Patrick de Castelbajac has been appointed CEO of ATR, taking over from Filippo Bagnato, whose four-year mandate, according to ATR statutes, expired at the end of May 2014. De Castelbajac joins ATR from the commercial direction of Airbus where he was head of contracts negotiations.
Bombardier has grounded the CSeries flight test program while it investigates an engine failure that occurred May 29 on flight test aircraft FTV1 during ground testing.
Okinawa-based Japan Transocean Air (JTA), a member of JAL Group, has finalized an order for 12 Boeing 737-800s in an order valued at $1.1 billion at list prices.
The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved a proposal by air navigation services provider NATS to reclassify the airspace around London Heathrow Airport from Class A to Class D.
Auckland Airport, Airways New Zealand and the Board of Airline Representatives New Zealand (BARNZ) have released a draft report on the SMART Approaches flight path trial at Auckland Airport for public feedback.
Australia’s Darwin-headquartered Vincent Aviation—which operates a fleet of five Beechcraft 1900s, four SAAB 340s and one BAE 146-200 jet—has gone into receivership.
Russia’s UTair subsidiary, UTair Express, has unveiled the livery on its first of six Sukhoi Superjet 100LR (SSJ100LR) aircraft, ahead of its official delivery date in June.
Canada’s FLYHT Aerospace Solutions has signed a contract with an unspecified Nigerian airline for the sale and delivery of its Automated Flight Information Reporting System (AFIRS) 220 on five Boeing 737 aircraft.
In March, US scheduled passenger airlines employed 383,610 full-time workers, up 0.8% year-over-year, according to figures from the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) said the underwater search area in the southern Indian Ocean where it has been focusing since detecting acoustic signals in early April can “now be discounted as the final resting place of [Malaysia Airlines] MH370.”
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is attempting to expand in a passenger-friendly way despite being constrained by the limitation of having only two runways.
United Parcel Service (UPS) has opened a much larger processing facility at its Taipei air cargo hub located at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE).
UK-based Odyssey Airlines, which plans to start all-business class services from London City Airport to New York in 2016, has widened its efforts to attract investor funding.
Global premium air travel demand weakened in March, growing 1.9% year-over-year, down from February’s 4.1% increase, according to IATA’s March Premium Traffic Monitor.
