In the face of stiff competition from LCCs in Vienna, Austrian Airlines will undertake an aggressive cost-cutting effort in 2020 and could eliminate hundreds of jobs.
International Airlines Group (IAG) has been forced to reconsider its network plans, potentially through to early 2021, because of delivery delays impacting the Airbus A321neo.
Qatar Airways will postpone the retirement of its currently operating Boeing 777s to compensate for delivery delays of the new 777X variant, group CEO Akbar Al Baker said.
South African Airways (SAA) has taken delivery of the first of four new Airbus A350-900s, which the airline said will improve both its customer offering and its commercial prospects.
The U.S. Senate has passed a transportation funding bill for fiscal 2020, although doubts remain about whether Congress can complete the appropriations process before a Nov. 21 deadline to fund the government.
Marking the largest move yet in the overhaul of the aerostructures sector, leading provider Spirit AeroSystems will buy Bombardier’s aerostructures businesses in Northern Ireland and Morocco, as well as an MRO business in Dallas.
Merging airline flights more efficiently with commercial space launch and reentry activities requires that prototype technology be advanced to operational status, speakers told an Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) conference Oct. 31.
Atlas Air’s net income fell 18% in the 2019 third quarter (Q3), as global trade tensions and an ongoing dispute over a new pilot contract continued to weigh on the cargo carrier’s bottom line.
The FAA had first-hand knowledge of critical changes to the 737 MAX MCAS during the aircraft’s development, but Boeing’s lack of proper paperwork documenting the updates kept agency experts who may have given the system more scrutiny out of the loop.
Trans States Holdings has canceled an order for up to 100 Mitsubishi SpaceJet aircraft, the latest setback facing the Japanese manufacturer’s long-delayed regional jet program.
Impacted by a €155 million ($172.4 million) initial hit from the British Airways (BA) pilots’ strikes, the third-quarter 2019 net profit for International Airlines Group fell 10.6% to €1 billion.
Air France-KLM said it expected passenger unit revenue to fall in the last three months of 2019, following a 0.6% third-quarter decline, as its CEO prepares to set out a new competitive strategy at the Group’s forthcoming Nov. 5 investor day.
Swiss regional carrier Helvetic Airways has taken delivery of its first Embraer E190-E2, starting a period of significant growth for the niche airline.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has become the latest carrier to reduce its service to Hong Kong, as the protests in that city take a significant toll on demand.
A group of investors has agreed to buy Scandinavian travel company the Ving Group—which includes Thomas Cook’s Nordic airline—five weeks after the Sept. 23 collapse of leisure group Thomas Cook sparked the UK’s biggest peacetime repatriation of stranded holidaymakers.
Airbus is backing away from a controversial plan to charge MROs a percentage of their gross invoices, rescinding the proposed mandate a day before the deadline, Aviation Week has learned.
Pilots approaching a runway were able to see a drone encroaching on their airspace 30% of the time, according to a study by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and Oklahoma State University (OSU).
A Boeing engineer raised concerns as early as December 2015 about the reliance of a critical 737 MAX flight-control system on a single point-of-failure, show internal documents shared during a House committee hearing.
Small-drone manufacturer DJI has unveiled a quadcopter weighing 249 grams (0.5 lb.), which exempts it by 1 gram from registration requirements in the U.S. and other countries.
