Air Transport

An Etihad Airways Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner featuring the Formula 1 themed livery had a double celebratory flypast yesterday as they featured in a special UAE flag formation over Yas Marina Circuit with the Al Fursan display team to commemorate the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the UAE's National Day.

This agreement is the first of its kind between Boeing and an African airline.

ICAO is upbeat about emissions-offsetting program, but some member-states worry that a few major players, like China, remain noncommittal.

All Nippon Airways is taking major steps in its investment strategy by buying a stake in Philippine Airlines and ordering new-generation narrowbodies from Boeing and Airbus.

Electric air race, reducing contrails, UK BVLOS UAV corridor, balloon-dropped UAV and the DLR’s integrated deicing.

Air Italy plans to end or modify three intercontinental routes, just months after starting to fly them.

As it prepares for its merger into the parent company, Singapore Airlines (SIA) subsidiary SilkAir has selected UK-based Thompson Aero Seating as the supplier for its Boeing 737 MAX 8 business-class refurbishment program.

Icelandair Group—which includes domestic operator Air Iceland Connect, capacity provider Loftleidir and several tourism-related subsidiaries—recorded a 2018 net loss of $55.6 million, reversed from a net profit of $37.5 million in 2017.

Aerospace and defense components manufacturer Arconic will break up, it’s days-old new leadership announced Feb. 8, with the company’s business sorted into Engineered Products & Forgings or Global Rolled Products, and one of them spun off.

Multinational aerospace engine and component company Safran has finalized the acquisition of Collins Aerospace’s electromechanical systems business unit.

The likelihood of using air taxis varies significantly among the four locations in which people were surveyed.

The likelihood of using air taxis varies significantly among the four locations in which people were surveyed.

Air Senegal has selected SITAONAIR to deploy its high-speed inflight connectivity (IFC) on its new-generation A330neo fleet – making Air Senegal the first airline on the African continent to activate Inmarsat's GX Aviation passenger connectivity onboard.

Tunisian businessman and politician Mohamed Frikha tells Martin Rivers why he is bringing Syphax Airlines back from the dead.

Reconfiguring larger CRJ model fits United’s plan and suggests that no pilot-scope changes are coming.

Kuwait Airways has taken delivery of its first A320neo aircraft.

Two key U.S. lawmakers overseeing federal transportation policy have introduced a bill that would keep the FAA fully funded during any future lapse in appropriations.

Aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, the largest subassembly provider to Boeing 737 and other commercial programs, are currently practicing in Wichita, Kansas for a narrowbody production rate of 57 aircraft a month.

Ernst Göhner Foundation, which owns approximately 46% of Swiss freight-forwarder Panalpina, has rejected a Panalpina takeover approach from Danish freight-forwarder DSV.

UK regional carrier Flybe has told shareholders that it had to sell off its operating companies, or face administration, adding that the empty holding company will be wound-up if shareholders do not back Connect Airways’ takeover offer.

Triumph Group is rushing toward the potential climax of its three-year restructuring, the major aerostructures provider’s chief executive indicated Feb. 7, but the supplier is cutting another 600 jobs and looking at a few more business unit divestitures on top of a slew of recently jettisoned work.

Aireon announced Feb. 7 that it has formally received control from Iridium of the final six receiver payloads it has placed on new Iridium Next satellites, completing its space-based aircraft surveillance network.

AirAsia X’s Thai affiliate is launching a route to Brisbane this year, giving the AirAsia X and AirAsia groups five destinations in Australia.

Orlando-Melbourne International Airport (MLB) officials in Melbourne, Florida, are seeking developers to build an upscale hotel with airfield access.

Lufthansa Group subsidiary Brussels Airlines has scrapped its entire schedule of 222 flights for Feb. 13 because of industrial action across various stakeholders operating at Brussels Airport, as part of a wider national strike in Belgium.