U.S. airlines are benefiting from strong leisure demand during the traditionally busy peak summer season, but for many the final steps to a sustained recovery—business and international traffic upticks—could be difficult.
There’s plenty of recovery still to go, but if Delta Air Lines’ latest earnings call is any indication, normal—or at least the new normal—is becoming more visible on the horizon.
The Irish government has announced that starting July 19 it will allow non-essential international travel again as it introduces the EU Digital COVID Certificate, designed to facilitate flying within Europe.
The FAA has pulled the maintenance inspection authority of Rhoades Aviation, the certificate holder that operates Hawaii-based all-cargo carrier Transair, based on findings from a months-long probe into its operation.
Under the new 2021-2025 business plan the ITA fleet is set to grow to 78 aircraft by 2022 and, with the gradual addition of new generation aircraft to the fleet, 105 by the end of 2025.
Advanced air mobility offers a clean sheet for development of training centered on pilot competencies rather than traditional prescriptive models, says CAE, as the training provider partners with Volocopter to support the German startup’s electric air taxi services.
In an immediately adopted airworthiness directive (AD) due out July 20, the agency will order Boeing 737 operators to inspect cabin altitude pressure switches more frequently.
The Canadian federal and Quebec provincial governments together will invest in projects at Bell, CAE and Pratt & Whitney Canada to develop technologies supporting the electrification and decarbonization of aviation.
Logic dictates that the stark differences in the full-service and ultra-low-cost business models would prohibit those operators from ever forging partnerships.
A British Airways 787-8’s inadvertent nose-gear retraction at a London Heathrow gate last month was caused by an incorrectly placed pin during routine maintenance—a design-related risk that regulators flagged in an airworthiness directive that had not been implemented on the aircraft.
Airbus has joined Canada’s SAF+ Consortium, which plans to build in Montreal the first power-to-liquids plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel from renewable electricity and captured carbon dioxide.
Cathay Pacific is due to introduce its first Airbus A321neos into service in August, as the carrier continues to gradually increase its network and capacity.
A combination of employment-preservation measures has allowed TAP Air Portugal to radically reduce the number of redundancies it initially planned to make as a result of the pandemic.
Embraer’s Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions has partnered with an energy company to evaluate development of a viable charging infrastructure for electric air taxis.
Domestic travel restrictions are likely to remain in place in Malaysia into the 2021 fourth quarter (Q4), causing a major setback for Malaysia Airlines’ recovery timetable.
ACI World estimated that collectively airports around the globe will see a $108 billion reduction in revenue in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic forecasts.
Rossiya hopes to deploy the narrowbody in summer 2022 after receiving assurances from airframer Irkut regarding the delivery schedule for the aircraft.
