Carriers flying in Europe have yet to adopt the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), the continent’s satellite-based augmentation system for the GPS signal, according to Eurocontrol’s director of European civil-military aviation (DECMA).
Despite a MYR3.1 billion ($741.8 million) in revenue, an increase of 18% year-on-year (YOY), AirAsia Group Berhad still ended the 2019 third quarter with a MYR67 million net loss, reversing the MYR804 million profit in Q3 2018.
The European Union (EU) failed to prove it fixed illegal subsidies of Airbus A380 and A350 XWB production, the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced Dec. 2, dispelling the assertion that the A380’s eventual wind-down settles that part of the long-running large aircraft dispute with the US and Boeing.
Munich-based MTU Aero Engines is projecting high-single-digit increases in its key commercial engine production and MRO segments in 2020, continuing current-year trends that point to steady new-production and aftermarket services demand.
South African Airways (SAA) “cannot continue in its current form” and will need a “radical restructuring,” the country’s minister of public enterprises, Pravin Gordhan, said Dec. 2.
Low-cost, long-haul carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle said it has been given three takeoff and three landing slots at London’s Heathrow Airport for the summer 2020 season, but did not say what routes the slots could be used for.
With the merger with Vanilla Air complete, Japanese LCC Peach Aviation is now looking to hire more pilots as it works to expand its capacity and network.
Russia´s Aeroflot Group reported a third-quarter net income of RUB29 billion ($450 million), more than doubled from RUB12.9 billion in the same period last year.
Hong Kong’s Air Transport Licensing Authority (ATLA) is giving Hong Kong Airlines (HKA) until Dec. 7 to find either a new investor or avenue to inject cash into airline operations, or risk having its license revoked or suspended.
Eurowings continues consolidation efforts, with no further expansion plans until the Lufthansa LCC subsidiary’s expected return to profitability in 2021.
Cathay Pacific Airways plans to make further cuts in capacity next year as it continues to grapple with a demand slowdown prompted by Hong Kong’s civil unrest.
Tens of thousands of drone enthusiasts in the UK risk a £1,000 ($1,264) fine if they fail to register by Nov. 30, the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has warned.
Thales is proceeding with development of its Pureflyt flight management system (FMS) that is designed to make the most of connectivity and simplify the crew's job during a flightpath change.
FAA will take over issuing airworthiness and export certificates for the hundreds of undelivered Boeing 737 MAXs once the agency permits the aircraft’s return to service.
The fatal crash of a flydubai Boeing 737-800 at Rostov-on-Don, Russia, in 2016 occurred because of incorrect aircraft configuration and crew piloting, according to the final report by Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).
Italy’s Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport will shut down operations for nearly 40 days beginning Feb. 3, 2020, for runway renovation works. Aircraft operations are scheduled to resume March 13.
Lufthansa has sold the European portion of its LSG Group catering unit to Swiss-base Gategroup, its first step toward exiting the airline catering business segment altogether.
Emirates Airline and Indian LCC SpiceJet have signed a codeshare and interline agreement. From early 2020, the codeshare agreement—SpiceJet’s first—covers routes common to both airlines from Dubai to Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kochi and Delhi.
Norwegian Air Shuttle is ending flights from Copenhagen and Stockholm to the US and Thailand as part of a broader shake-up of its network to improve profitability.
Plans to significantly reduce South African Airways’ (SAA) workforce have been put on hold until the end of January 2020 as part of an agreement with unions to end a strike.
