Aviation Corp. of China (AVIC) subsidiary Xi’an Aircraft International Corp.’s MA600 freighter formally entered the market Tuesday following the awarding of its type certificate by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).
Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has confirmed reports it has summoned Boeing management representatives to Oslo later this week to address reliability issues that have dogged the carrier’s two new Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
Las Vegas-based low-cost carrier Allegiant Air expects to need at least another week before its flight schedule is disruption-free and its entire MD-80 fleet is available as it works to get the model’s evacuation slides in compliance with manufacturer recommendations.
Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways plan to operate a “harmonized schedule between New York JFK and London Heathrow” starting March 30, 2014, after receiving final antitrust clearance from the US government to launch a transatlantic joint venture (JV).
Under the auspices of its International Aviation Safety Assessments (IASA) program, FAA has upgraded Ukraine’s safety rating to Category 1 from Category 2.
FAA administrator Michael Huerta warned that the ongoing “fiscal uncertainty” surrounding the US government is “very damaging” to FAA’s long-term planning capability, and in particular could hurt the agency’s effort to modernize air traffic control (ATC).
Las Vegas-based low-cost carrier Allegiant Air announced today it will immediately pull nearly half its fleet out of service to re-inspect the emergency slides on its MD-80 aircraft.
The US Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways is based on faulty reasoning, the head of IATA told the Wings Club in New York Thursday.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have called for air passenger rights to be tightened up to stop airlines from exploiting an “extraordinary circumstances” clause to avoid paying them compensation for delays or denied boarding.
French leisure airline Transavia France has signed a contract with Toulouse-based software solutions specialist Open Airlines in a bid to reduce fuel burn.
As a follow-up to the July 12 fire in a parked and unoccupied Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787-8 at London Heathrow Airport, FAA on Wednesday issued a final rule and airworthiness directive (AD) for US airlines to inspect 3,832 Honeywell emergency locator transmitters (ELTs) installed on US aircraft.
ACI Europe DG Olivier Jankovec is confident European airports will be ready for a partial relaxation of restrictions on carry-on liquids by January 2014.
IATA said Wednesday it has high expectations for the decisions that states will make at the ICAO 38th Assembly in Montreal next week and that climate change will be at the top of the agenda.
The Russian government has submitted a bill to its lower legislative house, State Duma, that would allow foreigners to stay in the country without a visa for 72 hours if they transfer by air carrier.
The European Parliament has called for a cap on the use of traditional or so-called “first generation” biofuels (produced from food and energy crops) and a speedy switchover to new advanced biofuels sourced from seaweed or certain types of waste,
US airlines (passenger and cargo) collectively employed 484,877 full-time workers in July, slipping 1.8% from July 2012, according to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Solena Fuels hopes to enter negotiations with Qantas after completing a joint study showing the feasibility of building a waste-to-biofuel facility in Sydney.
Airlines for America (A4A) VP-environmental affairs Nancy Young said Thursday she was confident that significant progress will be made at the upcoming ICAO Assembly toward achieving a single, global market-based measures agreement for airlines.
