Aviation Daily

Bombardier Aviation and members of Unifor’s Local 112 and 673, on strike since July 27, have reached a tentative labor agreement with the company.

The airline’s first routes include international service between Montreal and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, and domestic service between Montreal and Vancouver.

Italia Trasporto Aereo (ITA), the successor to Italian flag-carrier Alitalia, has taken another step closer to its launch with the company’s shareholders approving a capital increase of €700 million ($831 million) July 29.

There is skepticism in the aerospace supply chain about Airbus’ plans to massively expand single-aisle production over the coming years.

GOL expects a solid uptick in business demand in the 2022 first quarter (Q1) and plans to tailor its network to capitalize on the rebound.

International Airlines Group (IAG) continues to await a revival in the crucial transatlantic market to help restore its fortunes.

New guidance from the FAA and EASA targets any operator with aircraft that have lavatory fire extinguishing bottles.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has managed to significantly reduce its losses in its latest quarterly results, keeping it on track to return to profit for the current fiscal year.

Fiji Airways has reached an agreement to return two of its Airbus A330s to lessors earlier than planned.

The program still faces many run-of-the-mill manufacturing challenges as well as foreign trade hurdles.

“Thanks to the easing of travel restrictions in several key regions, the second quarter of 2021 saw the first signs of the long-awaited recovery,” Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith said July 30.

At least 12 significant cyber security incidents affecting the aerospace industry have been made public since the start of the year.

U.S. House lawmakers took steps on July 29 to advance legislation that would ban so-called flag of convenience carriers from operating in the U.S.

The strike affects about 1,500 Bombardier workers and 700 De Havilland workers at the facility where Bombardier Global series aircraft and De Havilland Dash 8 turboprops are built.

Allegiant Air has finalized an agreement with Air Lease Corporation (ALC) for 10 Airbus A320-200s, which brings the number of aircraft the Las Vegas-based ULCC has added during the COVID-19 pandemic to 24.

Spirit Airlines is planning to resume its historical double-digit capacity growth beginning in the 2021 third quarter (Q3), propelled by resurgent demand for domestic and near-afield international travel.

Research laboratories in Europe have joined forces to improve the technology readiness level (TRL) for sensors embedded in fan blades, aiming at making them useful during the engine’s entire lifecycle, from manufacturing to service and dismantling.

Safran has reported solid financial results, showing a negative impact from the COVID-19 crisis but underlining intrinsic strengths in the company’s activity against the current backdrop.

The German leisure airline expects the first A330neo to join its fleet in the fall of 2022 and the replacement of its entire widebody to be completed by mid-2024.

TUIfly Germany has launched Boeing 737 MAX operations, becoming the final carrier within the TUI Group to operate the type.

The carriers hope the proposed partnership will allow them to grow “aggressively and profitably” across Latin America as passenger demand continues to recover.

The risk of fresh outbreaks and new coronavirus variants in key markets is denting Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) confidence of a smooth recovery.

MRO provider HAECO Xiamen has completed its first Boeing 737-800SF freighter conversion, handing over the aircraft to lessor BlackRock Aviation Holdings III LP.

The company, which is also currently pursuing Part 23 type certification of the S4 eVTOL aircraft as well as production certification of the assembly line which will manufacture it, is targeting air carrier approval in 2022.

Airbus is insisting that its planned production rate increases are strongly supported by customer demand and needs more buy-in from a supply chain reluctant to come in fully behind the expansion.