Italian railway company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) has until Apr. 30 to present a binding offer for Alitalia, after the Italian government and the commissioners managing the carrier since it declared bankruptcy extended a deadline, Italian media reported.
Lufthansa Systems is widening the number of companies that can use its BoardConnect platform for inflight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC), the company said at AIX in Hamburg.
It’s a piece of airline equipment that everybody hopes will never be needed, but if an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) does have to be pressed into use, it’s important that it should be as efficient as possible.
Airbus secured a second firm order for the A330-800 after Uganda Airlines firmed up an MOU originally announced at the Farnborough Airshow in July 2018.
Riga-based carrier airBaltic is opening new routes on a scope and scale that would not have been possible without the Airbus A220-300, which is rapidly becoming the mainstay of its fleet.
Even though timing and conditions of Brexit are unclear—as is its impact on air transport regulation—UK airports and airlines say they are already feeling a substantial negative effect on their business.
Korean Air Chairman and CEO Cho Yang-ho died Apr. 7, after helming the airline for more than 20 years and overseeing its development into one of Asia’s leading carriers.
Oman Air has issued a travel advisory to its guests flying to its Tanzanian destinations of Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar in the wake of the Tanzanian government’s ban on plastic.
Nesma Airlines boss Ashraf Lamloum tells Martin Rivers the company is adapting and finding new opportunities in its home markets of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Boeing announced late Apr. 5 it will slow 737 MAX production to 42 new aircraft a month by mid-April, adding to fears that the type’s grounding and delivery halt will last longer than industry initially expected.
FAA acting administrator Dan Elwell on Apr. 4 defended the qualifications of FAA Aviation Safety Inspectors (ASI) involved with the Flight Standardization Board (FSB) for the Boeing 737 MAX 8, saying “all of the flight inspectors who participated in the [FSB] certification activities were fully qualified.”
The aerospace industry is under constant pressure to contain costs. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are placing new demands on suppliers to cut prices or risk losing business to competitors.
Star Alliance member Turkish Airlines started the final relocation process from the carrier’s Istanbul Atatürk hub to the new Istanbul Airport Apr. 5 at 3:00 a.m. local time; the full move was expected to take 45 hrs.
German cabin interiors and aircraft systems supplier Diehl Aviation is developing a replacement for conventional loudspeakers in the passenger cabin using the lower panel of the overhead baggage compartment as a membrane.
Nine months before operators must equip aircraft flying in U.S. controlled airspace to signal their position by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) Out, FAA has issued a statement explaining how it will handle non-equipped aircraft.
Paris airports operator Groupe ADP said it will make €6 billion ($6.7 billion) of regulated investments in infrastructure in 2021-25 to prepare for the expected doubling of air traffic in the next 20 years.
Star Alliance member Turkish Airlines started the final relocation process from the carrier’s Istanbul Atatürk hub to the new Istanbul Airport on April 5 at 3:00 a.m. local time, which was expected to take 45 hrs.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA)—which had planned to take delivery of three Boeing 737 MAX 8s beginning in mid-April—will adjust its summer schedule as deliveries of the type are postponed until the U.S. manufacturer’s flight-control software upgrade is certified and the grounding is lifted.
HAMBURG—Aerostructure and wiring specialist Latecoere is developing a Li-Fi system, based on light signal transmission via optical fiber and light-modulation infrared LEDs, as a way to increase the bandwidth of inflight entertainment (IFE) systems.
Aspiring Canadian ULCC Jetlines said its first day of revenue flights will be Dec. 17—later than its most recent plans, but for the first time pinned to a definitive date.
If the Trump administration can talk with the Taliban and North Korea, surely it can work with the EU and Airbus to end the aircraft subsidy dispute at the WTO.
