BAE Systems Regional Aircraft received European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Form 1 certification for an aircraft part on BAe 146s made using innovative new 3D printing, or so-called additive manufacture technology.
Bahrain-based Aero Gulf Group’s Sola Engine Center in Norway—which was purchased from Pratt & Whitney in late 2013—is ready to overhaul CFM56s after reorganizing and streamlining the new investment.
Etihad Airways is expected to announce a new US codeshare agreement this week, marking its third North American partnership after Air Canada and American Airlines.
Bombardier Aerospace will lay off 1,700 employees in a bid to contain costs after stretching out CSeries development by at least 12 months and seeing business and commercial aircraft orders decline in 2013.
Airbus is aiming to wrap up a new contract with its Chinese final assembly line (FAL) partners this year, potentially extending its remit to A320neos, and is progressing toward the operational opening of its new US facility in Mobile, Ala.
Darwin Airline, which just adopted new branding as Etihad Regional, is aiming to return to profitability in 2014 aided by its new 33.3% shareholder Etihad Airways.
The Air Traffic Controllers European Unions Coordination (ATCEUC)—which originally planned an Action Day Oct. 10, 2013, and then called it off—has rekindled plans to strike Jan. 29 to protest the European Commission’s (EC) SES2+ package aimed at speeding implementation of the Single European Sky (SES).
Italian National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) grounded Small Planet Airlines Italia Jan. 20 due to its fragile financial situation, although its Lithuanian franchise parent Small Planet Airlines is still operating normally.
London’s Heathrow Airport will consult the local community on proposals for an additional runway at the airport as shortlisted by the government’s Airports Commission.
Air China parent China National Aviation Holding Co. (CNAH) has named Cai Jianjiang as its new GM, succeeding Wang Changshun, who has been appointed as Vice Minister of China’s Transport Ministry.
Delta Air Lines reported a 2013 net profit of $10.54 billion, a significant increase over net income of $1.01 billion in 2012, as revenue rose 3% year-over-year to $37.77 billion.
GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) announced Monday an order for 40 Boeing 737s made up of 20 MAX 8s and 20 737-800s. The order, which was accounted for in Boeing’s 2013 net orders and attributed to an unidentified customer, is valued at $3.9 billion at list prices.
Qatar Airways will take one of the two new licenses being granted by the Saudi Arabian civil aviation regulator, GACA, to create a regional carrier operating domestic services in the country.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has conducted a biofuel demonstration flight as a step toward the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The two pilots of the Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 that landed at the wrong airport Jan. 12 in Missouri told National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators they flew a “visual approach into what they believed to be Branson Airport” and that they “did not realize they were at the wrong airport until they had landed.”
Singapore Airlines and Air New Zealand will join forces in a new alliance that will see the return of the New Zealand carrier to Singapore after an absence of almost eight years.
United Parcel Service (UPS) has issued a profit warning, saying it anticipates full-year 2013 earnings to be below expectations owing mostly to difficulties the company had around the Christmas holiday.
