Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Estonia’s Nordic Aviation Group (Nordica) has posted a €5.4 million ($6.1 million) full-year loss, just days after announcing a retraction from its Tallinn home market where Latvian rival airBaltic is poised for expansion.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
South African Airways (SAA) has detailed plans to lease in Airbus A350-900s to operate its nonstop Johannesburg-New York JFK flights, replacing the A340-600s currently serving the route.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Aircraft lessor and MRO provider Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has repurchased a 4% shareholding that was held by Emaar Properties PJSC, returning the company to state ownership.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Universal Avionics is developing a supplemental type certificate (STC) for an Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) on the Airbus A320, thus paving the way for operators to retrofit their aircraft with a technology enabling low-visibility landing.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Aircalin, the national airline of New Caledonia, is planning the complete replacement of its jet fleet with the delivery of new Airbus widebodies and narrowbodies beginning soon.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Pacific Island carrier Air Kiribati is planning to extend its reach to international tourist markets by introducing Embraer E190-E2s.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Toulouse-based aerostructures and wiring specialist Latecoere said Searchlight Capital Partners—the investment fund that took a 26% stake of Latecoere in April—intends to make a takeover offer.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
American Airlines has returned 14 weekly frequencies it used for flights between Chicago and both Beijing and Shanghai, citing an inability to re-start the economically challenging services “in the near future” after suspending them last year.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Bernstein Research warns that late deliveries of Boeing 737 MAXs to European airlines will make an already imbalanced supply and demand equation worse for European airlines and sees only limited benefit for the sector of two possible major bankruptcies.
Air Transport

Four unions representing U.S. aviation safety inspectors and mechanics wrote to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urging the department to implement three long-delayed Congressional directives intended to boost oversight of foreign repair stations that work on U.S. aircraft.
Air Transport

Gulf Air has revealed its business plans for 2019 to internal and external stakeholders during its commercial conference held in Manama, Bahrain, as part of its ongoing commitment to strengthen its position as a national asset to the economic growth of the Kingdom.
Air Transport

Ethiopian Airlines is to launch flights to Garowe, Somalia, via Bossaso, Somalia effective 15 July 2019.
Air Transport

The first of Air Tanzania’s four weekly flights between South Africa and the East African nation took to the skies from O. R. Tambo International Airport today after more than ten years.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Boeing courts Cora; LeoLabs aids space regulator; H55’s electric trainer; Jet fuel from the Sun; Drone parachutes get nod; Looking into fighter pilot brains.
Aerospace

By Thierry Dubois
With Thales’ new FMS, “open-world” information will be allowed to enter safety-critical applications.
Connected Aerospace

The chairs of two U.S. House committees overseeing aviation security have introduced legislation that would require TSA to implement an improved covert testing program to identify security gaps in its screening process.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
Icelandair is drafting in aircraft from one of its sister-companies as it continues to try to offset problems arising from the grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Air France and KLM plan to swap their remaining firm orders for Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 orders as the aligned carriers seek to gain fleet efficiencies through harmonization and accelerated growth of similar aircraft at both airlines, the Air France-KLM group said June 28.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa Cargo is seriously evaluating a much speedier retirement of its remaining MD-11F fleet, the company confirmed.
Air Transport

The governments of the United States and Argentina have signed a protocol modernizing the 1985 Air Transport Agreement between the two countries.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
The substantial fleet changes planned by Emirates Airline will have a major impact on how its home base Dubai International Airport (DXB) will operate in the future, the airport’s CEO Paul Griffiths said.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Integrating the former Bombardier program into the Airbus organization has been a major focus over the past year.
Air Transport

His pursuit of his vision for a family of Airbus commercial airliners was one of the most important reasons for the company’s success over the decades.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick, Michael Bruno
Mitsubishi to acquire CRJ sales and support network to support its SpaceJet regional jet, but Bombardier will end production in 2020.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau
Boeing hopes software changes will correct the issue, but it’s unclear whether the chip hardware needs to be changed.
Air Transport