China will confirm an expected order for 30 Airbus A330s during a visit to the country by German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week, industry sources say.
Royal Jordanian Airlines has lost yet another CEO, its fourth in three and a half years, and has named Suleiman Obeidat as its acting president and chief executive.
Saab is nearing completion of the demonstration phase of an experimental remote-tower system at a reliever airport for Washington Dulles International Airport.
Commuter carrier Great Lakes Airlines is asking the FAA to increase the number of passengers it can legally fly on its Beechcraft 1900D twin-turboprops, in order to make its small community services economically viable.
The move by the world’s and U.S.’s second largest airline in terms of revenue, which will take effect April 26, 2016, is a blow to A4A’s mission of presenting a united front of U.S. carriers as it lobbies Congress and the White House on major industry issues.
Pilots at Republic Airways Holdings ratified a new three-year labor deal on Oct. 27, ending a contentious and sometimes nasty eight-year battle between the company and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT).
Spirit Airlines, continuing to observe a “challenging revenue environment,” likely will ramp down utilization slightly next year in an attempt to improve operational reliability, executives said on Oct. 27.
Garuda Indonesia plans to progress its fleet-modernization program in the fourth quarter, adding new widebodies, narrowbodies and turboprops as older types are retired.
Xiamen Airlines plans to add two Boeing 787-9s—possibly leased—to four that it has on order, while applying for a low-frequency service to New York as an initial intercontinental route for the aircraft.
General Electric will develop Huntsville, Alabama-based production facilities dedicated to making materials for the ceramic matrix composites (CMC) that will feature in the new generation of CFM Leap and GE9X engines.
American Airlines President Scott Kirby: “Anytime we are competing . . . nonstop-to-nonstop, we’re going to compete and match [other carriers'] prices.”
Since Spirit Airlines adopted its ultra-low-cost model eight years ago, legacy carriers have generally avoided price-matching, but now—with all three U.S. discount airlines planning considerable capacity increases next year—the dynamics have changed, as American Airlines executives made clear recently.
Functional tests of the Boeing’s 737 MAX’s systems are increasing in scale and complexity, following the switch on of full power to the aircraft as it moves toward completion on the new central production line in the company’s Renton, Washington, facility.
New visa rules proposed for Chinese citizens traveling to the U.K. are a “step in the right direction,” though more needs to be done to make the visa system more efficient and boost the number of Chinese tourists to the country, International Airlines Group (IAG) CEO Willie Walsh said.
Volaris is boosting its capacity growth estimates for this year as it continues to develop its point-to-point network strategy, and management says its ultra low-cost model is paying off.
Turbofan surprises testers and survives first controlled on-wing test of volcanic ash ingestion, providing data on what happens inside a jet engine flying though an ash cloud.
ViaSat—one of the newest entrants in a U.S. connectivity market long dominated by Gogo—says it wants to grow considerably by taking market share from its largest competitor.
American Airlines, fighting back against growing ultra-low-cost-carrier (ULCC) competition, plans to introduce a broader range of product offerings in 2016 to better compete with the budget-passenger-focused carriers.
Since 2008, the European Commission has been working with aerospace companies to develop technologies for future aircraft under a public-private partnership called Clean Sky. The original phase of the program—which runs until 2017—will be extended until 2024 through a second phase called Clean Sky 2. Combined, these two research programs represent a €5.6 billion ($6.2 billion) investment. Here are some of the technologies in the works.
