SkyTeam alliance partners Delta Air Lines and KLM are launching a new codeshare program with Jet Airways, the Indian airline that is 24% owned by Gulf carrier Etihad Airways.
A detailed study of more than 900 unmanned-aircraft sightings reported to the FAA by pilots and air traffic controllers has concluded that 90 involved encounters with commercial aircraft close enough to meet the agency’s definition of a near midair collision.
Honeywell says it will begin offering a traffic-alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS)-coupled autopilot option as part of a Primus Epic avionics-suite upgrade that will be available within the next two years.
Maturing hybrid laminar flow control, active flow control, noise reduction and vibration prediction and mitigation technologies are the focuses of Europe’s AFloNext research program.
The European Commission (EC) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) will continue to “closely” monitor aviation safety in Thailand, but neither the country nor its airlines have been included in the EU’s airline blacklist.
System-performance improvements, in part due to recent space-borne receiver software upgrades, should allow space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) provider Aireon to offer air navigation service providers (ANSPs) with both terrestrial and oceanic ADS-B surveillance capabilities.
Avic is setting up a second airline to operate its unpopular commercial turboprop, this time a specialist cargo carrier using the MA600F, the freighter version of the type.
Qatar Airways says it will not take A320neos with PW1100G operational restrictions; Airbus negotiates with Lufthansa to take delivery of first A320neo.
Even with almost 3,000 orders in the bag before first flight, the Boeing 737 MAX is in catch-up mode with the A320neo, which was launched more than a year ahead of it.
Citing significant improvements in operational performance, United Airlines’ acting CEO said the company is successfully navigating the last few months’ rapid chief executive turnover.
Virgin America is confident it will add roughly five or six Airbus A320-family aircraft per year in 2017, 2018 and 2019, even though the carrier has not finalized how it will source them, CFO Peter Hunt said earlier this month.
Exploitation of crucial flight slots has been a key factor in the decision of SF Express—China’s largest freighter operator—to order Boeing 767-300s converted to freighters, the company says.
Avianca Brasil is going from 15% capacity growth in 2015, to adding no additional capacity next year, as the airline tries to deal with the economic recession in its home market.
