Delta Air Lines' push to control costs and generate revenues through its growing inventory of premium products is helping the carrier offset rising fuel expenses, and executives believe the airline is on track to mitigate all of 2019's expected fuel-cost increase.
Airbus has completed the second of three flight-test campaigns in the Blade demonstration program, aimed at evaluating the feasibility of natural laminar flow on a commercial aircraft.
International Airlines Group (IAG) said British Airways’ director of network, fleet and alliances Sean Doyle will replace outgoing Aer Lingus chief executive Stephen Kavanagh.
CEFA Aviation, a France-based company specializing in flight replay via animation, is offering pilots the ability to virtually relive their flight immediately after landing, instead of waiting for conventional, lengthy flight data analysis processes.
The runway at Yakutsk airport was iced over when a Yakutia Airline Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) skidded off Oct. 9, Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said in an Oct. 10 statement.
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a competition investigation into the Atlantic Joint Business Agreement, a transatlantic partnership between American Airlines, British Airways, Iberia and Finnair.
The U.S. Justice Department arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio, agency officials said Oct. 10.
JetBlue's newly announced additions to its Boston, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) schedules represent the next steps in its strategy of increasing margins by fortifying already-strong networks in its three focus cities.
WestJet will base its initial Boeing 787s at its Calgary, Alberta, hub and launch nonstop services next year to three European cities in its network, bringing two new routes to Calgary International Airport (YYC) in the process, the airline confirmed Oct. 10.
Twenty aviation companies have presented a seven-step “Smart and Sustainable” plan to the Dutch infrastructure minister with the goal of cutting at least 35% of Netherlands-originated civil-aviation CO2 emissions by 2030.
Swedish aircraft humidity-control specialist CTT Systems said it will be affected seriously by Boeing’s decision to no longer include its Zonal Drying moisture-control system as basic equipment on the 787.
Lufthansa and Ryanair‘s Austria-based LCC, LaudaMotion, have agreed to end a dispute over aircraft leases that escalated in July. Both companies now can avoid a Nov. 18 court hearing in London.
Former Ryanair Deputy CEO and CFO Howard Millar has emerged as CEO of Sirius Aviation Capital Holdings Ltd. (SACHL), a new Dublin-based narrowbody lessor that is looking to raise $250 million initially through an initial public offering (IPO).
Air France-KLM has made progress toward resolving a long-running conflict over pay with Air France’s workforce after one of its pilots’ unions agreed in principle to accept a new offer put forward by the group’s new CEO.
Vietnamese LCC Vietjet is increasing its presence in Japan thanks to new routes between the two countries and aircraft financing agreements involving Japanese companies.
Boeing’s output continued to rebound from the summer as 86 commercial aircraft were delivered in September to 31 airlines and eight lessors—up from 60 deliveries in August and 40 in July—achieving a pace of 2.9 aircraft per day.
As Primera Air learned the hard way, in an era of high jet fuel prices unless they have new and efficient fleets, long-haul budget airlines are doomed.
