 billion) seemed open late Nov. 3 after the final union in the Dutch airline’s workforce signed up to employment conditions attached to the deal.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bradley Perrett
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) will shift aerospace workers to other divisions for the duration of the downturn in demand for commercial airliners.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The multi-award winning and largest cargo network operator in Africa, Ethiopian Cargo & Logistics Services, has today announced it is ready, with all the required capabilities, for the distribution of potential COVID-19 vaccine across Africa and the rest of the world.
Air Transport

The cargo division of International Airlines Group (IAG) has today announced that it has partnered with IATA’s air cargo rates distribution platform, IATA Net Rates - recently launched for the South Africa market and shortly rolling out globally - to offer an additional platform which customers can use to do business with IAG Cargo.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bradley Perrett
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) wants to move some employees from its suspended SpaceJet program to defense activities, as part of a wider intention to apply skills from the civil aeronautics business to the rest of the group.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Targeting Thailand’s religious and predominately Buddhist population, Thai Airways has announced a pilgrimage flight-to-nowhere event that will see an aircraft fly over 99 sacred sites while passengers say Buddhist prayers onboard.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
China Southern Airlines is the last of the big three state-owned carriers to put its cargo operations into a standalone entity.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
To generate more alternate revenue amid the pandemic and after rising demand for its training speciality, Singapore Airlines (SIA) is commercializing its training services by setting up the Singapore Airlines Academy.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
Ongoing concern over the robustness of the GPS system in the U.S. undergirds development of alternative navigation systems for aviation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

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