Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Emirates and Air Arabia have ordered more Airbus and Boeing airliners; Etihad is reducing its Boeing 787 buy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Steve Trimble
Certification could come in 2019, but service return will not be until well into next year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Washington) will be among the chief authors of any new legislation to reform FAA’s aircraft certification process resulting from the various investigations into the Boeing 737 MAX.
Air Transport

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Company (SCAC) is looking to the finalization of a new contract with the country’s largest carrier Aeroflot to help reach its aircraft delivery goal for 2019.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Star Alliance carrier TAP Air Portugal has detailed plans to serve a series of new routes from Portugal to Brazil, Canada and North America in 2020, operated by its new Airbus A321LRs.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Strong demand from airlines and investors has increased Dublin-based lessor SMBC Aviation Capital’s interim pre-tax profit to $200 million, marking 19% growth on the $168 million interim figure that it posted in 2018.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has alerted the White House and Congress of “hazardous conditions” at an air traffic control (ATC) facility in Florida brought to light more than a year ago by a whistleblower.
Air Transport

A bill that would impose strict oversight requirements at foreign repair stations was approved by the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, despite strong opposition from Republicans and a host of key aviation stakeholders.
Air Transport

Air Wisconsin pilots have approved a new three-year contract, ending a decade-long dispute with management that the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) called “one of the longest-running conflicts” in the union’s history.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
German leisure carrier TUI fly decided Nov. 21 it will introduce long-haul routes, a move that could significantly change the country’s leisure airline market.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Aircalin, a carrier based in Noumea, the capital of South Pacific French territory New Caledonia, has stopped operating one of its two Airbus A330neos after repeated odor issues in the cabin.
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
Looking to further tap into China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) growth, Guangzhou Baiyun Airport and Shenzhen Bao’an Airport have announced ambitious expansion plans to increase each airport’s handling capacity and enhance their international standings.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
The UK government will provide 50% of the cost of a 30-month, £18 million ($23.3 million) demonstrator project to convert the nine-passenger Britten-Normal Islander to hybrid-electric propulsion for short-range flights such as inter-island routes.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Italian infrastructure group Atlantia said conditions for it to join the planned rescue of Alitalia have not yet been met, adding further doubt to plans for the bankrupt carrier’s future as the latest deadline for the presentation of a formal business plan approaches.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Lufthansa Technik (LHT) and Honeywell are integrating analytics from the supplier’s components into the aftermarket specialist’s independent digital health management platform, giving LHT’s offering even more heft as a single-source aircraft predictive maintenance system.
Air Transport

Canada’s second largest airline WestJet is not yet ready to announce flights to Asia after concluding excess capacity remains an overhang in the market.
Air Transport

Skyworld Aviation has announced the sale of two FAA registered ERJ 145 LR aircraft to Air Peace of Nigeria.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
A durability fix package clears GE9X production restart and paves the way for resumption of Boeing 777-9 flight tests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Elaine L. Chao
U.S. Transportation chief Elaine Chao pledges support for the drone community and says safety is a shared responsibility.
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
As the air transport industry increases its focus on sustainability, Boeing is stepping up its ecoDemonstrator technology testbed program, the latest phase of which is getting underway with flight tests of a specially modified 777-200ER.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick, Steve Trimble
The FAA is leaving the door open for mandatory simulator sessions as a condition for pilots to return to flying The Boeing 737 MAX, the agency’s top official acknowledged.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Aircraft tracking system provider Blue Sky Network on Nov. 20 announced FAA certification of its autonomous distress tracking (ADT) device on Boeing 737 airliners.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
The Dutch Caribbean Air Navigation Service Provider (DC-ANSP), responsible for managing air traffic from the Caribbean island of Curaçao, has started using space-based surveillance data from Aireon to track aircraft.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Tarmac Aerosave, a company specializing in aircraft maintenance, storage and dismantling, has completed the first-ever disassembly of an Airbus A380.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle has appointed Jacob Schram as its new CEO, filling the gap left when co-founder and long-standing CEO Bjorn Kjos left the low-cost airline in July.
Air Transport