Lilium plans to use at least six conforming prototypes for testing in an effort to obtain concurrent European and U.S. type certification of its seven-seat electric air taxi.
The airline cited improving vaccination and demand trends, in a sign that the emergency jobs program achieved its goal of sustaining industry employment through the COVID-19 crisis.
Blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition has cited the deep aerospace industry experience of the team backing Vertical Aerospace as a key reason behind its decision to take the UK electric air-taxi startup public with backing from industry partners and airline customers.
Regulators’ stepped-up scrutiny of the Boeing 737 MAX has been justified, but breakdowns at Boeing and the FAA that contributed to two fatal accidents should not be a foundation for long-term technical disagreements between civil aviation agencies, Boeing’s top executive said.
IATA chief Willie Walsh sharply criticized the UK prime minister and the U.S. president after hopes that they would announce a reopening of air travel between their countries this week failed to materialize.
Airlines are hoping the G7 summit in Cornwall, England, and the U.S./EU summit in Brussels will lead to North Atlantic travel corridors being put in place.
The South African government has selected Takatso Consortium as the preferred strategic equity partner to take a majority 51% stake in South African Airways (SAA).
The Colombian LCC, previously known as Viva Air until a recent brand refresh, said the service is one of 15 new international routes that will be introduced over the next three years.
As another electric air-taxi startup announces plans to go public, Embraer has confirmed that its Eve Urban Air Mobility spinoff is in talks with a blank-check company.
Between receiving EASA certification for the aircraft and its electric propulsion unit in June 2020 and the end of last year, Pipistrel delivered 39 Velis Electros.
The timing of the move has drawn criticism from the CEO of Smartwings Group who also bemoaned that Eurowings’ parent Lufthansa had received state aid from Germany while his group had not received any from the Czech government.
With investments from American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce, plus commitments for up to 1,000 aircraft, electric air-taxi developer Vertical Aerospace has reached agreement with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition to go public in a deal that values the UK startup at $2.2 billion.
Russia’s Irkut Corporation has scheduled the initial deliveries of its new MC-21 narrowbody passenger airliner, the first six of which will go to Rossiya Airlines in 2022.
United Airlines is creating a new corporate venture fund geared toward innovation and sustainability, the latest example of the carrier’s commitment to embrace new technologies in aviation.
European airline CEOs sounded an optimistic note for the summer season as they called on EU governments to proceed with a coordinated relaxing of travel restrictions to allow pent-up demand to translate into ticket sales.
DFS air traffic controllers have taken advantage of depressed air traffic to trial better ways of working and are looking at going beyond the existing “remote tower” concept.
Boeing’s inventory of completed, undelivered 787s grew to about 100 aircraft at the end of the first quarter, largely due to a five-month delivery pause that ended in late March.
The IATA Travel Pass will go live “within weeks,” as the airline representative body attempts to breathe life back into the international travel sector.
Aviation industry executives from some key Asian markets are seeing very little progress in rebuilding demand due to the latest coronavirus outbreaks, and momentum is likely to be slow to return in the near term.
An application to the U.S. government comes less than three months after Alaska Airlines joined oneworld and just days since the carrier confirmed that a partnership with the non-aligned Emirates would come to an end after almost a decade.
