Spirit Airlines is progressively adding back Airbus A319 narrowbodies into service and altering delivery streams for its aircraft on order to support the company’s planned growth during the next few years.
There are nuances among some airlines in the U.S. regarding the best short and longer-term solutions to combat climate change, particularly with respect to carbon offsets.
UK air navigation service provider (ANSP) NATS plans to make available to aviation stakeholders an environmental performance measurement system that it says will help cut CO2 emissions as the airline industry recovers from the coronavirus pandemic.
Ryanair expects the summer 2021 season to be an extended one and is preparing to have about 75% of its summer 2019 capacity ready to operate as the airline looks toward receiving its first Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
American Airlines will deploy up to 80% of its pre-crisis capacity in the June quarter, as rising bookings and positive momentum on vaccines lead U.S. carriers to gear up for an expected summertime surge in leisure travel.
Malaysia’s largest airport operator, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), is planning to invest MYR1.3 billion ($315.3 million) for the redevelopment of Kuala Lumpur Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (SZB).
Southwest Airlines has committed to continue supporting the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s development of sustainable aviation fuel produced from food waste.
Cathay Pacific has confirmed that it will close its pilot base in Canada, and the airline is reviewing the status of its bases in Australia and New Zealand.
Bye Aerospace has launched development of the eFlyer 800, an eight-seat, all-electric competitor to Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft King Air 260 turboprop.
Air Tanzania plans to expand its fleet by adding two Airbus A220-300 and one De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 later this year, despite suffering a massive financial loss for 2020.
The airline group said it would achieve this by purchasing one million tons of sustainable jet fuel per year, which will allow it to cut its annual emissions by two million tons by 2030.
More than 25% of CO2 emissions from flights in Europe could be eliminated by 2030, but improvements in air traffic management will be required, says a “think paper” released by Eurocontrol.
American Airlines and JetBlue Airways announced a major expansion of service from hub airports in Boston and New York City, as the two carriers proceed with the next phase of their Northeast Alliance (NEA).
Etihad Airways plans to step up its environmental sustainability initiatives, making them a regular part of flights rather than individual research flights.
The recovery of air traffic in India is going backward as the country experiences a second wave of coronavirus cases that is proving more rampant than its first outbreak in 2020.
Kuwaiti LCC Jazeera Airways anticipates that passenger demand will return to pre-pandemic levels by 2021 fourth quarter(Q4), Chairman Marwan Boodai said April 21.
New aircraft orders and some delivery-position shuffling has helped Boeing cut the number of unsold 737 MAXs in its inventory to about 60, an Aviation Week analysis shows.
Airbus is moving ahead with the relaunch of its aerostructures business by proposing to reintegrate some of it into the core Airbus structure while carving out a detailed parts company that it could put up for sale later.
