Air Transport

American Airlines’ adjusted net income for the 2019 third quarter (Q3) increased 15% year-over-year, despite continued operational challenges related to the ongoing grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX and a labor dispute with its mechanics.
Air Transport

The September collapse of Thomas Cook Group has had knock on effects for the UK’s MRO industry with one of its maintenance providers announcing it is set to close all operations by the end of 2019.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
GE Aviation (GE) has identified a pool of eight GE90-115B engines that need immediate attention based on early findings in the probe of an Oct. 20 Thai Airways uncontained high-pressure turbine failure.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Cyber hardening, environmental sustainability, and development speed and cost are “grand challenges” facing the industry, a new study finds.
Aerospace

By Sean Broderick
Flight hours alone shown to be poor measure of a pilot’s abilities.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno
Boeing remains confident that the Boeing 737 MAX will be cleared to fly in at least some parts of the world by year-end 2019, even as it acknowledges that regulatory reviews of required changes are taking longer than its return-to-service time line assumes.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Surveillance data provider Aireon and the Cocesna air navigation services agency have signed an agreement to deploy space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in six Central American countries.
Air Transport

Numerous delays to the roll-out of FAA’s long-awaited remote ID rulemaking have caused the agency to fall behind EASA in the race to implement a comprehensive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) traffic management system (UTM), the co-founder of U.S.-based UTM platform AirMap said.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Boeing completed the first of what is expected to be several practice dry-runs of the certification test flight of the 737 MAX updated flight control computer software.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Hawaiian Airlines is putting together arguments it hopes will convince U.S. authorities to reverse an earlier ruling and allow the airline to form a joint venture with Japan Airlines (JAL).
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
Bhutanese flag-carrier Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines has taken delivery of its first ATR 42-600 turboprop, equipped with new avionics tailored to handle the challenging Himalayan environment.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Weaker demand and program delays have brewed up a perfect storm for Boeing’s widebody business which continues to see downward pressure on 777 and 787 production rates and a slower than planned ramp up of the 777X.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
UPS Flight Forward, the package carrier’s drone subsidiary, has announced new retail, pharmaceutical and health care partners for its planned delivery service.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Air New Zealand has announced it will launch nonstop flights to New York in October next year, and at the same time will cut its long-running Los Angeles-London service.
Air Transport

The FAA is on target to transition to an international format and a new, streamlined system for distributing notices to airmen (NOTAM) by Summer 2020, according to a senior official from the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO).
Air Transport

JetBlue Airways is tweaking its Latin American and Caribbean network, redeploying capacity from Mexico City to focus on more profitable flying elsewhere in the region, company executives said on their 2019 third-quarter (Q3) earnings call.
Air Transport

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr charter cargo airline, the world’s largest operator of Antonov An-124, will modernize and reduce its fleet of the super heavy freighters to withstand a significant downturn of demand on the air cargo market.
Air Transport

By Antoine Gelain
We must question the norms we have become accustomed to and ultimately refine our individual behavior to spring back to a collectively sustainable state.
Air Transport

By P. Barry Butler
Equal representation is more than a goal: for the vitality and innovation of the industry, it's essential.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris, Adrian Schofield, Jens Flottau
Qantas completes the first trial flight of its proposed “Project Sunrise” ultra-long-haul services, but is yet to decide to officially launch such routes.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey, Helen Massy-Beresford, Adrian Schofield, Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau
While commercial airlines, in general, are facing a pilot shortage worldwide, the situation varies greatly across regions.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
In the most visible personnel move yet during the 737 MAX crisis, Boeing named long-time executive Stan Deal to take over its Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) unit, removing Kevin McAllister and turning the reins of the company’s largest business over to a seasoned leader with significant supply-chain and customer-support experience.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Brazil’s Department of Airspace Control has installed South America’s first “remote tower” at an air base in Rio de Janeiro, using a system based on Frequentis visualization technology.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
The first flight compliant GE9X engine has been delivered by General Electric to Boeing, marking the restart of preparations for the start of 777-9 flight tests.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Air Tahiti Nui (ATN) has completed the transition of its widebody fleet from Airbus A340s to Boeing 787-9s, and the carrier anticipates significant operational benefits from the switch.
Air Transport