Fiji Airways has selected the Airbus A350 to boost its widebody fleet, after reaching an agreement to lease two of this type to operate alongside its A330s.
Now struggling with challenges in its rail transportation business, Bombardier has announced the latest step in its plan to focus its aerospace unit on business aircraft.
Harris Corp. and L3 Technologies latest quarterly earnings are building expectations for when the two major aerospace and defense providers merge to become a potential sixth prime contractor.
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings (AAW) will put the first two Boeing 737-800Fs it will fly for Amazon Air into service this month, part of a ramp-up announced in March that has the contract freighter operator specialist on pace to increase its block hours 13% in 2019.
As Wall Street expects Boeing to take a multi-billion-dollar hit due to ongoing 737 MAX issues, the Chicago-based company at the end of April secured up to $5 billion in new debt and credit to cushion its balance sheet.
Three U.S. Democratic senators want to know what steps FAA is taking to finalize standards for minimum seat dimensions on commercial carriers, as required by the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.
Doha-based Qatar Airways is increasing its presence in Morocco, with a new service to Rabat and an expanded joint business agreement with oneworld alliance partner Royal Air Maroc.
Leading aerostructures provider Spirit AeroSystems has suspended its financial guidance for 2019 and shelved stock buybacks, executives announced May 1, as the Wichita manufacturer tries to get a handle on costs and challenges from the Boeing 737 MAX production slowdown and groundings.
Malaysian authorities are calling for comments on a proposed joint venture (JV) partnership between Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) and Japan Airlines (JAL).
Southern Airways Corp., parent of Mississippi-based commuter carrier Southern Airways Express and Hawaiian commuter/regional carrier Mokulele Airlines, has announced a strategic minority investment by SkyWest, Inc., parent of Utah-based regional SkyWest Airlines.
Dublin-based lessor AerCap’s Q1 2019 net income was held back by a “significantly lower” sales volume during the quarter compared to Q1 2018, the company said, resulting in a lower net gain on the sale of assets, partially offset by higher lease rents.
Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and its pilots’ unions have restarted negotiations in a bid to resolve a strike that has led to the cancellation of 3,586 flights since Apr. 26, disrupting 347,000 passengers.
FAA has banned all commercial and general aviation flight operations by U.S. pilots and carriers in Venezuelan airspace, citing “increasing political instability and tensions” and the “associated inadvertent risk to flight operations” stemming from the deteriorating political situation in the country.
Kazakhstan-based LCC FlyArystan launched commercial operations May 1 with flights from Almaty International Airport on six domestic routes to Karaganda, the national capital Nur-Sultan (Astana), Pavlodar, Shymkent, Taraz and Uralsk.
The Boeing 737 MAX is likely to be back up flying paying passengers long before the true cost of recent fatal accidents becomes clear on Boeing’s bottom line.
GE Aviation remained a bright spot at General Electric during the first quarter of 2019, becoming the largest and leading division at the embattled industrial giant.
United Airlines has not leveraged collateral in Avianca Holdings that could see it take control of the Colombian carrier following loan-covenant violations by majority shareholder BRW Aviation, which put up its ownership stake to guarantee a loan from the U.S. carrier.
Two lawmakers from the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee are calling on FAA to publish a proposed rule for remotely identifying unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by July 21, saying that recent drone sightings at airports and sporting events in the U.S. and Europe “underscored the need to quickly adopt and implement” the proposed rule.
An Apr. 30 deadline for the presentation of a new business plan to rescue Alitalia looked set to be extended after Italian railway company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), which is expected to lead the relaunch, said it had discussed the possibility of an extension at a board meeting.
