Testing waived for “extremely remote” failures

Large U.S. carriers see positive signs in mergers, capacity restraint

As if Indian airlines did not have enough problems already, now they seem to have organized themselves into a circular firing squad. Bleeding red ink, India's private carriers are engaged with debt-ridden Air India in a fierce price war.

The U.S. will be facing yet another fire season with a dwindling number of aging airtankers.

Rebounding quickly from the 2008-09 recession, passenger travel fed a big appetite for new aircraft. By 2010 suppliers were seeing good times ahead as Boeing planned four years of steadily increasing production rates.

Root cause and added containment question are key priorities

We've delved into our archives to retrieve a June 11, 1979 report on the grounding of the DC-10 fleet following the May 25 crash of an American Airlines DC-10 shortly after takeoff from Chicago O' Hare airport. That was the last time the FAA grounded a fleet until last month's grounding of the Boeing 787 fleet.

The freighter conversion business begins 2013 with a clear division: The market for narrowbody conversions is dynamic and growing, while the market for widebody aircraft has stagnated. The market's current status is belied by the statistics for 2012, when conversions were almost evenly split between the aircraft types. The 64 conversions included 28 widebody and 33 narrowbody aircraft, with the other three on turboprops, the Aviation Week Fleets database shows.