Boeing’s new recommendation that 737 MAX pilots undergo simulator training before they return to flying the airliner justifies moves by major simulator manufacturers to ramp up production.
London Heathrow airport has turned the clock back on its long-running plans to build a much-needed third runway, with the announcement of a new bout of public consultation over the much-delayed project.
Airbus announced plans Jan. 9 to increase A320-family production to seven aircraft per month at its plant in Mobile, Alabama beginning early 2021, up from its current rate of five per month.
To better synchronize and promote airport and development in the Philippines, the country’s Department of Tourism (DOT) and Department of Transportation (DOTr) signed a memorandum of agreement Jan. 8 for the “Institutionalized Leveraging of Infrastructure Program for Airport Development (iLIPAD).”
All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to receive its third Airbus A380 in April, which will allow the carrier to move to an all-A380 service on the busy route between Tokyo Narita airport and Honolulu.
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight PS752 was attempting to return to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport when it crashed Jan. 8, killing all 176 people on board, Iran’s civil aviation authority said in a statement on its website.
By Sean Broderick, Helen Massy-Beresford, Adrian Schofield
Officials from Ukraine and executives from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) headed to Tehran, Iran on Jan. 8 to learn more about what brought down a UIA Boeing 737-800 shortly after it departed Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) earlier that day, killing all 179 people on board.
Aeromexico and American Airlines are the two latest airlines to settle with Boeing over compensation terms related to the ongoing grounding of the 737 MAX.
Delta Air Lines is looking to capitalize on its status as the world’s most-profitable airline by investing in a host of applications ranging from exoskeleton suits for employees to an expanded partnership with U.S.-based rideshare company Lyft.
Ankara-based Turkish Aerospace, which took significant steps toward developing an indigenous defense sector in 2019, continues to play a major role supplying civil aircraft manufacturers.
Airlines are making changes to their flight planning and schedules to avoid Iranian and Iraqi airspace amid growing military tensions between the U.S. and Iran—and after a Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) aircraft crashed after take-off from Tehran, killing everyone on board.
United Airlines will take a $90 million charge against its Hong Kong routes that reflects reduced demand in the market and related capacity cuts due to continued political unrest, the carrier said Jan. 7.
The FAA issued Notices to Airmen (NOTAM) the evening of Jan. 7 prohibiting U.S. civil aircraft operators from using airspace over Iraq, Iran, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
Shell Aviation, the jet-fuel arm of the global energy company, will partner with biofuel provider World Energy to supply Lufthansa Group with sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) on select flights from San Francisco.
Boeing will urge operators to put 737 MAX crews through simulator sessions before they return to line flying–an about-face triggered by recent trials that showed line pilots were not executing emergency procedures correctly, the company said Jan. 7.
Major aerospace supplier Heico through a subsidiary has acquired the human-machine interface product line of Spectralux for an unidentified amount of cash.
Avianca Holdings, pressing on with its sweeping “Avianca 2021” revamp, has re-worked its Airbus A320neo order book, canceling 20 aircraft, deferring remaining deliveries until the second half of the decade, and signing on to lease additional models from BOC Aviation.
Calgary-based WestJet has removed all Boeing 737 MAX operations from its schedule through Apr. 4, marking the carrier’s ninth MAX-related schedule update since the type was grounded in mid-March 2019.
