Aviation Daily

When it comes to certification, major derivatives are often more difficult and sometimes as expensive and more taxing than all-new alternatives.

Despite the revival in passenger traffic, interest in narrowbody passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversions remains strong.

Lufthansa Group airlines head of sales for sub-Saharan Africa tells Aviation Daily that Africa is traveling again.

The parent company of Porter Airlines has finalized a loan with the Canadian government ahead of Porter’s planned Aug. 3 resumption of service.

The Australian government has revised its approach to COVID-19 border controls, reducing entry quotas in the short term but also laying out a phased roadmap to restoring international travel in the longer term.

DAE Capital, the leasing arm of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), has maintained a stable portfolio as of the end of the first half (H1) of 2021, acquiring and selling 16 aircraft.

Sky Express said it would be able to optimize connectivity to the islands of Greece using the newer, more sustainable regional turboprop.

Backed by Japanese investment, the new airport is located in the Tuv province about 50 km (31 mi.) southwest of central Ulaanbaatar.

Etihad Airways and El Al Israel Airlines have launched a codeshare agreement following the normalization of diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel in 2020.

“Recently Cyprus Airways was acquired by the SJC Group, a Maltese group with operations across Africa and the Middle East,” Cyprus Airways disclosed June 30.

IATA and Rolls-Royce on July 1 unveiled their aftermarket-competitiveness agreement, adding momentum to the alternative-parts and repairs push.

Southwest Airlines pilots said a staff shortage caused by an aggressive schedule ramp-up and training bottleneck is exacerbating operational challenges plaguing the company in recent weeks.

Europe mandated that performance-based navigation should be the basis for every runway approach procedure by 2030 and the mandate is beginning to translate into meaningful changes.

The air transport sector must move swiftly toward digitalizing the travel experience to prevent airports from grinding to a halt as passenger numbers rise post-pandemic, the European head of air transport IT provider SITA said July 1.

Spiraling coronavirus infection rates have led to a more than three-week suspension of flights for fledgling South African LCC Lift.

China is continuing its long march toward being one of the top aviation markets in the world.

Flypop, which plans a series of routes between the UK and South Asia, aims to start low-cost long-haul flights in October, but much depends on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic at that point.

Munich-Dubai was a regular fixture of Lufthansa’s network from 2003 to 2016, but the Star Alliance member suspended the route shortly after Emirates increased its frequencies to 3X-daily.

Scandinavian startup Flyr, backed by industry veteran Erik Braathen, has launched its first commercial routes, initially focusing on connecting domestic destinations in Norway.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that the ban was necessary following Belarus’ forced diversion of a Ryanair flight on May 23 so a dissident journalist aboard the aircraft could be detained.

SpiceJet will seek shareholder permission to raise up to INR25 billion ($335 million) through the issuance of eligible securities to qualified institutional investors.

Restrictive MRO contracts can impact an airline's decision to fly an aircraft.

“It’s all about gauge, gauge, gauge”—that's how United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby described the company’s recently announced 270-aircraft narrowbody order on an investor call June 29.

Saudi Arabia is considering a new airline as part of a new transport and logistics strategy aimed at increasing air passenger connectivity and air cargo activity.

It has emerged that the Volocopter 2X was issued a permit to fly by French civil aviation authority DGAC after receiving approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) using recently released guidelines for the design verification of drones.