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By Adrian Schofield
Indian LCC SpiceJet will continue a year of rapid growth by adding 46 more domestic non-stop flights, while also reportedly considering another major aircraft order.
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By Helen Massy-Beresford
French airline Aigle Azur will be liquidated as of midnight Sept. 27 after a French commercial court rejected the remaining rescue offers under consideration for the already-grounded airline.
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By Bradley Perrett
After further delays, the Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC) began assembling the first airframe in the MA700 turboprop airliner program Sept. 27, aiming for a first flight in 2020 and certification in 2022.
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By Helen Massy-Beresford
Air France-KLM will not step in to rescue long-haul LCC XL Airways, which faces liquidation as the deadline approaches for bids for the insolvent airline.
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By Sean Broderick
Boeing president and CEO Dennis Muilenburg and two other company representatives, including the 737 chief pilot, will testify before a U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the 737 MAX scheduled for Oct. 30, the committee said Sept. 27.
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By Michael Bruno
Honeywell International said Sept. 26 that its new big-data Forge software for airlines “may” help customers Nippon Cargo Airlines and Kuwait Airways cut their fuel costs by up to 3%.
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By Graham Warwick
Denmark’s Nordic Seaplanes is to cooperate with Norway’s Equator Aircraft to develop a hybrid-electric seaplane for commercial services.
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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today launched the 25by2025Campaign—an airline industry initiative to advance gender diversity in the airline industry by 2025.
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Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) First VP Bob Fox told U.S. lawmakers that the world’s largest pilot union is “deeply dismayed” over the FAA’s lack of follow-through on a directive that would mandate the installation of secondary cockpit barriers.
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By Jens Flottau
Delta Air Lines is massively expanding its presence on routes between North and Latin America as a result of its agreement to buy a 20% stake in Latam Airlines Group.
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By Helen Massy-Beresford, Jens Flottau
After Aigle Azur and the collapse of Thomas Cook—Europe’s major airline casualties are mounting.
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By Sean Broderick
New board-level safety committee has been established, with the changes designed to elevate internal safety concerns, address varying regulatory environments.
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By Michael Bruno, Jens Flottau
The moral of the story of the airliner subsidy dispute at the WTO is: Be careful about starting fights. Now Boeing looks set to learn it the hard way.
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FAA expects to reach a decision on minimum dimensions for seat length, width and pitch by the end of 2019, following live evacuation drills in November, deputy administrator Dan Elwell said.
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By Guy Norris
As the aviation industry comes increasingly under scrutiny from climate change activists, engine maker Rolls-Royce says new approaches may be needed to help meet sustainability goals.
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By Sean Broderick
Fundamental aircraft-design assumptions about how pilots respond during system failures and react to flight-deck hazard indicators are inadequate and must be re-evaluated, the U.S. NTSB has concluded.
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State-owned Croatia Airlines will receive a government cash injection, while another southeast European carrier, Adria Airways, is scrambling to find investors and resume full operations.
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By Alan Dron
Etihad Airways will delay delivery of five Airbus A350-1000s until an unspecified future date, a move adhering to the Abu-Dhabi-based company’s business transformation plan.
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By Jens Flottau
Private equity investor Indigo Partners is in talks to take over German leisure carrier Condor, according to industry sources.
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By Victoria Moores
International Airlines Group (IAG) is expecting its full-year operating profit to be down on 2018, after taking a €170 million ($186.6 million) hit from industrial unrest among its pilots and Heathrow Airport workers.
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By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has assembled a first fuselage for the Ilyushin Il-96-400M, a stretched variant of Il-96 widebody passenger aircraft.
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By Graham Warwick
Voom is offering flights between five Bay Area airports in Oakland, Palo Alto, San Francisco, San Jose and Napa, California.
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By Michael Bruno, Jen DiMascio, Jens Flottau
As the World Trade Organization’s ruling on the lingering dispute between Boeing and Airbus nears, retaliatory tariffs appear difficult to avoid – and at an inopportune time for an industry already showing signs of a slowdown.
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EgyptAir and Lufthansa will extend their codeshare operation offering further connections to both airlines’ customers in Europe and Egypt.
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FAA deputy administrator Dan Elwell told U.S. House appropriators that all safety inspectors who sat on the flight standardization board (FSB) for the Boeing 737 MAX were fully qualified, contradicting recent findings from the Office of Special Counsel (OSC).
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