Mitsubishi Aircraft will conduct demonstration flights of its MRJ regional jet at the Farnborough Air Show in July, the company said, reiterating first delivery is on track for mid-2020.
US House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Democrats are leaning on FAA to review how it oversees airlines—and low-cost carriers in particular—and brief lawmakers as soon as possible.
Santiago-based LATAM has added a fifth leased aircraft—a Boeing 747-400—to fill in for grounded 787s as they are taken out of service for newly mandated Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 inspections.
FAA will issue an airworthiness directive (AD) in the next two weeks requiring inspections of certain CFM56-7B turbofan engines, the US agency announced one day after the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 engine failure.
JetBlue Airways flight attendants voted to join the Transport Workers Union (TWU) April 17, paving the way for negotiations to secure the first contract for the New York-based carrier’s 5,000 flight attendants.
Airlines could face claims for compensation over flight delays and cancellations after the European Union Court of Justice ruled a “wildcat strike,” or spontaneous industrial action, did not exempt an airline from paying out compensation claims.
Grupo Aeromexico posted an MXP722 million ($39.7 million) net loss for the 2018 first quarter, deepened from an MXP328 million net loss in 1Q 2017, as a result of a 7.8% appreciation in the MXP-US dollar exchange rate as well as a 14.5% increase in peso-dominated fuel prices.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) have levied $375,000 in fines on US LCC Allegiant Air and Hawaiian Airlines, citing both airlines for violating airline consumer protection rules.
For some years now, pundits have argued that airline passengers will turn to their own electronic devices for IFE rather and that the traditional seatback screens are about to die out.
Ireland’s Shannon Airport (SNN) is targeting LCCs that operate or plan to operate Airbus A321LR and Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to use the airport for transatlantic flights to the US and Canada, according to a top airport official.
Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines reported a 2017 net profit of CNY1.3 billion ($200 million), up 6.1% from CNY1.2 billion in 2016 because of robust market demand growth and yuan appreciation.
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) has confirmed that almost half of its fleet of 64 Boeing 787s will be affected by new restrictions imposed by regulators on certain Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engines.
Scandinavian leisure carrier Primera Air received its first Airbus A321neo aircraft on April 16 and plans to begin using it soon on services from the UK to New York, Boston and Toronto, the airline said.
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in the left engine of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport on April 17 after the pilots initially reported an engine fire, then clarified that there was no fire but that engine parts were missing.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport on April 17 after an apparent engine failure that caused one fatality.
European air traffic management organization Eurocontrol signed a 10-year, €50 million ($62 million) contract with BT Global Services to provide an upgraded network for air traffic management (ATM) communications across 47 countries.
