Japanese LCC Peach has established an aircraft and crew base at Tokyo Narita Airport, as the carrier reorganizes its operations after merging with Vanilla Air.
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer, while occupied with shopping its 146-seat E195-E2 jet, is indicating it will consider reentering the turboprop market to meet demand in Latin America.
Italian manufacturer Tecnam has announced new orders for its 11-seat P2012 Traveller, the first of which have been delivered to U.S. launch customer Cape Air and are expected to enter service in December.
The South African Competition Commission has approved the commercial partnership between Air Mauritius and South African Airways (SAA) for the Mauritius-Johannesburg route.
The final report on last year’s Lion Air Flight 610 (JT610) 737 MAX 8 accident concluded that inherent flaws in the aircraft’s flight control system set the stage for the crash and provides new details on both flight-crew and maintenance errors that played roles in the accident.
Canadian seaplane airline Harbour Air, working with motor developer MagniX, has completed installation of the electric motor in a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver under its ePlane project to electrify the aircraft.
Mexican ULCC Volaris posted a MXP713 million ($38 million) net profit in the 2019 third-quarter, a strong turnaround from the MXP119 million net loss realized in Q3 2018.
Alaska Air Group’s revenue and cost-cutting initiatives continued to reap gains in the 2019 third-quarter (Q3), as the Seattle-based company’s net income advanced 48% to $322 million from a year earlier.
Lateral separations between aircraft flying in North Atlantic Ocean airspace have been reduced through the use of space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) for near real-time aircraft monitoring, UK NATS announced Oct. 25.
Turboprop airframer ATR has delivered the first aircraft equipped with the ClearVision enhanced vision system (EVS), thus introducing a new system for improved situational awareness in commercial aviation.
Las Vegas-based budget carrier Allegiant Air nearly tripled its profit in the 2019 third-quarter (Q3), helped by a successful transition to a new Airbus-based fleet from aged MD-80s.
The cabin electronics branch of Thales and telecommunications operator SES have demonstrated the use of a hybrid geostationary and medium Earth orbit (GEO/MEO) satellite network for improved inflight connectivity.
