Air Transport

Philippine Airlines (PAL) has announced it has developed a new business plan to help restore financial health and has reported more senior leadership changes.

Avic is planning to develop a series of four successively larger pilotless cargo aircraft, an official of the state company said at a conference.

Qatar's relations with the US were boosted by a signing spree during a visit by the ruler of the Gulf country to President Donald Trump at the White House.

Avic is planning a highly data-driven final assembly process for turboprop airliner. A new factory will be built for it.

The aerospace heavyweight is designing avionics for UAM vehicles and entering relationships with vehicle developers.

Hybrid-electric demo plans remain on track but will be paralleled by fast-growing electric propulsion initiative.

Electrifying the Islander; German electric regional; acquisition boosts Rolls electric; Wing expands deliveries; UPS drones approved; Hyundai enters UAM.

A French commercial court ruled Oct. 4 that insolvent XL Airways should be liquidated.

The U.S. TSA is not consistently involving airlines when it reviews security directives at foreign airports, and its process for checking them is not transparent, says a report from the U.S. GAO.

Efforts to return some 150,000 customers of failed leisure operator Thomas Cook Airlines are scheduled to conclude this weekend.

Kittyhawk has revealed it is developing a third electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle under Project Heaviside.

Spain-based LCC Volotea, which specializes in linking secondary and tertiary European cities, is to open a new base at Naples in 2020.

Boeing has moved into forward-flight testing of its unmanned Cargo Air Vehicle (CAV) and completed more than 90 flights since beginning outdoor testing in early May.

The U.S. Transportation Department Inspector General’s Office (IG) will audit the FAA’s long-running NextGen air traffic control (ATC) modernization effort to determine if it is delivering on expectations.

Insolvent Slovenian carrier Adria Airways has left Star Alliance, becoming the second member airline in a month to leave the alliance because of bankruptcy.

New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced subsidies will be granted to general aviation (GA) operators to equip their aircraft with automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ahead of the country’s deadline for installation.

Oman Air and Kenya Airways have expanded their codeshare cooperation, increasing destinations covered by the agreement.

Thai long-haul LCC NokScoot has expanded its fleet to seven aircraft, commissioning two more Boeing 777-200s on Oct. 3.

After close to a week of dispute, Garuda Indonesia and Sriwijaya Air have agreed to put their differences aside, with intervention from the government’s Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises.

Five people were reported killed and three injured when a Ukraine Air Alliance Antonov An-12 freighter crashed Oct. 4. in Sokilnyky, a village near Lviv.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) on Oct. 3 tentatively approved an agreement for Hawaiian Airlines and Japan Airlines (JAL) to operate a joint venture (JV) between Hawaii and Japan, although it declined to grant the pair anti-trust immunity (ATI).

Emirates has completed the installation of bespoke Expo 2020 Dubai liveries on 40 aircraft, with its final A380 aircraft emblazoned in the distinctive orange ‘opportunity’ decal rolling out of the Emirates Engineering hangar.

Flynas has recently accomplished the IOSA Program registration, which is an internationally accepted evaluation process of an airline’s operational management and control systems.

Flight Safety Foundation and the AviAssist Foundation have renewed their long-standing relationship with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) that will see the two organisations work more closely to promote aviation safety in Africa.

With more than 100 passenger-carrying autonomous test flights under its belt, China’s Ehang is ready to begin flights in cities.