Airbus and Bombardier say their C Series plans, including an assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, for U.S. customers will continue, despite end of tariff threat.
In a project aimed at receiving an increased amount of accurate information on estimated departure times, Europe’s air traffic management organization Eurocontrol recently conducted a shadow-mode exercise at Alicante-Elche Airport, Spain.
Boeing’s price-dumping case against Bombardier over the sale of C Series aircraft a U.S. airline has been overturned by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), ending the threat of tariffs of almost 300% on C Series imports into the U.S.
Satellite providers are hosting new satellites and adding high-throughput capacity to existing networks to better position themselves for airlines’ inflight-connectivity needs.
Mexico City-based LCC Interjet will make San Francisco the 10th U.S. airport in its network when it adds flights from both Cancun and Guadalajara March 14.
Following a massive injection of new aircraft in the four years following its December 2013 emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and merger with US Airways, American Airlines is slowing the pace of its fleet renewal and dialing back spending on aircraft.
India’s Saras regional turboprop has returned to flight at the National Aerospace Laboratories in Bengaluru, almost 14 years after its first flight and two years after the program was shelved.
Passenger traffic through French airports grew 3.7% year-over-year (YOY) in December, and 6.1% YOY for full-year 2017 to 164 million passengers, reported DGAC, the country’s aviation agency.
Norwegian state-owned airport operator Avinor is out front of an ambitious effort to ensure electric aircraft operate all of the country’s domestic flights by 2040.
General Electric’s push into additive manufacturing (AM) is reaping benefits for its aviation business and quickly emerging as a profit center, the company’s top executive reported.
A one-time non-cash gain related to late-year passage of the U.S. tax-reform law helped to lift JetBlue Airways’ net profit to $1.1 billion in 2017, the New York-based carrier said.
Alaska Air Group says its integration of Virgin America should be largely complete by early spring and is expected to deliver $65 million in synergies this year on its way to $200 million in 2019.
While ATR is working on an advanced vision system, lighter seats and a short-takeoff-and-landing version, it must help customers with a regional pilot shortage.
Southwest Airlines “turned the corner” on unit revenue growth in 2017, edging into positive territory for the full year, and expects momentum in revenue per available-seat-mile (RASM) to continue in 2018 with 1-2% year-over-year (YOY) growth in the first quarter, Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly said.
With almost 14,300 Leap engines on order and CFM56s continuing to be produced in larger numbers than forecast, CFM International says it aims to close a 4-5-week gap between planned and actual powerplant deliveries to Airbus and Boeing by the end of 2018.
