Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA), Dubai Air Navigation Services (Dans) and Emirates Aviation University (EAU) have pencilled a long term strategic partnership to train and developing human resources and provide full-fledged technical academic programmes for aviation students and professionals.
Gulf Air has announced a partnership between the airline's Falconflyer Loyalty Programme and Europcar, the European leader in vehicle rental services and a major mobility player.
Negotiations over the shape of a global market-based measures (MBM) system to address aviation carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are at a critical stage at ICAO, according to IATA.
Air Canada president and CEO Calin Rovinescu said the Montreal-based airline is developing a comprehensive strategy to counter potential cyberattacks, and encouraged other airlines to take a similar approach.
Finnair president and CEO Pekka Vauramo continues to lobby for ownership restrictions to be removed so that his company can participate in European airline consolidation.
Ireland-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Ryanair is to close its Oslo Rygge base on Oct. 29 and reduce its Norwegian traffic by 50% after the Norwegian government confirmed the introduction of an air passenger tax.
Following reports that EgyptAir flight MS804’s recorders may have been detected, Airbus president and CEO Fabrice Brégier urged caution, saying, “Only the facts count.”
European carriers are bracing for further disruption, as France’s air traffic controllers plan another walkout which threatens to be the worst of 2016.
A French naval vessel involved in the search for EgyptAir flight MS804 has received signals “assumed to be from one of the data recorders,” Egyptian authorities said.
Japanese major All Nippon Airways (ANA) has finalized its agreement to take an 8.8% stake in Vietnamese flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, worth VND2.43 trillion ($109 million).
The rate of change in scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent employment by airline group, displayed as year-over-year percentage growth or losses. Differential changes for each of the last 13 months are shown.
US Airlines ranked by complaints per 100,000 passengers, lowest to highest, for the first three months of 2016; contrasted with complaint rankings from the previous year.
Ranked by involuntary denied-boardings per 10,000 passengers, lowest to highest. Source: US DOT Aviation Consumer Protection Division Air Travel Consumer Report.
A much-needed new terminal at Kuwait International Airport was given the go-ahead May 29 when the Gulf nation’s Ministry of Public Works signed a KD1.3 billion ($4.3 billion) contract with Limak Construction.
The Airbus A320neo powered by CFM International CFM LEAP-1A engines has received joint EASA/FAA certification, Airbus president & CEO Fabrice Brégier announced May 31.
Airbus COO, customers, John Leahy is not concerned about considerations that Boeing reportedly is giving to stretch the 737 MAX further using higher-thrust CFM International LEAP-1A engines that have been developed for the Airbus A320neo.
"We are all involved in an arms race," security futurist and risk consultant Simon Moores, MD of Zentelligence (Research), told an audience at the SITA Air Transport IT Summit in Barcelona.
Putting the engine developed for the Airbus A320neo on to the Boeing 737 MAX would not be easy, Airbus executives said this week, although they acknowledged they were aware of rumors that this was being considered in the US.
Bahraini national carrier Gulf Air said May 27 that one of its flights made a diversionary landing in India after passengers and crew sustained injures when the aircraft hit turbulence.
