Air Transport World

By Adrian Schofield
Chinese LCC Spring Airlines intends to lift its fleet total close to 100 this year with additional Airbus A320neo deliveries, and the carrier is also scheduled to begin taking A321neos in 2020.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Boeing—looking at the health of its 737 production system and supply chain while MAX deliveries are halted and monthly manufacturing slowed—has a plan for raising production rates that includes potentially helping with financing for suppliers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
A problem detected during a factory test of GE Aviation’s GE9X turbofan engine could further delay the first flight of the Boeing 777X.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Asia-Pacific carriers are still grappling with many of the issues that eroded their profitability last year, the head of the region’s major airline industry group said.

By Helen Massy-Beresford
A group of French politicians is proposing to ban some internal flights in a bid to cut carbon dioxide emissions in an amendment to a law on future mobility.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Bill Carey
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has certified Aireon to provide surveillance services in support of aircraft separations, the first such approval, the company announced June 4.
Airports & Networks

The Senate panel considering the nomination of former Delta Air Lines executive Steve Dickson to head the FAA is reviewing allegations from a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint that allege Delta management engaged in retaliation against a pilot in 2016, while Dickson was serving as SVP-flight operations.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Mike Lavitt
Nearly five years after it launched all-business class service between Paris and the New York area, niche carrier La Compagnie is providing 25% of the business class capacity between the two cities and preparing to introduce its first Airbus A321neo on June 6.
Airports & Networks

By Jack Wittman
Atlas Air Worldwide is expanding its Boeing 777F crew, maintenance and insurance (CMI) service with DHL Express and adding a third 747F for Asiana Cargo.
Airports & Networks

Global alliance SkyTeam has refocused its priorities from network expansion to customer experience enabled by technology.

By Michael Bruno
Two crashes, 346 deaths, almost three months of groundings and a steady stream of new revelations about the Boeing 737 MAX still may have not much dented the aircraft’s image in the public’s mind, a public poll run by part of investment company UBS has suggested.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jack Wittman
A Canadian real estate developer is attempting to derail Air Canada’s planned acquisition of Air Transat by making a more valuable offer for the leisure carrier’s parent company.
Airlines & Lessors

By Bradley Perrett
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is negotiating with Bombardier for an undisclosed transaction involving the CRJ regional jet, both companies said, amid reports that the Japanese company will buy the program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The Azerbaijani government-owned carrier Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) will defer deliveries of 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8 narrowbodies for five years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s Aeroflot Group has extended its hand luggage-only fares to medium-haul routes operated by Aeroflot Airline and subsidiaries Rossiya Airlines and Aurora Airlines, the group said June 4.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
Urban air mobility for the masses is not expected to take off for several years, but once it does it could become a multibillion-dollar enterprise that upends traditional aviation companies, say new consultant studies on electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
US Rep. John Garamendi (D-California), a senior member of the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee, plans to re-introduce legislation this summer that would require carriers to disclose more information about their maintenance activities to the public.
Maintenance & Training

By Graham Warwick
NASA is assessing industry proposals for flight demonstrations of electrified aircraft propulsion systems with the goal of rapidly maturing the technologies for use in commercial transports that could enter the fleet by 2035.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
MRO Briefs-June 4, 2019
Maintenance & Training

By Alan Dron
Emirates Airline will launch the world’s shortest Airbus A380 scheduled sector on July 1.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
what it describes as changing consumer habits and the increasingly strong demands for airline sustainability.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
South African carrier Comair has acquired South African leasing and cargo specialist Star Air, as part of its continuing strategy of diversification.
Airlines & Lessors

A petition circulating on Capitol Hill calling on the Trump Administration to take action on Qatar Airways over its support for Air Italy has generated a backlash from a US industry coalition including airports, cargo carriers, US travelers and New York-based JetBlue Airways.
Airports & Networks

IATA’s “Turbulence Aware” program is seeing respectable progress following the launch of the initiative in December 2018.

Hawaiian Airlines is objecting to the US Department of Transportation’s (DOT) decision to award it just one of 12 available daytime slot pairs to Tokyo Haneda Airport, arguing the route allocation proceeding revealed a “prevailing, longstanding bias against smaller air carriers.”
Safety, Ops & Regulation