Air Canada continues to reveal little about its plans for Air Transat beyond keeping the leisure airline’s brand and Montreal headquarters, but a senior executive said that getting its aircraft flying more often will be a near-term focus.
Thai Airways and Airbus plan to begin construction of a new, expanded MRO facility at Thailand’s U-Tapao airport next year, as part of the airport’s development program.
Egyptair has taken delivery of its first of 12 A220-300 aircraft on order, becoming the first A220 operator based in the Middle East and North African region and the sixth operator worldwide.
The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has this year welcomed four new member airlines namely: Safarilink aviation operating from Kenya; Air Djibouti - the flag carrier of Djibouti, Air Senegal - the flag carrier of Senegal and Uganda National Airlines Company - the flag carrier of Uganda.
Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group, Inc. signed an MOU with Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. (MITAC) Sept. 5 to enter negotiations for the purchase of 100 SpaceJet M100 aircraft.
Rolls-Royce is fast-tracking the removal of certain older Trent 1000 intermediate pressure turbine (IPT) blades and modifying its blade-life calculation methods in the aftermath of a Norwegian Air Boeing 787 engine failure near Rome linked to blades that cracked before established life limits.
The CEO of Kuwaiti LCC Jazeera Airways believes that the low-cost model has huge potential in the Middle East, as many of the region’s airlines are failing to grasp opportunities in the market.
UK long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic is calling for changes to London Heathrow’s slot regime that would allow it to grow from 30 to 160 slots when the third runway is built.
A forgotten maintenance lockout pin that prevented a Jetstar Airbus A320 thrust reverser from operating has led Qantas and Airbus to change maintenance procedures, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) incident report revealed.
Russia and China are reportedly close to selecting a location for the CR929 program’s engineering center, an issue that has been delaying progress in development of the widebody airliner.
Aviation Daily’s Ben Goldstein sat down with IATA director general and CEO Alexandre de Juniac on the sidelines of IATA’s Wings of Change Americas conference in Chicago to discuss when and how governments should regulate airlines.
United Airlines, continuing to tweak its hub schedules in search of higher margins, will flip two banks at Denver International Airport (DEN) to accommodate earlier arrivals from the West Coast and slightly later arrivals from the eastern U.S.
Global demand for air freight dropped 3.2% in July, IATA said, marking the ninth consecutive month of year-on-year (YOY) volume declines as weak global commerce and the intensifying trade dispute between the U.S. and China take their toll.
Inadequate airfield markings combined with insufficient preparation and coordination by pilots led to an Air India Airbus A320neo landing on an under-construction runway at Velana International Airport (MLE), a report from the Maldives Accident Investigation Coordinating Committee (AICC) said.
Colombia’s Avianca Holdings has secured a short-term loan of $50 million from its shareholder Kingsland Holdings, which will bring in needed working capital while the company executes its debt reprofiling.
Emirates Airline is in a stronger position than a year ago despite the macroeconomic and geopolitical challenges it faces in the marketplace, president Tim Clark said at the World Aviation Festival in London Sept. 5.
Virgin Australia and Air New Zealand are launching initiatives to identify cost savings, with Virgin cutting staff and considering fleet and network changes.
While dedicated Boeing operator Alaska Airlines continues to be coy about whether it will hold on to any of its Airbus aircraft acquired in its Virgin America purchase, one of the airline’s top executives acknowledges that the A321neo has advantages not found in the 737 family.
Insufficient clearance between a wire-bundle bracket screw and a hydraulic pipe feeding an engine component on certain ATR aircraft is causing damage to the pipe, leading EASA to call for modifications of the bundles.
