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By Sean Broderick
Convincing U.S. lawmakers to revisit the 2010 law that required the FAA to boost minimum flight hours for airline pilots to 1,500 hr. will require a unified push backed with data to support revised standards, executives from two major carriers said.
Maintenance & Training

By Victoria Moores
Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways have joined Boeing, Safran, Panasonic Avionics and U.S. IT company Riverbed Technology in the Seamless Air Alliance (SAA), which aims to make it easier for passengers to access inflight connectivity.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Alan Dron
Angolan carrier Bestfly has moved into the regional jet market as it steps up its services in Cabo Verde.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Korean Air managed to post impressive profits in the 2022 first quarter (Q1), with freight operations again a major factor and passenger services starting to make more gains as well.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Canadian regional aviation specialist Chorus Aviation has completed its acquisition of UK-headquartered lessor Falko Regional Aircraft, triggering investment firm Brookfield Asset Management to take a 12.5% stake in Chorus, as planned.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is not operating its services to London and Paris because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent airspace restrictions.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
FAA Flight Standards Service executive director David Boulter will take the agency’s top civil-service safety job on an interim basis when current acting associate administrator for Aviation Safety Chris Rocheleau leaves government service at the end of May.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Ben Goldstein
JetBlue Airways may have been a “breath of fresh air” when it launched two decades ago, but it may need a new niche to stay competitive.
Airlines & Lessors

By Garrett Reim
Boom Supersonic has signed a 10-year agreement for carbon dioxide removal via Climeworks direct air capture technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Latvian flag-carrier airBaltic plans to wet-lease a Boeing 737-900ER from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), at the same time the company is wet-leasing some of its own fleet of Airbus A220s to other airlines.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
U.S. airlines are unified in recognizing the need to get more pilot candidates in the pipeline but are grappling with training-process bottlenecks as they work to grow their near-term pool of qualified line pilots.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
South African Airways (SAA) plans to instate another CEO, following the departure of the position’s interim holder.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Romanian carrier Tarom has received the go-ahead for a €1.9 million ($2 million) capital injection to compensate for losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Aaron Karp
While airlines are reporting a strong demand environment going into the northern hemisphere summer, the full restoration of global airline networks is likely years away, IATA DG Willie Walsh told Aviation Week Network editors.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
VietJet achieved robust profit growth in the 2022 first quarter, thanks to the airline’s restored domestic flights and the start of more international services.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Luxembourg startup FlyLux Airlines is planning to become active in wet-lease, charter and cargo flying, operating Airbus A320neo-family aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Dublin-based lessor Avolon said it had recognized an impairment of $304 million against its exposure to the Russian market during the first quarter, reducing the carrying value of its 10 owned aircraft in the country to zero.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Icelandic lessor Icelease and U.S. private-investment firm Corrum Capital Management have secured $40 million in funding to acquire three Boeing 737-800s for cargo conversion.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Plans to establish North America’s first mega-ULCC remain in place after Spirit Airlines rejected a revised takeover bid from JetBlue Airways in favor of an earlier offer from Frontier Airlines.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is to cooperate with Kawasaki Heavy Industries on the development of core technologies for hydrogen-powered commercial aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Customer concessions for delayed 737 MAXs or 787s aside, Boeing did not have to finance the delivery of any of its airliners in 2021, the second year in a row that third-parties have backed all aircraft receipts, according to Boeing Capital executives.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Supporting more flights, a long-idled fleet, and rising new-aircraft production rates could be too much for the commercial supply chain to handle.
Supply Chain

By Adrian Schofield
Australian carrier Rex has reached an agreement to become Delta Air Lines’ new partner in the Australian market.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Long-haul LCC French bee plans to launch a Paris-Miami service in December 2022, after taking delivery of its sixth Airbus A350 aircraft in winter 2022.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Qantas has confirmed a much-delayed order for the Airbus A350-1000s it will use for its Project Sunrise ultra-long-range flights; it has also finalized orders for Airbus narrowbodies to replace its domestic fleet.
Airlines & Lessors