Air France KLM chief executives say it is too early to see what effects the new strategic cooperation between Delta Air Lines and LATAM will have on the SkyTeam alliance and its member-partners.
Biofuel supplier SkyNRG has introduced a program that is geared to enabling corporations to reduce emissions from their business air travel by contributing to development of a production facility for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be built in the Netherlands.
British budget carrier easyJet said it expects its full-year profit to be at the top end of its previous estimates, helped partly by increased demand due to strikes at British Airways and Ryanair.
The FAA said the last two of 155 U.S. airports in a plan now receive and display aircraft targets by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), completing the agency’s final implementation goal for the program.
With backing from KLM, a scale flying model of an unconventional fuel-efficient long-haul airliner concept made its debut at the airline’s 100th anniversary celebrations.
Seaplane operator Harbour Air has installed a 540-kw (750-hp) electric motor in a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, with first flight expected by the end of November.
The rise of populism and nationalist foreign policies and the Boeing 737 MAX recertification are threats to what has been a stable cooperative environment.
LCC Volotea has been awarded a five-year contract by Airbus to operate twice-daily return flights between the airframer’s main production sites in Toulouse and Hamburg.
Colombia’s Avianca Holdings has reached an agreement with United Airlines Holdings and Kingsland Holdings S.A. that would see the struggling Latin American carrier receive financing of up to $250 million while it executes a debt-reprofiling plan.
Dubai-based LCC flydubai has completed the first installation of Split Scimitar Winglets on its fleet of Boeing 737-800s, becoming the first airline in the Middle East to invest in this fuel-saving technology developed by Aviation Partners Boeing.
Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air plans to expand its Romanian operations and will base one additional Airbus A320 in Iasi, bringing its fleet there to three.
Peruvian Airlines has suspended operations “until further notice,” after its bank accounts were frozen by customs authorities over tax irregularities, the company announced.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) announced Oct. 7 that its MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft next year will fly above San Diego to survey infrastructure, during flight tests the company is organizing with NASA.
