Estonia’s Nordic Aviation Group (Nordica) has posted a €5.4 million ($6.1 million) full-year loss, just days after announcing a retraction from its Tallinn home market where Latvian rival airBaltic is poised for expansion.
South African Airways (SAA) has detailed plans to lease in Airbus A350-900s to operate its nonstop Johannesburg-New York JFK flights, replacing the A340-600s currently serving the route.
Aircraft lessor and MRO provider Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has repurchased a 4% shareholding that was held by Emaar Properties PJSC, returning the company to state ownership.
Universal Avionics is developing a supplemental type certificate (STC) for an Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) on the Airbus A320, thus paving the way for operators to retrofit their aircraft with a technology enabling low-visibility landing.
Aircalin, the national airline of New Caledonia, is planning the complete replacement of its jet fleet with the delivery of new Airbus widebodies and narrowbodies beginning soon.
Toulouse-based aerostructures and wiring specialist Latecoere said Searchlight Capital Partners—the investment fund that took a 26% stake of Latecoere in April—intends to make a takeover offer.
American Airlines has returned 14 weekly frequencies it used for flights between Chicago and both Beijing and Shanghai, citing an inability to re-start the economically challenging services “in the near future” after suspending them last year.
Bernstein Research warns that late deliveries of Boeing 737 MAXs to European airlines will make an already imbalanced supply and demand equation worse for European airlines and sees only limited benefit for the sector of two possible major bankruptcies.
Four unions representing U.S. aviation safety inspectors and mechanics wrote to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urging the department to implement three long-delayed Congressional directives intended to boost oversight of foreign repair stations that work on U.S. aircraft.
The chairs of two U.S. House committees overseeing aviation security have introduced legislation that would require TSA to implement an improved covert testing program to identify security gaps in its screening process.
Icelandair is drafting in aircraft from one of its sister-companies as it continues to try to offset problems arising from the grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX fleet.
Air France and KLM plan to swap their remaining firm orders for Boeing 787 and Airbus A350 orders as the aligned carriers seek to gain fleet efficiencies through harmonization and accelerated growth of similar aircraft at both airlines, the Air France-KLM group said June 28.
The substantial fleet changes planned by Emirates Airline will have a major impact on how its home base Dubai International Airport (DXB) will operate in the future, the airport’s CEO Paul Griffiths said.
Boeing will need at least until September to address a new flight control computer (FCC) issue and wrap up changes needed to get the fleet flying again.
Southwest Airlines and United Airlines, two of the three U.S. 737 MAX operators, have removed the grounded aircraft from their schedules for another month, reflecting continued uncertainty over when U.S. regulators will clear the fleet to fly.
The European Commission (EC) has given the U.S. a stern warning not to take any action against Milan-based Air Italy that would prevent it flying to the U.S.
U.S. aerospace manufacturers and policy leaders would be wise to pursue more environmentally friendly aircraft offerings for at least one simple reason: exports into Europe and elsewhere where climate change concerns are rising, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
China Southern Airlines revealed that it will explore low-cost aviation development with LCC Spring Airlines and is studying which company is suitable for developing a new LCC model in China.
Canada’s air transport market took two steps towards more collaboration and consolidation June 27, as Air Transat executives agreed to accept Air Canada’s purchase offer, while the proposed WestJet-Delta Air Lines transborder joint venture (JV) was granted the Canada Competition Bureau’s blessing to move forward.
The increase in traffic at Europe’s airports is slowing after a period of dynamic growth with freight traffic in particular weighing on the region’s airport performance, industry group Airports Council International (ACI) Europe said June 27.
