Under the proposed budget, the FAA would spend $2.4 million in the coming fiscal year to place “senior representatives” in the UK, Mexico, Poland and somewhere in Southeast Asia.
Daily passenger throughput at U.S. airports has begun approaching the 2 million mark on peak travel days, the latest sign that pent-up demand is fueling a domestic travel recovery in the U.S.
The recently released report was the third from the COVID-19 Testing and Screening Expert Advisory Panel established by Canada’s Minister of Health in November 2020.
The European Commission and the Italian government have reached “a common understanding on the key parameters to ensure economic discontinuity between ITA and Alitalia.”
Iberia is converting three Airbus A330 “preighters” back to passenger configurations and returning 29 stored A320 family aircraft to service, while Lufthansa will return up to 50 more aircraft to service.
Japanese domestic carriers Air Do and Solaseed Air have confirmed they will be forming a partnership under a common holding company, although it appears both brands will continue.
Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) LCC subsidiary Scoot received two new Airbus A321neos May 29, the first of the type to complement its Airbus A320s and Boeing 787s.
Within a budget request for aeronautics research in fiscal 2022 of $914.8 million, up from $828.7 million enacted for 2021, NASA plans to accelerate the launch of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program to produce a full-scale, ultra-efficient subsonic X-plane.
The Biden administration rolled out a fiscal 2022 proposed federal budget on May 28 that seeks $18.45 billion for the FAA, $1 billion more than sought last year by the previous Trump administration.
As U.S. airlines gear up for an expected surge in travel demand for the summer season, operators in Canada are still waiting for their government to offer guidance toward easing its heavy restrictions, many of which have been in place for more than a year.
Ryanair Group airline Lauda Europe plans to not renew the leases of its 29 Airbus A320ceos, saying the aircraft are less efficient than Ryanair´s Boeing 737-800 fleet and the Group’s incoming 737 MAX 200s.
British aerostructures and aviation parts maker Senior Plc has been jockeying with a distressed-asset investment group, which recently made an offer to buy Senior for about $1.05 billion, the company revealed May 28.
Boeing 787 deliveries have been on hold since early May as the company works to satisfy U.S. FAA concerns about how production issues are being addressed, the company confirmed May 28.
New travel restrictions have been put in place between France and the UK aimed at stopping the spread of the so-called Indian variant of the coronavirus, just as Eurocontrol figures show signs of a recovery in travel demand.
Hawaiian Airlines is terminating its Ohana turboprop operation, confirming that the service will not return after months of suspension due to the coronavirus crisis.
Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire and technology company Indra have formed Startical to develop and deploy a constellation of more than 200 small low-Earth-orbit satellites to provide a global air traffic management service.
