Ethiopia's Civil Aviation Authority has launched a transformation program to develop its regulatory competence to keep pace with Ethiopian Airlines’ success.
Malaysia Airlines says poor reliability of rotables and CFM56 engines coupled with the departure of engineering talent led to the spate of service disruptions.
Air Cairo is planning steady expansion over the rest of the decade, but it appears its small sub-fleet of Embraer 190s will be consigned to a modest role In the process.
Weather is an ongoing challenge for airlines, and recent disruptions have spurred technological upgrades and collaboration to improve delay mitigation.
WestJet appears to have secured deals for all nine 737-8 narrowbodies operated by rival Lynx Air when it ceased operations and went out of business in February.
Malaysia Airlines has found a defect in high-pressure fuel hoses on an Airbus A350-900, an aircraft variant not covered by an EASA Emergency AD requiring checks of these components.
During the capacity drawdown, Malaysia Airlines has been cycling aircraft through increased maintenance checks, which has meant about 15 aircraft out of service at once compared to seven before the cuts.
Kenya Airways says the grounding of two of its Boeing 787-8s powered by GE Aerospace GEnx-1B 70/75s has led to delays and disruptions throughout its network.
