Narrowbody aircraft capable of long-haul flying will open substantial new market opportunities to low cost airlines, industry executives said at the CAPA Low-Cost Long-Haul Global Summit here.
American Airlines plans an overhaul of its executive team overseeing operations and customer service, following a tumultuous summer marked by a spike in delays and cancellations.
Airlines have inspected 810 older Boeing 737NGs for cracked fuselage parts and turned up issues on 38 aircraft as of Oct. 9, the company said, adding it is working with customers to develop plans and procure parts for aircraft with discrepancies.
Porsche has become the latest carmaker to embrace urban air mobility (UAM), signing an MOU with Boeing to study product development for the premium market for personal air vehicles.
Shares in Delta Air Lines stumbled Oct. 10 as investors brushed aside record third-quarter (Q3) revenue to focus instead on higher expectations for Q4 non-fuel unit costs.
Sustainable energy company Velocys says it will be able to produce “negative-emissions” fuels, after striking a deal to capture and store the carbon dioxide that will be generated by the biomass-to-fuel plant it is planning to build in Mississippi.
European regional carriers are expecting a difficult operating environment to continue, with macroeconomic and political uncertainty as well as hefty fuel bills all causing headaches for smaller carriers in a region that has seen four airline collapses in the past month.
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. says it expects to sign up new customers for its SpaceJet aircraft family by year-end, as it pushes ahead with type-certification testing.
Impediments to the success of African carriers and the economies they support will be the focus of discussion at the Airlines Association of Southern Africa’s (AASA) forthcoming 49th Annual General Assembly.
The illegal trade in wild animals and animal products amounts to around $23 billion a year, much of it operating around the air transport sector. Now, however, the fightback has started, as Anuradha Deenapanray reports.
Planned tariffs on aircraft imports to the U.S. from Europe would apply to about 15% of the Airbus backlog, Aviation Week Fleet Data Services show, though many questions—from how lessors are affected to what happens with U.S.-assembled A320s, remain unanswered.
American Airlines narrowed its Q3 revenue guidance and said the absence of Boeing 737 MAXs from its operation shaved $140 million off its Q3 pretax income as well as resulting in 9,475 flight cancellations.
ATR is targeting customers operating out of space-constrained airports with the formal launch of a STOL (short-takeoff-and-landing) version of the ATR 42-600, for which it has 20 commitments.
