Aigle Azur is experiencing strong demand for its first long-haul flights, to Sao Paulo Viracopos Airport in Brazil, CEO Frantz Yvelin told Aviation Daily.
Air China has trimmed frequencies on four intercontinental routes from Shanghai Pudong International Airport, including a service to the Frankfurt hub of Star Alliance partner Lufthansa.
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that its former chairman Masaru Onishi will work with the carrier in an external advisory role after his official retirement.
The main airport for Bali, Indonesia reopened after a temporary closure because of a volcanic ash cloud, but airlines are taking different views on whether to resume operations.
PARIS—The mandate of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has been widened to include drones and urban air mobility under a new regulation due to come into force in the coming weeks.
Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) is achieving strong growth in passenger and aircraft traffic, as it undertakes construction on major runway and terminal projects.
Green Africa Airways completed its Series A round of financing with Kuramo Capital, a Pan African independent investment management group based in New York with additional offices in Lagos and Nairobi.
Airbus will fly its brand new A330neo to Mauritius for the first time, as part of the final phase of test flights leading to the Type Certification of its latest mid-size widebody airliner.
NASA has laid out a three-phase program to collect data on public acceptance of reduced sonic booms using the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works-developed low-boom demonstrator, which has been designated the X-59A QueSST.
Southwest Airlines is adding about 15 daily flights, including nonstop service to six new markets, out of Dallas Love Field (DAL) early next year, crediting schedule-optimization for creating room to fly out of its already-crowded headquarters airport.
Over 23,000 commercial aircraft will offer connectivity to their passengers by 2027, up from 7,400 in 2017, a report by satellite market research specialist Euroconsult said, consolidating forecasts made by connectivity service and hardware providers.
The UK government urgently needs to hammer out a withdrawal agreement from the European Union to avoid massive disruption to the aerospace industry on both sides of the Atlantic, said Michael Huerta, the former FAA administrator.
The number of Bombardier C Series deliveries in the first half of the year is well short of the pace needed to hit the company’s full-year target of 40, but recent improvements suggest the mark could still be within reach.
European aviation industry groups gave a cautious welcome to news that the ICAO Council has agreed on a set of standards for the planned Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
Philippine Airlines (PAL) has made a financing agreement with lessors GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) and Novus Aviation Capitol to cover the acquisition of four Airbus A321neos.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian reaffirmed his interest in Boeing’s potential new mid-market aircraft (NMA), which he referred to as the 797, but is far less certain of the need for another potential new airliner that Boeing unveiled this week—a Mach 5 hypersonic aircraft.
The air transport industry’s global emissions scheme progressed one step further this week when a set of standards was agreed at an ICAO Council meeting in Montreal.
