Chief technology officers (CTOs) from Airbus, Boeing, Dassault, GE Aviation, Rolls-Royce, Safran and United Technologies (UTC) used a Paris Air Show forum to voice their shared commitment to sustainable aviation, while acknowledging that a lot remains unknown.
Honeywell has announced its selection as an authorized value-added reseller of the SmartSky Networks’ 4G LTE air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity service for airlines in North America, becoming the first such reseller for airlines.
The sprawling aircraft-leasing community is bound to consolidate, though it is unlikely to get down to just a handful of players, the top executive of GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) said.
GE Aviation and Lufthansa Systems this week are demonstrating a “connected” flight management system (FMS) data-sharing capability with electronic flight bags (EFB).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will have to cancel some interviews for its Global Entry program through the end of fiscal 2019 in response to staffing shortages caused by a surge in migrant arrivals at the Southwestern U.S. border.
Hybrid-electric aircraft developer Ampaire has announced a 50-aircraft launch order from Personal Airline Exchange (PAX), a U.S. startup that plans to offer per-seat, on-demand charter services.
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) has signed an offtake agreement to purchase sustainable aviation fuel from LanzaTech, with deliveries planned to begin in 2021.
Airlines from Pacific Island nations are taking initial steps towards collaborating in areas such as purchasing and safety, as they look for ways to address common business challenges.
A blossoming partnership between Ethiopian Airlines and Collins Aerospace broadens the airline’s already sizable MRO services business while helping the supplier gain a foothold in a region primed for growth.
Turboprop airframer ATR is continuing to explore hybrid aircraft technologies and biofuels, but in the nearer term CEO Stefano Bortoli believes higher fuel prices could trigger more aircraft orders.
Passenger and cargo airlines around the world are re-routing their flights into and over the Middle East after FAA issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) banning U.S.-based civil aircraft from flying over the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, citing “inadvertent risk to U.S. civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification.”
U.S. antitrust officials blessed the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation on June 20, with the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) announcing terms for allowing the deal that match what the companies were already doing.
French airport operator Groupe ADP plans to install an experimental vertiport at one of its 10 Paris-area aerodrome locations to test all components of an urban air mobility (UAM) service that could be launched for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, which will hosted by Paris.
With forgings and castings for commercial aviation engines remaining a chokepoint in the narrowbody supply chain, engine OEM General Electric is trying to diversify away from traditional providers Arconic and Berkshire Hathaway’s Precision Castparts, analysts said at the Paris Air Show.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told investors during the Paris Air Show that further bump-ups in production rates of commercial narrowbody aircraft could come around 2022-23, and that discussions with suppliers are ongoing.
Emirates Airline is in talks with Boeing to spread out deliveries of the Boeing 777X over a longer period of time and will likely switch to the 787-9 from the larger -10 for which it had placed a preliminary order at the 2017 Dubai Air Show.
L3 Commercial Aviation subsidiary ACSS is launching the SafeRoute+ retrofit system for reception and display of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) In target data from surrounding aircraft.
Air France-KLM and hotel group Accor said they were strengthening their partnership by offering a dual reward scheme in what they said was a European travel industry first.
L3 Commercial Aviation is planning to build its first U.S. airline training center, which will open in October and be co-located with the company’s Arlington, Texas-based L3 Link Training & Simulation facility.
The Paris Air Show shed no light on when the Boeing 737 MAX will return to service, but it provided a major morale boost for the tattered model all the same thanks to a 200-aircraft commitment from an airline consortium led by an iconic carrier.
