An urban air traffic management (UATM) system is needed to bridge the gap between conventional air traffic control and future autonomous ATM, EmbraerX said.
The average net earnings for Asia Pacific’s 25 main carriers fell a little more than 50% year-over-year (YOY) in 2018, reflecting “significantly higher jet fuel prices, adverse currency movements and rising pressures on non-fuel cost items,” the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) said May 16.
Thai Airways reported a steep drop in profits for the March quarter, although the airline is also moving closer to gaining approval for a major aircraft order.
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Elaine Chao ordered an immediate suspension May 15 of all passenger and cargo operations between U.S. and Venezuelan airports, citing “deteriorating conditions” in Venezuela that “threaten the safety and security of passengers, aircraft and crew.”
As U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders prepare to meet again at the White House next week to discuss a path forward for a possible, major infrastructure package, the question of how to pay for investments in roads, bridges, airports, and other needs looms in the background.
FAA leadership sees the upcoming meeting of regulators discussing the Boeing 737 MAX return-to-flight approval process as a key step towards restoring global aviation safety-related collaboration that broke down in the wake of uncoordinated decisions to ground the aircraft, the agency’s top official said May 15.
Brazilian jet maker Embraer, which is hiving off most of its commercial aircraft business to Boeing, missed Wall Street’s expectations for the first quarter of 2019, leaving financial analysts increasingly worried worse could be to come.
The specter of China foregoing Boeing airliners or other U.S. aerospace products is re-emerging now that countries are set to raise tariffs on each other’s imports following a breakdown in trade talks May 10.
Stephen Dickson, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for FAA administrator, defended the FAA’s practice of delegating certain safety and certification functions to manufacturers, telling lawmakers the agency’s Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) program has “allowed regulators to get much more efficiency and add more safety value than just throwing extra resources at it.”
London Heathrow Airport is about to enter the next stage of its third-runway expansion plan, with the opening of a statutory public consultation that will feed into a final planning application.
AirAsia has filed a legal challenge in an attempt to force Malaysian regulators to rule on long-running disputes between the airline and Kuala Lumpur airport operator Malaysia Airports.
A group of Alitalia pilot and cabin crew unions said they will strike Jun. 24, delaying a planned walkout until after the latest deadline for a formal bid for the bankrupt carrier.
Final flight tests of GE Aviation’s GE9X turbofan have been completed on the company’s 747-400 flying testbed ahead of the engine’s first flight this summer on the Boeing 777-9, the initial version of the aircraft manufacturer’s new 777X twinjet series.
Russian industrial giant Rostec has taken another step to swallow United Aircraft Corp., appointing ex-Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov as the new chairman of UAC’s board.
A group representing U.S. consumers wants the U.S. Congress to abandon proposals under consideration to raise the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) cap to $8.50 per segment from $4, saying the hike would “disproportionately burden budget-conscious consumers and families.”
An air traffic controller’s errant instruction to turn left instead of right towards an assigned heading during a rare departure pattern out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) led an EVA Air Boeing 777 to within hundreds of feet of a mountain peak topped with large antennas, an NTSB investigation found.
British regional airline Eastern Airways has become independent again after ownership of the airline was acquired from troubled helicopter operator Bristow Group.
Airbus A220 operators have been told to inspect fuel feed tubes for chafing caused by a clamp that, in extreme cases, could inhibit fuel from flowing to engines.
Air Italy plans a modest increase in its number of long-haul Airbus A330s, rather than taking on Boeing 787-8s, because of delays in delivering new aircraft to its minority shareholder, Qatar Airways.
