Taiwan’s EVA Air has come to an agreement with Boeing to swap seven of its outstanding 787-10 orders to three 777F freighters and four smaller 787-9 aircraft.
Embattled aircraft connectivity provider Gogo will sell its commercial aviation unit to bankrupt satellite services provider Intelsat for $400 million in a deal that might help the latter return to a viable business while the former tries to avoid liquidation.
China’s HNA Group, which owns 100% of ground handling giant Swissport International, is to give up its shareholding under a debt-for-equity restructuring that will see ownership pass to the company’s creditors.
E-commerce giant Amazon said it has received air carrier certification of its Prime Air drone delivery service from the FAA, making it the third U.S. company the agency has approved to deliver packages by drone.
El Al has completed the first flight of an Israeli airline to a Gulf Arab country, in the wake of an August rapprochement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
Rolls-Royce plans to reduce costs linked to its spare-engines pool and lean more heavily on third-party shops as part of sweeping changes within its civil aerospace business to cope with reduced air transport activity for the foreseeable future.
The gradual restoration of the route networks of Emirates Airline and LCC sister-company flydubai has seen the resumption of the strategic partnership between the two carriers.
Dublin-headquartered aviation asset manager Stellwagen Group has come under new ownership, after a consortium of investors bought out majority shareholder and company founder Douglas Brennan.
China’s three state carriers reported a combined CNY26.1 billion ($3.8 billion) net loss for the first six months (H1) of 2020, even as the Chinese commercial aviation industry worked its way back toward normal capacity in the second quarter.
Recaro Aircraft Seating and Airbus leadership are discussing how to collaborate on ideas to manage the effects on the interiors industry as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
Argentina was scheduled to reopen its borders and permit airlines to fly in and out of the country on Sept. 1 after almost six months of mandatory closure. It won’t happen.
Workers at London Heathrow Airport are trialing three types of rapid-turnaround COVID-19 tests, which could ultimately be used for passenger testing, eliminating the need for quarantine.
The Colombian government has agreed to loan Avianca Holdings up to $370 million as part of a restructuring designed to get the airline back on solid financial footing.
Indian conglomerate Adani Enterprises is preparing to take over Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL)—the country’s second-busiest airport—and will also gain control over a new airport to be built in Mumbai.
A study funded by the government of South Korea suggests that a passenger who is infected with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 but shows no symptoms can infect other passengers on the same flight.
