“We carried nearly a quarter more [long-haul] passengers compared to last year while increasing our load factor and revenue per seat,” CEO Christoph Mueller says. “We target further profitable growth of our long-haul business into 2015.” Aer Lingus’s long-haul revenues rose 34% in the three months through September compared to the same period last year, while short-haul revenue rose 5.5%.

Finnair is the first European carrier to operate the new Airbus widebody and has high hopes that the aircraft will restore its competitiveness.

Aviation Week recently ‘test drove’ Rockwell Collins’s Fusion touchscreen flight deck on a Beechcraft King Air 250.

Three words best describe a suite of new software tools Honeywell is building for its Primus Epic integrated flight decks: seamless situational awareness.

Europe’s two biggest legacy airlines are focusing on how to make up for strike-related losses.

Six years after its reorganization into specialist subsidiaries, Avic is handling a wide range of civil aircraft programs, with a remarkable number of mostly secretive engine developments also coming into view. It still has challenges, however, beginning with its sheer size: it has 400,000 employees, many working in fields unrelated to building aircraft.

Eastern Air Lines, a new airline based in Miami, Florida, using the same name and logo as the original Eastern Air Lines that operated 1930-1991, has had its first aircraft painted.

The impact of EU Regulation 261/2004 covers care and assistance, and sometimes compensation as well, in cases of denied boarding, flight delays and cancellations. This legislation is not limited to EU airlines only as it also extends to all airlines of any country that operates from the EU.