A new initiative to increase the amount of time U.S. air traffic controllers spend in on-the-job training (OJT) is off to a promising start, a top FAA air traffic official said.
FedEx Corp. revised its revenue outlook sharply lower amid weakening global trade and sagging industrial production, causing shares to fall nearly 13% in trading Sept. 17.
The FAA has considerable work to do before clearing the Boeing 737 MAX to fly again, but once satisfied, the agency will consider lifting its ban even if other regulators remain unconvinced, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said.
Airbus is forecasting a need for 39,210 new passenger and cargo aircraft over the next 20 years, an increase of around 4% over its prediction a year ago.
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been formally invited to testify at a U.S. House Transportation Committee hearing Oct. 30 on the 737 MAX, the committee’s chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) has announced.
Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has received two development flight-simulators for its C919 narrowbody program, following a change of supplier.
The U.S.’s effort to reduce wrong-surface operations ranges from airport-specific changes to more basic tactics, such as refusing visual approaches in favor of technology-aided guidance.
American Airlines is looking at additional ways to leverage a surface-management and communications tool that has improved taxiing efficiency and reduced radio traffic between pilots and controllers at two of its hubs.
ZeroAvia—a startup investigating the use of hydrogen fuel cells for sustainable green aviation—has secured a £2.7 million ($3.4 million) research grant from the British government.
The FAA has rolled out its new taxiway-landing alert system at 13 airports and is confident that all 35 facilities getting the enhancement will be up and running by October 2020, the agency’s top runway safety official confirmed.
The French government wants the would-be buyers of Aigle Azur’s activities to improve their bids and take on more of its employees, France’s secretary of state for transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said Sept. 17.
A deadline for would-be investors in Alitalia to present their business plan for the relaunch of the bankrupt carrier has been extended by one month, a union source told Aviation Daily.
The FAA and several stakeholders are progressing toward the next major step in the U.S.’s remote air traffic control (ATC) tower evaluation effort, readying Northern Colorado Regional Airport (FNL) to join the program this fall.
United Airlines has signed a new, multi-year agreement with Expedia Group, resolving a bitter legal dispute that threatened the companies’ years-long partnership.
The rate of equipage for the FAA’s automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) mandate increased by 69% across aviation segments between 2018-2019, the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General (IG) has reported in a letter to Congress.
Scandinavian LCC Norwegian Air Shuttle has secured some financial breathing space, after its bondholders voted in favor of changes to their investment terms.
