An 8.8% year-over-year (YOY) rise in November global air freight traffic continued the momentum toward making 2017 the best year for the air cargo sector since 2010, according to IATA’s November Air Freight Market Analysis, released Jan 10.
Kenya Airways will launch daily Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta-New York JFK services on Oct. 28, becoming the first airline to offer a nonstop flight between East Africa and the US.
Vietnam Airlines (VNA) is considering nonstop services to the US west coast, but must wait for ultra-long range aircraft to become available for nonstop transpacific flights from Vietnam.
The FAA’s national drone registry has surpassed 1 million recreational and commercial small unmanned aircraft users, US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said.
Marine survey firm Ocean Infinity said it has received a contract from the government of Malaysia to resume searching for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 that disappeared in March 2014.
Fast-expanding BOC Aviation took delivery of 74 aircraft in 2017 and added a further 48 to a pipeline of future acquisitions stretching to 2021, MD and CEO Robert Martin said in an operational update.
Former US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will lead an independent investigation of the disruptions at New York JFK following a winter storm last week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced.
Delta Air Lines believes it can overcome a 30% year-over-year (YOY) increase in fuel prices by growing revenue and controlling non-fuel costs in 2018, executives said.
Austria-based airberlin subsidiary NIKI CEO Oliver Lackmann confirmed he will step down by the end of February as the deal with International Airlines Group (IAG) hits a snag.
Boeing HorizonX, which the manufacturer set up to pursue potentially disruptive ideas inside as well as outside the company, has flown a prototype electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) unmanned cargo aircraft.
LCC Norwegian has secured the slots it needs to launch 4X-weekly Amsterdam-New York flights, using remedies from a transatlantic joint venture (JV) between four SkyTeam member airlines.
The AirAsia Group plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) for shares in its Indian joint venture, part of the parent group’s efforts to seek new investors and monetize its holdings in various units.
Airbus plans to ramp up A320 family production rates at its Final Assembly Line Asia (FALA) in Tianjin, China beginning in 2019, according to a framework agreement signed by Airbus and its Chinese partners Jan. 9.
