The UK’s primary air navigation services provider, NATS, has developed a system harnessing NASA satellite data to create what it describes as “the world’s most accurate model for testing unsafe altitudes.”
Yemen’s first privately owned airline, Felix Airways (FO), is set to launch a fleet renewal program, moving away from its low-cost carrier (LCC) business model.
Russia’s Aeroflot (SU) will take delivery of its first Boeing 777 in 2013, part of an order for eight 777s in March 2011 and eight of the type at the Paris Air Show
Azerbaijan's air navigation service provider, AZANS, has awarded Indra of Spain the contract for installing a new air traffic control center in the nation’s capital Baku.
Lufthansa (LH) will make Chicago its third destination airport for the Boeing 747-8I, for which the carrier was the launch customer and which entered service in June.
Airbus, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone and China Aviation Industry Corp. (AVIC) have signed a framework agreement to extend the joint venture Airbus A320 Final Assembly Line in Tianjin beyond the 2016 expiration of the original accord inked in 2007.
Turboprop manufacturer ATR is working on a series of upgrades for its newest ATR 42- and 72-600 family, enabling them to operate to airports with limited ground installations, extreme cold weather and steep approaches.
Forensics, data and collaboration are the key tools to transforming accident investigations from reactive to predictive processes, the US National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) chief said Tuesday.
Ireland has become one of the first European countries to implement the Centralized Code Assignment and Management System (CCAMS), a cooperative European initiative aimed at streamlining the way Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) codes are distributed and assigned.
FLY Leasing has acquired two Boeing 737-800 aircraft manufactured in 1998. The aircraft are on lease to Russia’s Transaero Airlines. The new acquisitions were financed with secured bank debt and FLY’s free cash. CIT Aerospace will lease two new GEnx-1B70-powered Boeing 787-8s to Aeromexico, with deliveries scheduled in 2015 and 2016. GE Capital Aviation delivered two new Boeing 737-800s to Lion Air under a purchase and leaseback transaction.
The Lufthansa Group on Monday phased out the last of its Avro RJ85 at its CityLine subsidiary, after it completed flight LH1985 from Cologne to Munich.
Russia’s UTair (UT) has chosen CFM International’s CFM56-5B engine for its fleet of 20 Airbus A321 aircraft, part of an aircraft deal announced at the Farnborough Airshow.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) has announced plans to launch a 130-140-seat aircraft program, UAC president Mikhail Pogosyan said at the International Air Transport Forum in Ulyanovsk.
Japan Airlines (JAL) will install new seats in every cabin class on its 13 Boeing 777-300ERs with eight in first- , 49 in business-, 40 in premium economy- and 135 in economy-class.
