The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has awarded Rolls-Royce certification for its higher efficiency and thrust Package C variant of the Trent 1000 engine, which will power the stretched -9 version of the Boeing 787.
Etihad Airways has reportedly increased its shareholding in Virgin Australia by at least 1.4%, taking its holding to a minimum of 12%, ATW understands.
Airberlin, which set a €200 million ($265.1 million) cost-cutting goal for 2013, is 80% there, CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told ATW on the sidelines of the International Symposium of the Austrian Aviation Association in Vienna.
The Arbitration Court of the Dagestan Republic has declared the bankruptcy of Dagestan Airlines, more than a year after Russian authorities withdrew the Makhachkala-based carrier’s air operator’s certificate at the end of 2011.
Air Namibia will lease two new Airbus A330-200s from US lessor Intrepid Aviation, replacing two Airbus A340s, which are due to leave its fleet in October.
Independent holiday charter Small Planet Airlines has signed lease agreements with Aircastle and CIT Aerospace to lease three A320-220s as it continues its fleet renewal program.
Ethiopian Airlines has outlined plans to quadruple its Ethiopian Aviation Academy annual student intake by 2025 as part of its Vision 2025 strategic plan.
Pratt & Whitney has signed an exclusive eight-year maintenance services agreement with Transaero Airlines to provide engine overhauls on 11 PW4000-112s.
AAR has entered into a general terms agreement with Liebherr-Aerospace to provide landing-gear maintenance, repair and overhaul services for Embraer E-170s, E-175s, E-190s and E-195s.
The Carlyle Group’s portfolio company Dynamic Precision Group will acquire eight aerospace component-fabrication and machining facilities from Unison Engine Components, a subsidiary of GE Aviation.
JetBlue Airways COO Rob Maruster said FAA has a “credibility” problem regarding the implementation of the satellite-based NextGen air traffic control (ATC) system, leading to a loss of confidence among US airlines that worry expensive investments in NextGen equipment won’t “pay off.”
Bombardier Aerospace has been conducting high-speed taxi testing with its new CSeries aircraft in preparation for an anticipated first flight in the next few days.
When Alex de Gunten took over as executive director of the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA) 10 years ago, Latin America “was seen as an appendix of the world from an aviation perspective."
Air Malta has more than halved its losses for the first quarter of FY2013/14, narrowing a deficit of €10.6 million ($14 million) for the year-ago period to €4.9 million for the April-June period this year.
Aeroflot has created a subsidiary named Taiga Airline, which was created by merging two Russian Far Eastern airlines, Vladivostok Avia and SAT Airlines.
Spring Airlines has applied to launch a low-cost carrier (LCC) in Japan, becoming the first Chinese carrier to set up a joint venture (JV) outside China.
Hard on the heels of its memorandum of understanding (MOU) to help modernize China’s air traffic management (ATM) system, Airbus has signed another MOU to extend its cooperation in aviation safety with the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for a further five years.
Lithuanian start-up Air Lituanica has taken delivery of an Embraer E-175 from Embraer subsidiary ECC Leasing, marking the second addition to its fledgling fleet.
