As CEO of Airbus, Tom Enders has transformed the European aerospace giant from a cross-national conglomerate to an integrated company and made crucial product decisions, including the launch of the A320neo family.
Details of Boeing’s plans to upgrade the 737 MAX’s flight control system are increasing the glare on flight-deck human factors breakdowns in the model’s design.
Boeing Commercial Aircraft’s top salesman asserted Mar. 21 that changes to the 737 MAX related to the crash of Lion Air Flight 610 will be approved by U.S. authorities in April, reiterating that safety continues to be the core mission of the embattled manufacturer.
Etihad Airways and Gulf Air plan to step up their recently signed wide-ranging cooperative agreement by instituting a codeshare from the start of the industry’s summer timetable season.
Russia´s Atran Airlines, an air express subsidiary of Volga-Dnepr Group, has taken delivery of its first Boeing 737-800BCF, Mar. 20, making the carrier the first operator of the type in the country.
Airlines for America (A4A) is urging the U.S. Congress to reject proposed fee hikes on air travel that were included as part of the White House’s recently-released fiscal 2020 budget proposal.
Indonesia LCC Lion Air is readying itself for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report by Bloomberg. The airline is targeting to raise about $1 billion in funds when listed in the Indonesian Stock Exchange (IDX).
British Airways (BA) has brought in assistance on another route as it seeks to cope with the continuing disruption caused by problems with its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.
Saudi Arabian-based Nexus is rapidly gaining a reputation throughout Africa for service excellence. Now, as Alan Dron reports, it is being courted by a number of different countries on the continent.
U.S. operators with Boeing 737 MAXs are shuffling aircraft assignments and canceling flights to address gaps created by having the grounded aircraft unavailable, and may have enough flexibility to keep the ramifications of a short-term grounding minimal.
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Elaine Chao on Mar. 19 requested the Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiate a probe to review the process FAA used to certify the Boeing 737 MAX as safe prior to the two fatal crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia.
By nominating Steve Dickson to serve as the next FAA administrator, U.S. President Donald Trump has advanced the name of a former airline pilot steeped in the NextGen air traffic control (ATC) modernization effort, who also served as a prominent opponent of spinning off the agency’s ATC function to a separate entity.
All Nippon Airways (ANA)—in the last such Airbus-organized event for this particular aircraft model—took delivery of its first A380 Mar. 20 in Toulouse.
The sale of Malaysia flag carrier Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) might not be as soon and easy as it seems, despite Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad saying Mar. 20 that there are “local and foreign firms expressing interest.”
European nations are making uneven progress toward meeting Single European Sky surveillance and communications technology requirements, according to the organization tasked with coordinating air traffic management (ATM) common projects.
Despite the crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX 8s in five months, Qatar Airways Group CEO Akbar Al Baker says his confidence in the aircraft and the manufacturer remains unchanged.
