Aviation Daily

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan’s health ministry said on May 10 that it will quarantine all China Airlines pilots as a stop-gap solution to curb the spread of new COVID-19 clusters on the island.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
The FAA plans to order inspections for cracking near the wheelwell on “certain” Boeing 787-8s and -9s linked to improper shimming during production.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Morgan Stanley has significantly reduced its forecast for the urban air mobility (UAM) market by 2040 and now expects regulatory hurdles to result in a substantially slower ramp-up in commercial services than anticipated.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
In Western aerospace manufacturing, it is becoming increasingly clear through first-quarter financial reports that a recovery is still a midterm prospect, and OEMs and suppliers face numerous overhangs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
International Airlines Group (IAG) is preparing to receive another 15 aircraft this year, giving it greater flexibility to respond to changing demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Although Air Canada’s major priority remains lobbying to reopen Canadian borders and restore passenger demand, the airline is taking its time to evaluate longer-term fleet composition, which could include adding the Airbus A321LR.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
International Airlines Group (IAG) is confident that it can restore its operating margin over the next three years as it gets ready to cautiously ramp up flying.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Japan Airlines has revealed more detail on how it plans to prepare for the post-pandemic environment by strengthening its LCC portfolio while scaling back its widebody mainline fleet.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Flydubai has announced it is growing its network in Russia to 11 points.
Airports & Networks

By Kurt Hofmann
Swiss International Airlines is confronting the greatest challenge in its corporate history as management concluded that a significant restructuring of its business is unavoidable.
Airlines & Lessors

By Wesley Charnock
Most Europeans are willing to travel by the end of August, demonstrating the “significant amount of pent-up demand which has accumulated following months of travel restrictions,” a new report has found.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Copa plans to return to a six-bank operating structure at its Panama City Tocumen hub in June to drive greater efficiency as it continues to face an uneven recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Recent start-up Avelo Airlines plans to use Connecticut’s Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) as its first East Coast base and has committed $1.2 million toward an ambitious, $100 million capital-improvement plan unveiled by the airport and its manager, Avports.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bill Carey
Miami International Airport on May 6 announced its selection by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to serve as a test site for drone detection technologies.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
After battling headwinds during the first quarter from a second wave of COVID-19 infections in Brazil, Azul is seeing positive signs for a rebound in demand as its home country’s vaccination rates increase.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
A further batch of aircraft from failed UK regional airline Flybe has been sold to new owners.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
The rapid growth in e-commerce and express package transport has driven Boeing to put in place additional capacity to modify 737-800s to the Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) configuration.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lori Ranson
The ULCC is rightfully boasting that it could be the first U.S. operator to fully recover and its market capitalization has already surpassed pre-pandemic levels.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Turkish Airlines said deferrals and cancellations for aircraft ordered before the pandemic and due to be delivered in 2020-21 have now been signed with OEMs.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Startup Wright Electric has begun testing the megawatt-scale power inverter that is a key building block in development of the electric propulsion system for its planned single-aisle airliner.
Emerging Technologies

By Kurt Hofmann
Ireland-based ULCC Ryanair will open a base at Stockholm Arlanda during the 2021 winter season and launch domestic services in Sweden for the first time.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Australian regulators have issued a draft rejection of an application by Qantas and Japan Airlines to cooperate more closely, although Qantas says it will argue to have the decision reversed in the final ruling.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Air France-KLM said May 6 that it expects to offer around half of its equivalent 2019 capacity in the second quarter of 2021.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
An absence of passenger-aircraft belly capacity and growing needs of shippers to move goods is translating into more long-term charter contracts for Atlas Air Worldwide—a trend the company sees continuing well into the future.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Spirit AeroSystems disappointed Wall Street on May 5 with a reported loss and lower revenues than expected, as well as a sobering cashflow forecast for the whole year.
Aircraft & Propulsion