Southwest Airlines’ 2019 third-quarter (Q3) results topped analysts’ expectations, as strong passenger demand and timing of maintenance events helped offset challenges related to the grounding of its 34 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
Qantas reported stronger demand in its international market for the three months through September, despite a drop-off in the Hong Kong market in recent months.
The sale of the London Gatwick slot portfolio previously held by UK leisure carrier Thomas Cook is progressing, following the selection of preferred bidders.
Ryanair Group CEO Michael O’Leary said the Irish LCC has reduced the number of Boeing 737 MAX 200s it expects in summer 2020 from 60 to 20-30 aircraft.
In a further move marking LCC Norwegian’s move away from rapid expansion to prioritizing profitability, the airline plans to establish a joint venture (JV) with China Leasing International Corporation (CCBLI) that will finance, own and lease aircraft that the carrier has on order.
Aircraft deliveries due in 2020 will start the next phase of Korean Air’s fleet renewal and will also allow the airline to begin introducing an onboard Wi-Fi product.
American Airlines’ adjusted net income for the 2019 third quarter (Q3) increased 15% year-over-year, despite continued operational challenges related to the ongoing grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX and a labor dispute with its mechanics.
The September collapse of Thomas Cook Group has had knock on effects for the UK’s MRO industry with one of its maintenance providers announcing it is set to close all operations by the end of 2019.
GE Aviation (GE) has identified a pool of eight GE90-115B engines that need immediate attention based on early findings in the probe of an Oct. 20 Thai Airways uncontained high-pressure turbine failure.
Boeing remains confident that the Boeing 737 MAX will be cleared to fly in at least some parts of the world by year-end 2019, even as it acknowledges that regulatory reviews of required changes are taking longer than its return-to-service time line assumes.
Surveillance data provider Aireon and the Cocesna air navigation services agency have signed an agreement to deploy space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) in six Central American countries.
Numerous delays to the roll-out of FAA’s long-awaited remote ID rulemaking have caused the agency to fall behind EASA in the race to implement a comprehensive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, or drone) traffic management system (UTM), the co-founder of U.S.-based UTM platform AirMap said.
Boeing completed the first of what is expected to be several practice dry-runs of the certification test flight of the 737 MAX updated flight control computer software.
Hawaiian Airlines is putting together arguments it hopes will convince U.S. authorities to reverse an earlier ruling and allow the airline to form a joint venture with Japan Airlines (JAL).
Bhutanese flag-carrier Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines has taken delivery of its first ATR 42-600 turboprop, equipped with new avionics tailored to handle the challenging Himalayan environment.
Weaker demand and program delays have brewed up a perfect storm for Boeing’s widebody business which continues to see downward pressure on 777 and 787 production rates and a slower than planned ramp up of the 777X.
UPS Flight Forward, the package carrier’s drone subsidiary, has announced new retail, pharmaceutical and health care partners for its planned delivery service.
Air New Zealand has announced it will launch nonstop flights to New York in October next year, and at the same time will cut its long-running Los Angeles-London service.
The FAA is on target to transition to an international format and a new, streamlined system for distributing notices to airmen (NOTAM) by Summer 2020, according to a senior official from the agency’s Air Traffic Organization (ATO).
JetBlue Airways is tweaking its Latin American and Caribbean network, redeploying capacity from Mexico City to focus on more profitable flying elsewhere in the region, company executives said on their 2019 third-quarter (Q3) earnings call.
Russia’s Volga-Dnepr charter cargo airline, the world’s largest operator of Antonov An-124, will modernize and reduce its fleet of the super heavy freighters to withstand a significant downturn of demand on the air cargo market.
