Air Transport

Air Austral and Air Madagascar have materialised a crucial step in their strategic partnership.

The Farnborough Airshow will be buzzing around the digitalization of the aerospace and defense industries. Forget composite materials and Sharklets; think blockchain and artificial intelligence.

As Airbus heads to Farnborough Airshow, it faces potentially devastating fallout of a hard Brexit and the challenges of many changes in top leadership.

Oman Air is continuing its expansion across Europe by extending its codeshare agreement with Lufthansa.

A new era in East African aviation opened today when Air Tanzania took delivery of its very first wide-body aircraft, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 TEN engines.

Airbus is continuing its route-proving program toward A330neo certification, completing a 2-hr. leg from Chicago O’Hare to Atlanta Hartsfield on July 7.

Garuda Indonesia has averted a strike threat following an agreement with key employee unions.

Norwegian regional carrier Widerøe signed a codeshare agreement with Air France.

The European Commission has opened an in-depth state aid investigation into Ryanair’s marketing agreements related to Montpellier Airport in France.

Nigerian startup Green Africa Airways has completed its initial financing push in partnership with pan-African investment manager Kuramo Capital, and has begun negotiations for its future fleet.

Ethiopian Airlines Group is to start manufacturing aircraft-interior components in Ethiopia, after forming a partnership with German cabin specialist ACM Aerospace.

Airbus CEO Tom Enders accused the British government of having “no clue, or no consensus” of how to achieve Brexit without severe harm.

Airbus has started reducing the number of A320neo family “gliders” awaiting engines at its facilities in Toulouse and Hamburg.

Silverstone Air is the latest low-cost carrier to enter the east African market space. Githae Mwaniki takes a closer look at what’s on offer.

The A350-1000 is Airbus' latest widebody and the manufacturer has high hopes the aircraft will be a big sales success. Aviation Week & Space Technology evaluation pilot Tim Wuerfel was given the opportunity to test-fly the aircraft from the company's Toulouse base.

As the 2018 Farnborough Airshow showcases the latest and greatest in aviation and aerospace, we look at some of the technologies shaping the industry’s future.

The aircraft proves easy to fly manually and brings a new level of safety-enhancing automation to the airliner cockpit.

Following months of negotiations, Boeing and Embraer have signed an MOU to set up a joint venture (JV) comprising Embraer’s commercial aircraft and services business.

An Irish union representing Ryanair pilots has pledged to go ahead with a strike planned for July 12 over concerns about base transfers and pilot seniority agreements, even after the airline appealed for the strike to be called off.

EasyJet said over 1,000 more flights were canceled in June than in the same month in 2017, mainly because of French and Italian air traffic control (ATC) strikes.

Japan’s Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA) returned the first of its freighters to service July 5, after its fleet was grounded for several days due to irregularities in maintenance records.

Chinese maintenance operator Ameco, owned by Air China and Lufthansa, has been suspended from all activities except line maintenance following repeated, alleged safety violations involving Air China aircraft.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and industry has formed a consortium to develop technologies for electrifying aircraft and incubate initiatives to grow the country’s aviation sector.

The eastern Chinese city Jinan expects airlines to open services connecting it with Finland, France and Germany this year.

The Senegalese authorities have appointed ex-Airbus executive, Philip Bohn, as director general of Air Senegal SA to head-up its mission to relaunch the company.