As part of preparations for developing its UltraFan and other next-generation commercial and business jet engines, Rolls-Royce has selected a Boeing 747-400 formerly operated by Australian carrier Qantas Airways for conversion to a flying testbed.
UK LCC easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou has won legal actions against two airlines he alleged were infringing on his company’s use of the “Easy” brand.
Air France-KLM’s low-cost unit Transavia has appointed Air France-KLM cargo chief Marcel de Nooijer as its new CEO beginning Jan. 1, taking over from Mattijs ten Brink, who left at the end of September.
The British government is planning to introduce airline insolvency reform legislation in a bid to strengthen consumer protections and provide more oversight of distressed carriers.
Indian Ocean equity partners Air Austral and Air Madagascar plan to procure six Airbus A220-300 to unify their short- and mid- haul fleet renewals, starting with an initial firm order for three.
A new alliance of government, aerospace and manufacturing organizations is promoting creation of a commercially operated civilian supersonic corridor to allow developers of supersonic transports to flight-test their aircraft over land.
Aero Engine Corp. of China (AECC) has produced turbine-engine parts in ceramic matrix composite (CMC), a material that offers low weight and high resistance to temperature.
The European Commission (EC) has cleared the way for a government-backed emergency loan to leisure carrier Condor, giving the company much-needed financing for the winter season and more time to find a new investor.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced global passenger traffic data for August 2019 showing that demand (measured in total revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) climbed 3.8% compared to the year-ago period. This was above the 3.5% annual increase for July.
Boeing has demoted Dennis Muilenburg on the board of directors, and giving the chair seat to the company’s leading independent director, David Calhoun, in the wake of the 737 MAX fiasco. Muilenburg will remain president and CEO.
Accenture’s aerospace and defense practice now sees the overall 2019 commercial aerospace market growing only 2.5% year-over-year, compared with 4.7% in 2018.
A task force of global civil aviation regulators has found gaps in the FAA’s certification process that contributed to insufficient reviews of the Boeing 737 MAX flight control system, and made a dozen recommendations aimed at ensuring the aircraft’s airworthiness and improving the agency’s product-approval requirements.
Norwegian Air Shuttle said it would boost frequencies to some of its U.S. destinations from London next summer in response to demand, but will reduce flights to Buenos Aires, Miami, Rio de Janeiro and Orlando, Florida.
Triumph Group’s continued breakup to the benefit of TECT Aerospace has rolled along with a deal for Triumph’s assembly operations in Nashville, Tennessee.
Raytheon and United Technologies shareowners “overwhelmingly” approved all proposals necessary to complete the merger of UTC’s aerospace businesses—Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney—with Raytheon, the companies announced Oct. 11.
Air France is looking at ways to “comfortably densify the economy cabins” as it seeks a competitive response to the threat of long-haul low-cost carriers (LCCs), according to Air France-KLM EVP Angus Clarke.
