JetBlue Airways president and CEO Robin Hayes lamented the “protectionist tendencies” of the airline industry’s largest players, which he said “has only become more pronounced as carriers have become larger and gained more market power.”
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) decided to return its entire fleet of 28 Airbus A220s to home base to make engine checks following another engine-related diversion on Oct. 15.
A task force of global civil aviation regulators found gaps in the FAA’s certification process that contributed to insufficient reviews of the Boeing 737 MAX flight control system, and made recommendations aimed at ensuring the aircraft’s airworthiness and improving the agency’s product-approval requirements.
Sustainable energy company Velocys said it will be able to produce “negative-emissions” fuels, after striking a deal to capture and store the carbon dioxide that will be generated by the biomass-to-fuel plant it is planning to build in Mississippi.
Biofuel supplier SkyNRG has introduced a program enabling corporations to reduce emissions from their business air travel by contributing to development of a production facility for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to be built in the Netherlands.
A lawsuit filed by the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) escalates the union’s already critical public views of Boeing and the 737 MAX, accusing the manufacturer of deliberately misrepresenting and withholding “safety critical” details about the new model for years.
Citing a need for 10,000 new pilots in the next decade, United Airlines announced a new “Aviate” pilot recruitment program that it said offers candidates the quickest progression from college to first officer of any major airline.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is not consistently involving airlines when it reviews security directives at foreign airports, and its process for checking them is not transparent, a report from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found.
Five people were reported killed and three injured when a Ukraine Air Alliance Antonov An-12 freighter crashed Oct. 4 in the Sokilnyky Village, near Lviv, Ukraine.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) on Oct. 3 tentatively approved an agreement for Hawaiian Airlines and Japan Airlines (JAL) to operate a joint venture (JV) between Hawaii and Japan, although it declined to grant the pair anti-trust immunity (ATI).
Most US airlines would see minimal near-term fallout from tariffs on Airbus deliveries, although New York-based JetBlue Airways and Florida-based Spirit Airlines could face notable challenges offsetting added costs, a Bernstein analysis has concluded.
Irish LCC Ryanair’s German pilots have voted in favor of a four-year collective labor agreement (CLA) to cover all Ryanair’s directly employed pilots in Germany until March 2023.
A project to convert the nine-passenger Britten-Norman Islander to hybrid-electric propulsion for short-haul flights has kicked off in the UK. Project Fresson is led by Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS), which plans to obtain and market a supplemental type certificate (STC) for the conversion.
Detecting rogue drones on or near airport property should be a shared responsibility of airports and federal governments, a high-level industry group focused on the threat of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has concluded.
The European Commission and Airbus doubled down on calls for the US and Boeing to negotiate an end to the 15-year-old airliner subsidy dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) after a WTO arbitrator green-lighted the US to collect up to $7.5 billion in punitive tariffs on European imports.
Convincing more women to pursue careers as pilots would help ease a supply crunch that could soon threaten even the largest airlines in the US, two pilot-workforce experts said.
Brazil’s National Congress on Sept. 27 failed to overturn President Jair Bolsonaro’s veto of a provision that would have allowed passengers on domestic flights to check in one piece of luggage free of charge.
Air France has received the go-ahead from Transavia pilots, who are members of the SNPL France ALPA union, for an expansion plan that is part of the wider Air France-KLM Group’s bid to expand and boost profitability.
