Air Transport

The illegal trade in wild animals and animal products amounts to around $23 billion a year, much of it operating around the air transport sector. Now, however, the fightback has started, as Anuradha Deenapanray reports.

Britten-Norman’s Islander, widely used for short flights in remote areas, is set to get an electric-propulsion makeover.

William H. Gregory, a World War II naval aviator, joined Aviation Week in 1956 and served as editor-in-chief from 1979 to 1984.

A look at how the World Trade Organization decisions and subsequent government moves will affect the aviation industry.

China’s Ehang has delivered a second batch of autonomous air taxis to customers.

Planned tariffs on aircraft imports to the U.S. from Europe would apply to about 15% of the Airbus backlog, Aviation Week Fleet Data Services show, though many questions—from how lessors are affected to what happens with U.S.-assembled A320s, remain unanswered.

American Airlines narrowed its Q3 revenue guidance and said the absence of Boeing 737 MAXs from its operation shaved $140 million off its Q3 pretax income as well as resulting in 9,475 flight cancellations.

Embraer has demonstrated autonomous taxiing using a Legacy 500 business jet at its base in Gaviao Peixoto, Brazil.

ATR is targeting customers operating out of space-constrained airports with the formal launch of a STOL (short-takeoff-and-landing) version of the ATR 42-600, for which it has 20 commitments.

A high-level task force on drone mitigation calls for shared responsibility by airports and governments.

KLM CEO Pieter Elbers sees no urgent need to decide soon on a replacement aircraft for its narrowbody Boeing 737s.

Air France KLM chief executives say it is too early to see what effects the new strategic cooperation between Delta Air Lines and LATAM will have on the SkyTeam alliance and its member-partners.

Bernstein analysts see risk for Boeing’s ability to maintain 787 production at 14 per month in coming years.

Biofuel supplier SkyNRG has introduced a program that is geared to enabling corporations to reduce emissions from their business air travel by contributing to development of a production facility for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be built in the Netherlands.

British budget carrier easyJet said it expects its full-year profit to be at the top end of its previous estimates, helped partly by increased demand due to strikes at British Airways and Ryanair.

The FAA said the last two of 155 U.S. airports in a plan now receive and display aircraft targets by automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B), completing the agency’s final implementation goal for the program.

With Britain once again on the abyss of a “no-deal” Brexit, the government has started issuing guidance to the aerospace industry to get ready.

Why regional aviation has never been more crucial to the global aviation industry.

With backing from KLM, a scale flying model of an unconventional fuel-efficient long-haul airliner concept made its debut at the airline’s 100th anniversary celebrations.

A lawsuit filed by SWAPA accuses Boeing of deliberately misrepresenting and withholding “safety critical” details about the 737 for years.

Citing a need for 10,000 new pilots in the next decade, United Airlines announced a new Aviate pilot recruitment program.

Seaplane operator Harbour Air has installed a 540-kw (750-hp) electric motor in a de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver, with first flight expected by the end of November.

Vietnam Airlines plans to introduce its first inflight Wi-Fi internet connectivity on selected international and domestic flights this week.

Hawaiian Airlines has revised its financial outlook for the third quarter due largely to a better-than-expected revenue performance.

The rise of populism and nationalist foreign policies and the Boeing 737 MAX recertification are threats to what has been a stable cooperative environment.