Unsuccessful bidders for the contract to run Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport have appealed the decision to award the deal to SOF Connect, a consortium led by Munich Airport International (MAI).
The UPS drone-delivery service at WakeMed Health and Hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina, is not affected by an accident in Switzerland earlier in 2019 that led Swiss Post to suspend operations of the drone both carriers use to transport medical samples.
Scores of flights to and from Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) were canceled Aug. 5 as air traffic controllers and other aviation workers went on strike as part of the territory’s civil protests.
With the sale of its CRJ business to Mitsubishi announced in June, Bombardier essentially exits a sector it entered 33 years ago when it acquired Canadair from the Canadian government.
Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic received tentative approval from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Aug. 2 to operate an expanded transatlantic joint venture (JV) between the U.S., UK and continental Europe.
Mexican LCC Volaris is pressing on with its aggressive growth strategy that relies on converting bus passengers to air travel with low base fares, fueling its expansion with high utilization rates to keep costs down.
The European Commission (EC) has ordered France to recover €8.5 million ($9.4 million) of illegal aid from Ryanair after it found that marketing agreements between the Irish LCC and local tourist authorities at Montpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL) were illegal under European Union (EU) state aid rules.
Among several recent orders and deliveries announced by lessors, Singapore-based BOC Aviation will place four Airbus A321neos with locally headquartered LCC Scoot Airlines.
Japan Airlines’ (JAL) financial results have been hurt by a weakening in international demand, which has previously been an area of strength for the Japanese airline industry.
Utah-based regional carrier SkyWest Airlines boosted its net income in the 2019 second-quarter (Q2), aided by its ongoing fleet transition initiatives and the divestiture of ExpressJet Airlines in January 2019.
International Airlines Group (IAG) said its operating profit rose 6.7% in the 2019 second quarter (Q2) as it shrugged off the impact of Brexit uncertainty and predicted passenger unit revenues would remain flat for the year as a whole.
In a bid to meet a growing demand for staff in one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing aviation markets, FLC Group’s Bamboo Airways broke ground in July on a new training center in Quy Nhon in central Vietnam.
A team of European hypersonic researchers are preparing for wind tunnel tests of a Mach 8 concept that is designed to prove technologies for the development of future ultra-long-range, high-speed commercial vehicles and air-breathing space launch systems.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary warned that the Irish LCC would have to close bases and cut jobs because of Boeing 737 MAX delays and Brexit uncertainty following a fall in its fiscal first-quarter (Q1) profit.
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. saw second-quarter (Q2) net income and revenue come in below analysts’ expectations, as air cargo volumes and yields were harmed by the impact of escalating tariffs and global trade tensions.
GE’s aviation businesses are seeing some financial disruptions related to the Boeing 737 MAX grounding but expect the issues to fade once the model is back in service, deliveries resume, and production ramps up.
Southwest Airlines has established a multipath career program to train ab initio, collegiate, military and employee candidates to become first officers with the airline.
