Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Parts provider and aftermarket specialist Heico on Aug. 30 announced its Flight Support Group has acquired Optical Display Engineering (ODE).
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
Irish regional carrier CityJet has taken a further major step away from being a scheduled carrier toward becoming a capacity provider for others.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Honeywell International is looking to generate new sales by offering up its aerospace and defense engineering and testing groups for outsourcing .
Business Aviation

By Linda Blachly
Airbus has rolled out the first of three A380s for Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) from the final assembly line in Toulouse.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas Airways has announced its intent to appoint former IATA and Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Tony Tyler to its board of directors.
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
The ATSB)has issued a safety advisory following an incident in which a Malaysia Airlines A330-300 was forced to turn back to Brisbane Airport due to three attached pitot tube covers.
Air Transport

Thai LCC Nok Air is facing a leadership transition, as CEO Piya Yodmani steps down to be succeeded by Pravej Ongartsittigul as acting CEO.
Air Transport

By Guy Norris
Boeing has finalized a landing gear design for the 737-10 taller than other MAX models, for the same wheel well. How was this innovative design achieved?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing’s finalized landing gear design for the 737-10 is taller than the other MAX models, but which still fits in the same wheel well. See how this innovatively packaged design was achieved.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Rearranging existing space often means coming up with better ways to serve both passengers and tenants while accepting constraints of an airport’s footprint.
Air Transport

By Mark Nensel
IATA DG and CEO Alexandre de Juniac is attributing the slowing pace of growth in the global air freight market to rising trade tensions between the U.S. and China, saying on Aug. 29 “trade wars only produce losers.”
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
WestJet, continuing to fine-tune its network strategy as Canada's LCC market heats up, will add frequencies by subsidiary Swoop to the Edmonton-Winnipeg market that already boasts its own mainline service, as well as regional and ULCC frequencies.
Air Transport

With jet fuel prices continuing to climb, profitability for U.S. commercial carriers declined in the first half of 2018, according to Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group Airlines for America (A4A).
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
British Airways’ (BA) regional airline BA CityFlyer is to base four more Embraer 190s at London City Airport in 2019, adding 20% more capacity at the downtown facility.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Australian manufacturer Thomas Global Systems said a “major North American operator” has selected its new TFD-7000 series flight displays for retrofit on its Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Star Alliance carrier Ethiopian Airlines has finalized a joint venture (JV) with the Chad government, paving the way for the launch of that country’s new national carrier on Oct. 1.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
India’s Jet Airways is pursuing a cost-cutting program following the announcement of a major net loss for the quarter that ended June 30.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia achieved its strongest underlying profit in a decade for its financial year that ended June 30, although its net loss grew due to significant one-off accounting adjustments.
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
HNA’s Capital Airlines will discontinue its service between Beijing and Lisbon, Portugal, after mid-October, just 15 months after the route opened.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Orders revealed at the Farnborough Airshow have raised questions about their actual status. The lack of clarity is damaging, not least for the manufacturers.
Air Transport

By Michael Bruno
Boomer retirements may portend one of the greatest gold rushes in living memory: small and midsize M&A.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
The vision of airport innovators is to create a network of labs working collaboratively to serve customers better and increase revenue.
Air Transport

By Mark Nensel
The FAA is awarding its fourth round of U.S. airport infrastructure grants for 2018, having released an additional $616.9 million to lift the total airport improvement program (AIP) funding year-to-date to $2.7 billion.
Air Transport

Icelandair President & CEO Björgólfur Jóhannsson resigned Aug. 27 as the group further lowered its EBITDA guidance for 2018 to $80-$100 million, down by about 50% since the beginning of the year.
Air Transport

The U.S. Congress is facing a fast-approaching deadline to pass budget legislation reauthorizing the FAA, as it appears increasingly likely that lawmakers will approve another short-term extension for the agency, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Air Transport