A foreign carrier could operate the only cabotage route in the U.S. for the next 12 months if the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) extends Polynesian Airlines’ exemption.
Although Garuda Indonesia is set to enlarge its fleet with new deliveries this year, it still has not decided between the Airbus A350 or Boeing 787 to fill its long-term replacement needs. The airline is continuing to assess the two aircraft types, in a process that began last year. It is “still finalizing its widebody refleeting plans by studying the A350-900 and 787-9 fuel efficiency and operating costs before making a final decision,” a Garuda spokesman told Aviation Daily.
HNA Group carrier Tianjin Airlines, moving into long-haul operations this year, proposes to begin three low-frequency services to London and Moscow in June.
Spirit Airlines is evaluating whether it should reduce capacity in network airline hubs and add more flying from more smaller and medium-sized cities, new CEO Robert Fornaro said on Feb. 9.
As recently as eight years ago, only one airline flew between Los Angeles and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or Qatar—but this summer, three carriers will fly four daily flights, and a senior Emirates executive told Aviation Daily there is plenty of demand to fill most seats in economy and business class.
Although the references are oblique, the Obama Administration appears to be open to an FAA restructuring in its just-released fiscal year 2017 budget, which calls for $15.9 billion to operate the agency, up slightly from the $15.8 billion appropriated by Congress for fiscal year 2016.
NASA is seeking a significant increase in money for aeronautics research to fund a series of large-scale subsonic and supersonic civil-aircraft X-plane demonstrators to prove the benefits of technologies developed with industry.
Orders for the Comac C919 from China’s three big state airlines are unlikely to appear until the state manufacturer is able to confirm the performance of the 158-seat airliner.
British Airways (BA) will be flying from London Stansted Airport (STN) this summer to four leisure destinations, a move which will bring it in direct competition with Ryanair or possibly is a precursor to a new cooperation with Europe’s largest LCC.
A 2020 fleet target suggests China Eastern will need approximately 100 more aircraft to support expansion, plus an unknown quantity for replacements, and more again if it reduces the number of aircraft it has on lease. It is close to ordering Airbus A350s.
The market has yet to determine which updated narrowbody—the Boeing 737MAX or the Airbus A320neo—will dominate, but some analysts have begun to say that the industry could face a glut of narrowbodies and the huge orderbooks may not come to fruition.
ASL Aviation Group will expand its business with a further two airlines and increase its fleet from 100 to more than 130 aircraft, following a deal to acquire the airline operations of TNT Express (TNT).
The first binding energy efficiency and carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions targets for aviation have been agreed at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and in all but a few cases, aircraft in production or development will meet the initial standard without modification.
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) had high hopes that lawmakers would strike a key sentence from the latest round of FAA reauthorization proposals.
From rapid surveys of wreckage in remote locations to high-fidelity forensic reconstruction, drones are quickly becoming an essential tool for accident investigators who can use them.
Researchers find significant fuel savings in “minimal” turbo-electric concept, thanks to benefits of a boundary-layer ingesting,electrically driven propulsor and resulting weight savings from downsizing conventional turbofan engines.
Researchers led by Airbus regard distributed hybrid-electric propulsion as one promising option for a post-2035 commercial aircraft. Europe may fly a scaled demonstrator of this, or an alternative configuration, in 2022.
