Aviation Daily

By Sean Broderick
The FAA isn’t known for moving quickly on many things.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
A spokesman for the airline said the airport located 60 mi. north of New York City could not handle the quantities of freight the airline was envisaging carrying.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
TAP Air Portugal will operate its entire fleet this summer but the carrier is having issues with the engines that power its fleet of Airbus A330-900s.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
ATR has undertaken the first flight of the STOL variant of the ATR 42-600 regional turboprop.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Fast-growing freight volumes in the Middle East have led Bahrain-based cargo specialist Texel Air to step up the speed of its expansion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
The capital increase comes on top of a $3.1 billion capital increase made by its owner the previous year during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Norwegian Air Shuttle expects a strong summer and plans to ramp up capacity to meet pent-up demand but the LCC warned that high fuel costs would partly offset its recovery.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
Advanced air mobility aircraft manufacturers are calling for clearer guidance from the FAA over certification requirements after the regulator signaled a change in rules governing approval for winged electric vertical-take-off-and-landing vehicles.
Advanced Air Mobility

Boeing is awaiting FAA feedback on its latest plan to get 787 deliveries re-started, and company executives are confident that its list and proposed remedies will satisfy the regulator’s requirements.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network staff
Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC) has completed the bench test of the first prototype of its PD-8 turbofan engine.
Aerospace

By Ben Goldstein
Airfares surged in April by 18.6%, according to official inflation data released May 11, as tight labor markets and rising fuel prices force carriers to raise ticket prices at the fastest rate in years.
Airlines & Lessors

The Japanese airline is restoring Airbus A380 flights to Hawaii, as well as reinstating service to London.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Seventeen years after first working together, Air France CEO Anne Rigail and incoming KLM CEO Marjan Rintel will collaborate again on key fleet decisions for the group.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Air India has selected Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson to take over the reins as the newly privatized Indian carrier’s CEO and MD.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
A Tibet Airlines Airbus A319 was severely damaged during a runway excursion May 12 at Chongqing-Jiangbei International Airport.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By David Casey
European domestic travel is expected to make a full recovery in 2022, while international arrivals will recover to 70% of 2019 levels.
Airports & Networks

By Sean Broderick
Boeing will not get the 737-10 certified in 2022, but it is confident that a looming deadline that would require a major flight-deck change will not apply to the largest 737 MAX variant.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
Complexity created by operations at a new reliever airport near Mexico City International is creating additional safety risks in the region’s airspace, industry groups warn.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Lori Ranson
Avianca has made its boldest post-bankruptcy move yet by attempting to create a mega-airline group in Latin America through a partnership with GOL to create the new entity Abra.
Airlines & Lessors

By Ben Goldstein
JetBlue Airways publicly rebutted comments from United Airlines alleging that its operational challenges this spring have contributed to increased gridlock at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), describing the remarks from United CEO Scott Kirby and COO Jon Roitman as “self-serving, yet inaccurate.”
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Boeing CFO Brian West said a slowdown in supply of a wiring connector for the 737 MAX was responsible for relatively lower April deliveries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
Turkish Airlines says it has managed to recover from the COVID-19 crisis earlier than its European competitors and reached 91% of its first-quarter (Q1) 2019 passenger capacity in Q1 2022.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
Being selected for a new-generation flight management system (FMS) on the Airbus A320, A330 and A350 is consolidating Thales’ position in the avionics market versus Collins Aerospace, GE Aviation and Honeywell.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Another established airline has backed a U.S. startup’s sea-skimming, harbor-to-harbor alternative to regional aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Hydrogen is gaining momentum as the zero-emission fuel of the future for aviation but requires massive investment in new infrastructure as well as completely new propulsion systems or aircraft designs to be used to its full potential.
Aircraft & Propulsion