Bombardier has replaced its head of marketing for commercial aircraft, including the slow-selling and still-grounded CSeries airliner, as it continues a corporate restructuring and downsizing.
Ryanair has hired John Hurley as chief technology officer as the Irish budget carrier continues with its senior management revamp and push to step up its digital game.
The latest round of route announcements by Japan’s major airlines includes the notable return of a domestic trunk service that was previously squeezed out by competition from high-speed rail.
Malaysia-based AirAsia X reported a second-quarter net loss of MYR128.9 million ($40.9 million), widened from the MYR32.3 million net loss reported for the year-ago period.
Finnair CEO Pekka Vauramo has shrugged off concerns raised by Flybe about the two airlines’ loss-making joint venture (JV), saying it is “business as usual” at Flybe Finland.
London’s Heathrow and Gatwick airports have expressed support for the proposed creation of a permanent infrastructure authority to address the UK’s long-term strategic infrastructure requirements, including airport capacity.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will add five new routes this fall to Florida, continuing its strategy of connecting smaller US cities with popular vacation destinations.
Germany’s Zweibrücken Airport, which declared insolvency at the end of July, is expected to continue operations through Nov. 2, according to insolvency administrator Jan Markus Plathner.
Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation has posted a $163 million net profit for the first six months of 2014 and is on track to hit a full-year delivery record.
Total combined international premium and economy passenger traffic grew 3.7% in the first half, identical to 2013’s first-half growth rate, according to IATA’s June Premium Traffic Monitor.
FAA has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) requiring repetitive ultrasonic inspections of low-pressure (LP) compressor blades with more than 2,500 flight cycles since last inspection on Rolls-Royce RB211 Trent 768-60s, 772-60s and 772B-60s.
Norwegian Air International (NAI), the long-haul arm of low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian Air Shuttle, claimed European Commission support Tuesday in its efforts to gain US approval to fly between Europe and the US.
While Singapore-based low-cost carrier Scoot will use Boeing 787 deliveries to grow its fleet next year, the initial deliveries will be focused more on fleet replacement than expansion, CEO Campbell Wilson said.
Independent aviation safety body Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is backing the use of deployable flight data recorders (FDRs), or triggered flight data transmission, as the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continues.
Lufthansa said it plans to start operations of a new long-haul low-cost carrier (LCC) for intercontinental and European services in fall 2015, most likely from Munich and Düsseldorf or Cologne.
FAA has issued a new notice to airmen (NOTAM) prohibiting US air carriers from flying in the Damascus Flight Information Region, which includes all of Syria. FAA cited the “ongoing armed conflict and volatile security environment in Syria,” which “poses a serious potential threat to civil aviation.”
