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By Alan Dron
Turkish Airlines has stepped up its sustainability efforts with the first operational flight of an A321 utilizing a range of environment-friendly measures.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Virgin Australia has boosted its fleet growth plans by increasing its commitments for Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
Africa has become important for the Lufthansa Group’s further development and Brussels Airlines will play a leading role.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is seeing results from its partnership with Google Cloud that supports its flight operations, utilizing the technology provider’s artificial intelligence software to improve decision making.
Connected Aerospace

By Chen Chuanren
Sporadic city-wide lockdowns and closed borders are weighing heavily on Chinese carriers’ balance sheets.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Southwest Airlines has converted 40 firm orders for the Boeing 737-7 to the slightly larger 737-8, as Boeing’s timeline for certifying the smallest MAX family variant continues to slip.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Opposing flight-control inputs and a lack of overall coordination may explain an Air France Boeing 777-300ER flight crew’s challenges that led to a go-around amid concern that the aircraft’s flight-control system was malfunctioning, an update from French air accident bureau BEA suggests.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
Mexican ULCC Volaris is hopeful the FAA will restore Mexico’s safety rating by year-end as the next phase of the U.S. regulator’s assessment for the country starts in May.
Airlines & Lessors

Aviation Week Network staff
Russia’s largest carrier on international routes Aeroflot has temporarily suspended its membership in the SkyTeam alliance.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
Embraer reaffirmed its full-year revenue and delivery targets for 2022 despite a sharp deceleration in commercial and executive jet deliveries in the first quarter (Q1).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
Despite the Russia-Ukraine war and volatility in the stock market, business aircraft activity at Textron Aviation has remained strong during the first quarter of 2022, company officials say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
EasyJet is continuing to lend its support to efforts to develop technology for zero-emission commercial aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Malaysian carrier Firefly has relaunched its narrowbody jet operation, giving its parent Malaysia Airlines Group a dual-model approach for jet services.
Airlines & Lessors

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Beyond developing and producing an air vehicle that meets civil aviation authority certification standards, advanced air mobility companies also must certify how the aircraft will be serviced and maintained, and their flight operations also must be certified.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Aircraft Industries, the manufacturer of the Let family of turboprop regional aircraft, is now back in Czech hands after being acquired from its Russian owners.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is seeing enough signs of demand recovery to predict that it will return to profitability in fiscal 2022, which ends March 31, 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
China’s busiest airport Guangzhou Baiyun has canceled more than 1,000 flights after three airport staff tested positive for COVID-19 on the evening of April 27.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
Boeing’s first-quarter 2022 financial results were another gusher of red ink, with the beset U.S. aerospace and defense OEM reporting new charges and negative results over most of its operations, and the company leaving investors and analysts with reasonable doubt over whether it can achieve net-positive cash flow this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Boeing has taken the decision of shifting its first 777-9 deliveries into 2025 from the end of 2023 and is pausing production of additional airframes through 2023 in an effort to avoid building up an even larger inventory.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The FAA will host a two-day meeting with a group of U.S. airlines in early May to discuss ways to increase the efficiency of busy airspace in Florida, following a spate of operational meltdowns there affecting JetBlue Airways, Spirit Airlines and others.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Another delay in the 777X program for first deliveries to occur in 2025 is a good indication of the depth and breadth of issues that Boeing Commercial Aircraft as a company is facing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
British Airways (BA) appears to be continuing to feel the operational pinch of COVID-19 absences, with further flight capacity being removed from the carrier’s planned June schedules.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The push to establish urban air mobility (UAM) networks in Europe took a step forward April 27 with the signing of an MOU between Airbus and Italian flag-carrier ITA Airways to collaborate on UAM in Italy.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Oneworld carrier Finnair plans to outsource seven aircraft, sell another four plus other surplus aircraft, start accessing a €400 million ($427 million) government loan, and roll out a further €60 million in cost savings—all in an effort to mitigate the ongoing impact of the Ukraine-Russia war.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Air India has applied to buy out the remaining minority share in AirAsia India, which would give the Tata Group full control over the LCC subsidiary.
Airlines & Lessors