While the sunsetting of the US Airways brand is the most public change from its merger with American, most of the work of integration happened behind the scenes and in fact is continuing.
There is still disagreement over whether short-term aircraft demand has already peaked or is about to—or whether there is time left until the going gets much tougher.
The US-based Flight Safety Foundation said investigators’ conclusion about the missile that brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 may make this the rare airline crash that calls for a criminal prosecution.
Air Astana expects to take delivery of its first leased Airbus A320neo in October, six months behind schedule, the Kazakhstan flag carrier’s president and CEO Peter Foster told ATW in Almaty.
The missile that brought down a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, killing all 298 people onboard, was brought in from Russia and fired from a field controlled by pro-Russian rebels, the official investigation team announced Wednesday.
An intercontinental transfer operation can be based largely on narrowbody aircraft, thanks to their rising range and the central location of Air Astana’s bases.
While everything still hinges on the precooler technology of Reaction Engines’ Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), the Air Force Research Laboratory sees huge potential for the propulsion concept
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft has announced that its CS300 jetliner—the second CS300 flight test vehicle—has embarked on a series of European and Middle Eastern route-proving flights alongside first operator airBaltic of Latvia.
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.’s first MRJ90 test aircraft is expected to land in the US within a week, after an earlier attempt was aborted because of a technical fault.
The second Airbus A350-1000 flight test aircraft—the first to be equipped with a full passenger cabin—was displayed Sept. 23 in a new carbon fiber-themed livery outside the manufacturer’s paint shop in Toulouse, France.
Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea plans to increase the pace of its re-fleeting plans, which include switching from Boeing 717s to Airbus A319s in 2017, as it moves toward an all-European fleet over the next few years.
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has upheld a US claim that the European Union (EU) has failed to act on illegal Airbus subsidies, but has rejected other allegations related to the Airbus A380 and A350 programs.
As NASA widens its search for ultra-efficient X-plane demonstrators, little-known design house Dzyne Technologies unveils its proposal for a blended wing-body business jet and small airliner.
