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Facing a deadline that would require major changes to uncertified 737 MAX variants, Boeing continues to argue the status quo—and keeping the family as similar as possible—is the safer course of action.

The ability of U.S. airlines to pass along higher costs for fuel and labor through increased fares may have hit its limit in April.

Transport Canada plans to conduct a public interest assessment of WestJet’s plans to acquire Sunwing Vacations and Sunwing Airlines.

Honeywell is developing a suite of alternative navigation technologies to combat increasing disruption of GPS signals, intentional and unintentional, with the first products planned to be on the market in 2023.

Norwegian LCC newcomer Flyr is open to potential partnerships with other airlines, including interline agreements and codeshares.

Norwegian regional airline Wideroe is looking to add up to five more De Havilland Canada DHC8-400s by 2023 and is considering another three Embraer E-Jets, although this depends on fuel prices.

Airlines for Europe (A4E) has estimated that the European Commission’s Fit for 55 proposal—a wide-ranging package of sustainability regulations—could cost the industry €34.4 billion ($36.3 billion) per year by 2050.

To accommodate a potential surge in passenger handling demand in the coming months, Singapore’s Changi Airport will partially reopen Terminal 2 (T2) starting May 29.

UK LCC easyJet has added “Climate Change Transition” as a specific item on its corporate-risk register, highlighting the growing significance of sustainability to airline operations.

Big pilots’ unions say the challenge to finding qualified flight crew member is a money problem.

China’s two largest airlines are not providing a clear roadmap on their future with the Boeing 737 MAX, offering no indications on when the aircraft may return to service, or even if they will take deliveries at all.

With aviation facing a growing sustainability challenge, the Lindbergh Foundation and XPrize Foundation have come together to launch the Forever Flight Alliance. Their goal is to accelerate the decarbonization of aviation through incentive prizes.

United Airlines believes that aircraft availability in the short term continues to be a challenge, and that the timing of its substantial narrowbody order in 2021 was extremely favorable for the company.

Thai AirAsia X (TAAX) has become the latest Southeast Asian carrier to file for court-supervised rehabilitation in order to restructure its debts.

In its latest round of sanctions aimed at Russian entities in the wake of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the UK government has barred three Russian airlines from raising cash by selling their slots at UK airports.

EasyJet has set itself an interim carbon emissions target of 35% by 2035.

Longstanding Airbus avionics supplier Honeywell says its new generation flight management system (FMS) will be offered on all future A320, A330 and A350 airliners from late 2026 onward.

Aerostructures supplier Daher has partnered with the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology to develop a welding technology for the assembly of primary aircraft substructures made from thermoplastic composites.

Swedish airport operator Swedavia plans to reopen Terminal 4 at Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) to handle increased travel in time for an expected summer rush.

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plans to cut around 4,000 flights from its schedules at the height of the northern hemisphere summer season.

Air France-KLM has begun exclusive discussions with Apollo Global Management over the injection of €500 million ($527 million) of capital into an engine subsidiary, in the airline group’s latest step toward repaying its COVID-19 related state aid.

Filipino LCC Cebu Pacific is planning to launch so-called ‘green routes’ in 2025 as part of its drive to introduce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) into the airline.

Avion Express Partners sees Africa as a future potential wet-lease market that can help mitigate the European seasonality capacity gap. Vilnius

Almost three months on from the initial shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the long-term impacts of the ongoing conflict on commercial aviation and aerospace are becoming clearer.

Cultivating a diversity of perspectives is particularly important now, as the aviation industry.