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Passenger and cargo airlines around the world are re-routing their flights into and over the Middle East after FAA issued a notice to airmen (NOTAM) banning U.S.-based civil aircraft from flying over the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, citing “inadvertent risk to U.S. civil aviation operations and potential for miscalculation or misidentification.”
U.S. antitrust officials blessed the merger of L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation on June 20, with the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) announcing terms for allowing the deal that match what the companies were already doing.
French airport operator Groupe ADP plans to install an experimental vertiport at one of its 10 Paris-area aerodrome locations to test all components of an urban air mobility (UAM) service that could be launched for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, which will hosted by Paris.
With forgings and castings for commercial aviation engines remaining a chokepoint in the narrowbody supply chain, engine OEM General Electric is trying to diversify away from traditional providers Arconic and Berkshire Hathaway’s Precision Castparts, analysts said at the Paris Air Show.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury told investors during the Paris Air Show that further bump-ups in production rates of commercial narrowbody aircraft could come around 2022-23, and that discussions with suppliers are ongoing.
Emirates Airline is in talks with Boeing to spread out deliveries of the Boeing 777X over a longer period of time and will likely switch to the 787-9 from the larger -10 for which it had placed a preliminary order at the 2017 Dubai Air Show.
L3 Commercial Aviation subsidiary ACSS is launching the SafeRoute+ retrofit system for reception and display of automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) In target data from surrounding aircraft.
Air France-KLM and hotel group Accor said they were strengthening their partnership by offering a dual reward scheme in what they said was a European travel industry first.
L3 Commercial Aviation is planning to build its first U.S. airline training center, which will open in October and be co-located with the company’s Arlington, Texas-based L3 Link Training & Simulation facility.
The Paris Air Show shed no light on when the Boeing 737 MAX will return to service, but it provided a major morale boost for the tattered model all the same thanks to a 200-aircraft commitment from an airline consortium led by an iconic carrier.
JetBlue Airways will convert 13 aircraft in its existing Airbus A321neo order book to the XLR version—launched at the Paris Air Show earlier this week—for delivery scheduled to begin in 2023.
Saudi Arabian LCC Flynas has signed an MOU with Airbus for 10 A321XLR aircraft, the extended-range version of the A321LR Airbus launched earlier in the week at the Paris Air Show.
Denmark-based regional aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has signed an MOU with Airbus for 20 A220 family aircraft, following a $2 billion letter of intent (LOI) for up to 105 ATR aircraft earlier in the week.
Delta Air Lines has acquired a 4.3% percent equity stake in Hanjin-KAL, Korean Air’s largest shareholder, setting the stage for even closer cooperation between the two joint-venture (JV) partners.
Airbus has not given up yet on securing a major narrowbody order from International Airlines Group (IAG)—flipping a commitment announced by the company for the Boeing 737 MAX earlier this week.
Collins Aerospace, broadening its aftermarket services reach and boosting its backlog, unveiled $1.5 billion in newly signed multi-year deals, including major wins for its Aerostructures and Power and Controls (PC) businesses.
In a joint declaration issued June 19, the CEOs of four major European manufacturers officially asked EU institutions to create a new public-private partnership that would help aviation meet its ambitious environmental targets.
Professional association and standards-writer SAE International says it is forming a new committee for applied artificial intelligence (AI) in aviation systems.
