Air Transport

Fleet-wide interior upgrades planned by Qantas to keep its Boeing and Airbus models competitive

Irish budget carrier Ryanair has finalized its order for 100 737 MAX 200s and 100 options, confirming its status as launch customer for the high-capacity variant.

Dubbed “remote tower,” a sensor array allows air traffic services at the regional airfield to be provided by controllers located in the city of Adelaide, nearly 1500km away.

Upper ranks of the Chinese government have decided to split off the collection of factories and design institutes known as Avic Engine, say industry officials in China. The future of a separate subsidiary that is struggling to build a competitive civil turbofan, Avic Commercial Aircraft Engines (ACAE), is unconfirmed, but the unit must face a large risk of being folded into the mainstream aviation propulsion group, losing funding and priority.

For many of Asia’s major airlines, the boom days of previous industry cycles must seem like distant memories

Proposed changes in NTSB accident investigation procedures concern industry stakeholders

Vietjet Air has grown dramatically in three years—but things are likely to get tougher as it looks to file for an IPO and expand internationally

Pilots learning to fly the P-8A Poseidon are spending a majority of their time in simulator-based training.

Airline industry is measured by many metrics, from on-time performance to available seat kilometers.

New report criticizes government policy toward airlines in France, suggesting remedies to improve competitiveness

Until recently, the future appeared bright for aeroengine titan Rolls-Royce.

The airline is the latest among the small group of airlines transforming European air transport. While Ryanair and EasyJet prepared the way for low-cost short-haul travel and dominate that segment, Norwegian is third and takes the business model far beyond where the two pioneers stopped.

The concept of airlines forming leasing units is certainly not new, but the latest evolution sees more LCCs going down this path, particularly those with hundreds of narrowbody aircraft on order.

The airline will soon launch tenders for 100-seat aircraft and larger narrowbodies, aiming to double its fleet within the next 10 years.

Watch a NASA animation of a typical day of air traffic across the U.S.

The danger of a hobbyist or troublemaker flying a small, light, remotely piloted aircraft into the path of a commercial aircraft may be overblown due to the rigorous certification standards already in place for other unidentified flying objects—birds.

Increasing the assembly rate to 10 aircraft per month seems minute compared to Boeing and Airbus, but it is confirmation of ATR’s renaissance in the past decade.

Middle Eastern airlines are ramping up complaints against European carriers, as major Gulf airlines seek expanded traffic rights in Europe.

DOT should allow Norwegian Air International to fly to the U.S.

The new subsidiary, Fuzhou Airlines, will compete at one of the two key bases of China’s sixth-largest carrier, Xiamen Airlines, which plans a big lift in capacity next year at Fuzhou. The new carrier has begun flying to Beijing, and other early destinations will be Shanghai, Xian, Haikou, Taiyuan, Chongqing, Hefei, Kunming and Tianjin.

Airbus is launching the second generation of the outsize cargo aircraft that will be based on the larger and heavier A330-200. Five new Belugas will be built, the first of which will enter service in 2019 after a five-year development phase. They will progressively replace the current fleet and take over all special cargo flying for Airbus by 2025.

Despite the recent spate of large widebody aircraft orders by Japanese carriers, there still are opportunities for new contracts with these airlines, a senior Boeing executive says.

SAS and Finnair still facing challenges, but new aircraft, route expansions and leaner operations give them room to hope

Advocates on both sides of the debate over Norwegian Air are making their voices heard in Washington, D.C. this week.

American aerospace and defense companies are following growth overseas and trying to become just as “local” there as they are stateside.