Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Testimony and documents show how management pressure and the lack of detailed processes combined to cause the near-catastrophe on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Boeing is developing changes to ensure 737 door plugs cannot be mistakenly left unsecured and plans to roll out retrofit kits once the new design is certified.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron, Kurt Hofmann, Helen Massy-Beresford
Airlines are preparing for further disruption to their Middle East schedules amid growing fears of an attack by Iran on Israel.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Airlines have canceled flights into Dhaka, Bangladesh, after the capital's airport was forced to close after civil unrest that toppled the country's government.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Go First has remained in limbo since it halted operations in May 2023.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford, David Casey
The multinational airline group cited regulatory challenges as it announced it was abandoning its plan to acquire Air Europa.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The NTSB’s planned two-day hearing on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 will provide a rare and extensive look into Boeing’s commercial aircraft manufacturing process
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
For an airline group that came into being through consolidation, the failure of IAG's latest planned deal to take over Air Europa must be a big disappointment.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European airlines including Lufthansa and easyJet have expressed doubts about plans for contrail monitoring and reporting.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
For years, the FAA has faced heated criticism from the drone industry that it was moving too slowly on authorizing commercial drone operations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
French airlines operating to French overseas territories in the Caribbean await the outcome of a legal process challenging higher fuel costs imposed there.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
After dropping its proposed acquisition of Air Europa, IAG's CEO still sees benefits of consolidation and retains an interest in buying TAP Air Portugal.
Airlines & Lessors

By Christine Boynton
The carrier is facing a U.S. Transportation Department investigation into its lengthy recovery from a global IT-system failure.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
“This model ... did what it was meant to do, which is it proved the aerodynamics of the nose activating take-off gear,” says JetZero CEO Tom O’Leary.
Emerging Technologies

By Bill Carey
Transport Canada issued an emergency airworthiness directive requiring detailed visual inspections of Airbus A220-100/300 main landing gear.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Kurt Hofmann, Helen Massy-Beresford
Some European airlines are suspending flights or extending existing suspensions amid rising tensions between Israel and Iran.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
International Airlines Group (IAG) is abandoning its plan to take over Spanish airline Air Europa, which it hoped would help it boost its Madrid hub.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Prior to the grounding, Arik Air was the fourth-largest provider of domestic capacity in Nigeria with a 7.6% share of the market.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The European Commission has placed what ACI Europe describes as “severe restrictions” on the use of the latest generation cabin baggage scanners.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Boeing is anticipating certification of all three in-development aircraft by the end of 2025 and expressing confidence in near-term production-ramp estimates.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
The FAA has authorized startups Wing and Zipline to conduct beyond-visual-line-of-sight drone deliveries in shared airspace over Dallas-Fort Worth.
Advanced Air Mobility Departments

Aviation Week Network Staff
Moscow has finally given the green light to aircraft wet leasing.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
The trend toward airline privatization has been gathering momentum in the South Asia region since the pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

Gulf Air has signed a Collective Labour Agreement with the Gulf Air Pilots Trade Union (GAPTU).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christine Boynton
Hawaiian and Alaska first announced an agreement to merge on Dec. 3, 2023, retaining both brands, with Hawaiian surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of Alaska.
Airlines & Lessors