Air Transport

By Alan Dron
One of the world’s largest airport projects has come to a halt, prompted by challenging economic conditions, Bloomberg reports.
Air Transport

Air Madagascar continues to implement its ‘Alefa 2027’ transformation plan that’s designed to revive this major airline player in the Indian Ocean and African regions.
Air Transport

South Africa’s Pegasus Universal Aerospace, pioneer of the Vertical Business Jet (VBJ) Pegasus One, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UK-based, technical aviation consultancy, Callen-Lenz Group.
Emerging Technologies

By Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick
Environmental targets are key, even though “flygskam” has not yet hurt the carrier’s bottom line.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
FRANKFURT - Norwegian is moving ahead with drastic proposals to ensure sufficient liquidity over the coming winter. The low-cost carrier is requesting an extension of around two years for the maturity of two bonds and is negotiating better terms with aircraft lessors. The airline said it is “executing on its strategic plan from growth to profitability and cash generation” and wants to “ensure successful operations and adequate liquidity headroom.”
Air Transport

Icelandair Group’s charter and leasing specialist, Loftleidir, has taken a majority shareholding in Cabo Verde Airlines. Alan Dron asks why the Nordic carrier is focusing on a tiny island group 5,000km south of its home?
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Agency completes drone traffic management testing in urban environments.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Norway’s Wideroe going electric; AFRL eyes hybrid-electric UAVs; Solid hydrogen for fuel cells; UK to decarbonize; Gliding from the stratosphere; UK waste-to-fuel.
Aerospace

Adam Konowe
With hundreds and occasionally thousands of exhibitors, small and medium-size enterprises often fail to stand out. Sadly, that is partly self-inflicted.
Business Aviation

Tunisia’s Syphax Airlines has secured a new Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) from the Tunisian civil aviation authority, reports ch-aviation.
Air Transport

Delta Air Lines pilots are asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to review the Delta-Aeroméxico transborder joint venture, saying the increased U.S. job and career opportunities promised by the alliance have failed to materialize.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
South African regional carrier SA Express resumed services Aug. 30 after a 48-hour stoppage—initiated when the country’s airport operator banned the airline from using its facilities because of unpaid debts.
Air Transport

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The selection of suppliers for the Russo-Chinese Craic CR929 widebody airliner has slipped beyond 2019, the program’s chief designer from the Russian side Maxim Litvinov told Aviation Daily at the MAKS Air Show taking place near Moscow this week.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Volocopter has conducted a test flight at Helsinki International Airport with its prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) air taxi.
Air Transport

A coalition of 28 environmental and public-health groups is protesting FAA’s push to provide regulatory relief for the civil supersonic aircraft industry.
Program Management

By Adrian Schofield
Airbus has announced new aerospace investments in Malaysia, including the expansion of its MRO subsidiary Sepang Aircraft Engineering (SAE).
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
AirAsia X has agreed to order more Airbus A330neos while also placing its first order for A321XLRs, following through on previous hints that it would add long-range narrowbodies to its fleet.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Advances in hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles are giving aerospace another low-carbon propulsion option.
Aerospace

By Sean Broderick
Crews from around the world will be involved, a notable shift in the FAA’s process.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick
Aviation Week has learned that design changes meant to provide more cabin flexibility are creating operational headaches.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Design changes meant to give Airbus A320neo-family operators more cabin flexibility are creating operational headaches for some carriers that must adhere to performance limitations triggered by unanticipated center-of gravity (CG) limitations, Aviation Week has learned.
Air Transport

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Irkut MC-21 received 20 new commitments at the MAKS 2019 Air Show, which is taking place this week in Zhukovsky near Moscow.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) is selling its PK AirFinance subsidiary to new private equity investors, the groups announced Aug. 29.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
London Gatwick Airport has started acting on plans to develop its existing northern runway, which is currently used as a standby, so smaller aircraft can depart alongside its main runway by the mid-2020s.
Air Transport

U.S. carriers should see continued top line revenue growth in 2020, driven by higher capacity from the re-entry of the Boeing 737 MAX, analysts at Cowen and Co. project said.
Air Transport