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Even though Latam and GOL are cutting back capacity to stop their decline, recovery is still a long way off.

Even in the face of a shaky Brazilian economy, the regional carrier will continue its domestic expansion, and is even looking at more international flights.

Azul is transforming its model, but now has to deal with a collapsed economy and planned deep cooperation with TAP Portugal.

Regional carrier says it will pursue “non-consensual restructuring” if pilots fail to ratify new labor agreement.

Concerns about the improper use of UAVs has prompted the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority to create a so-called “Drone code,” advising users to operate their devices within line of sight.

With the current strategy, it could take 20 years to find wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines 777-200ER.

We round up five of our most read stories in August, and your reaction to them.

All of the Australian carrier’s business units are now profitable, and how it did that can help guide other big carriers.

Minor problems cascade to make life difficult for a Jet2 crew on an early evening approach to East Midlands.

Instead of investing in faster aircraft, what about investing in something that would truly make a difference for the majority of passengers?

Ultrasound camera developed by DolphiTech proving its value for detecting defects in composites.

Join our editors as they discuss the aftermath of the air show accident at Shoreham in the U.K. last week. Should there be tighter controls or is it time to end aerobatic displays by vintage military aircraft at air shows? Could it be the end for air shows as we know them?

Has Lockheed Martin found the right mix of advanced design and conventional thinking with its Hybrid Wing Body airlifter concept? Wind-tunnel tests confirm its efficiency promise and a demonstrator is on the cards.

Market factors show the twin-aisles are very healthy now and will prevail as the aircraft of choice for most airlines going forward.

Boeing is starting the detailed design of its future long-haul twinjet 777X-family aircraft after completing the firm configuration.

Pilots skilled in airline upset-recovery training are taking part in a year-long series of international educational workshops designed by ICAO to help reduce loss-of-control inflight accidents, the leading cause of airline fatalities.

Aviation Week flies with Tom Schnell, director of the University of Iowa's Operator Performance Lab, in Schnell's Mi-2 Hoplite avionics testbed to sample the Lab's degraded visual environment research

Australian carrier confirms aircraft purchases after reporting dramatic earnings turnaround.

New connectivity software could help with everything from pilot flight planning to flight crew inventory control.

Each parent carrier has committed to investing another ¥5 billion ($42 million) into Jetstar Japan.

The airline is now offering the Mint cabin on the historically competitive transcontinental routes between New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport and Los Angeles as well as San Francisco, but plans to expand the service to Boston in 2016.

Relations between Republic and IBT leaders are rocky—the union even filed a federal lawsuit last month against the company, accusing it of overpaying pilots in an attempt to undercut its bargaining position—and it’s not clear whether labor leaders want pilots to vote on the proposal.

The Delta Master Executive Council (MEC) of ALPA endorsed the tentative labor deal in June and sent it to the airline’s nearly 13,000 pilots for a ratification vote.

Details of the new agreement will not be released until the FedEx ALPA Master Executive Council (MEC) has reviewed and approved the new contract, the union and FedEx said.

What if commercial pilots never had to learn to fly IFR? The distinction between instrument flight rules and visual flight rules (VFR) may go away in the not-too-distant future. What if the Black Hawk successor offered military pilots a 360-degree, all-weather view on a touch screen that could easily be reconfigured? These are the sort of things we might see in next-gen cockpits. Join Aviation Week editors Jim Asker, John Croft and Graham Warwick in peering into the future.