UPS’s drone airline subsidiary UPS Flight Forward has embarked on a strategy of deploying autonomous and remotely operated aircraft across a range of use cases from medical delivery drones to large feeder aircraft.
Mineta was the longest-serving U.S. Transportation Secretary in the department’s history and a difference-making advocate for the nation’s aviation system.
Eurowings CEO Jens Bischof said the focus on Miles and More resulted from the carrier’s positioning as a value airline for Europe, a step related to its strategy to become a pan-European airline with bases in several countries.
Lufthansa subsidiary Air Dolomiti has become the first Italian airline approved to execute Required Navigation Performance-Authorization Required (RNP-AR) approaches to land in Innsbruck, Austria.
Lufthansa is slowly warming up to the idea of potentially reactivating its Airbus A380 fleet, should strong demand growth be sustained over the next few years.
Air France-KLM reported strong bookings as it posted a narrowed net loss for the first quarter, despite the effects of the omicron variant, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and high fuel prices.
While the French aerospace industry has long experienced difficulties in hiring to meet its needs in production, the problem has become more acute in the tail end of the COVID-19 crisis.
Spirit AeroSystems, the leading supplier of aircraft subsystems to Boeing, this week reached production of 31 737 MAX shipsets a month and expects to stay there
Airbus is going ahead with the long-debated further increase in its single-aisle output over the next three years and is delaying entry-into-service of the A321XLR by a few months.
Kenya Airways Group MD and CEO Allan Kilavuka has outlined three phases for his carrier’s strategic cooperation with South African Airways (SAA), spanning the period to the end of 2023.
Convincing U.S. lawmakers to revisit the 2010 law that required the FAA to boost minimum flight hours for airline pilots to 1,500 hr. will require a unified push backed with data to support revised standards, executives from two major carriers said.
Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways have joined Boeing, Safran, Panasonic Avionics and U.S. IT company Riverbed Technology in the Seamless Air Alliance (SAA), which aims to make it easier for passengers to access inflight connectivity.
Korean Air managed to post impressive profits in the 2022 first quarter (Q1), with freight operations again a major factor and passenger services starting to make more gains as well.
Canadian regional aviation specialist Chorus Aviation has completed its acquisition of UK-headquartered lessor Falko Regional Aircraft, triggering investment firm Brookfield Asset Management to take a 12.5% stake in Chorus, as planned.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is not operating its services to London and Paris because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent airspace restrictions.
FAA Flight Standards Service executive director David Boulter will take the agency’s top civil-service safety job on an interim basis when current acting associate administrator for Aviation Safety Chris Rocheleau leaves government service at the end of May.
