The addition of sustainable aviation fuel at Cologne Bonn Airport has been driven in part by demand from air freight operators looking to offer a lower-carbon to their customers.
Boeing’s long-delayed 777X program has suffered another blow after the FAA declined the manufacturer’s request for Type Inspection Authorization (TIA), citing concerns over unresolved software and hardware issues.
A UK-funded research program is developing a hybrid hydrogen and electric propulsion architecture that could offer a stepwise approach to introducing cryogenic and superconducting technology while easing the path to certification of the technology.
European airlines are facing a further obstacle in the road to recovery as EU leaders step up calls for coordinated quarantine for arrivals from the UK, in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus Delta variant.
As the gradual lifting of travel restrictions sets the stage for a swift traffic recovery this summer, Airbus and Boeing plan on sticking to strategies that can now be described as proven.
WestJet is ramping up summer domestic flying by restarting nearly 40 routes and affirming it will start 11 new nonstop services across Canada, signaling growing confidence in the country’s travel-demand recovery, the airline said June 25.
The UK is hoping to implement its own pilot mental fitness rules later in 2021, mirroring EASA regulations that entered force in February, however the requirement for start-of-employment psychological assessments could be made optional.
Miami International’s decision to switch its gates to a preferential-use model, rather than the previous common-use model, was a deciding factor in Spirit Airlines' proposed launch at the airport this fall.
Thailand’s Phuket island tourism sandbox is set to receive its first batch of vaccinated foreign tourists starting July 1, once the Kingdom’s cabinet approves the proposal.
The decision to reactivate the four-engine widebodies, that were being phased out from its fleet, follows Lufthansa witnessing growing demand for first-class services.
IATA and the World Health Organization (WHO) are concerned that Africa could be left behind in the reopening of international air travel, with only 1% of Africans currently immunized against the coronavirus.
An expected surge in air transport retirements driven by reduced demand is still not underway, with about 200 airframes booked as permanently removed from the global fleet through the first five months of 2021, a preliminary analysis by Naveo Consultancy shows.
As Airbus evaluates liquid hydrogen as a possible route to zero-emission commercial aviation by the mid-2030s, it has begun a research program to explore the potential of cryogenically cooled electric propulsion for large civil aircraft.
The UK government has marginally eased coronavirus restrictions on overseas flights, but the moves seem unlikely to satisfy either airlines or passengers wanting to travel this summer.
Almost 1,800 routes across the Americas have been lost during the pandemic and connectivity in the region will continue to suffer unless governments put a roadmap in place toward ending travel restrictions, IATA has warned.
Regional airports management company Avports is leading a $100 million capital improvement program at Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN), a project that has U.S. start-up ULCC Avelo Airlines on board to make HVN its first East Coast base.
U.S. ULCCs Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines are each on track to double in size and their CEOs see plenty of space in the market to accommodate that growth.
Aer Lingus has been burning through an average of more than €1 million ($1.2 million) a day for more than a year and government support funding is insufficient, the airline’s CEO told Irish parliamentarians June 22.
