Airbus and Boeing have thrown their support behind delaying the already pushed-back Jan. 5, 2022 rollout of 5G C-band transmissions in the U.S. while the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) consider a “safety proposal” developed by aviation stakeholders.
U.S. carriers are planning for the winter holidays to be the busiest travel period since the start of the pandemic, a sign that initial fears of a broader slowdown triggered by the omicron coronavirus variant may have been overblown.
Express cargo carrier UPS has ordered 19 767-300F freighters, marking a key extension to the twinjet’s extended backlog and further boosting Boeing’s already record setting year for both production and conversion cargo aircraft orders.
Time is running short for Russia’s Irkut Corporation to complete the 700 hr. flight test program of its new MC-21 narrowbody airliner and obtain a Russian type certificate by the end of 2021.
Low-cost, long-haul startup Norse Atlantic Airways (Norse) has taken delivery in Oslo of its first Boeing 787-9, as it prepares to launch services in spring 2022.
The trade body representing UK-registered airlines has again called on the country’s government for financial assistance, as repercussions from the omicron coronavirus variant choke off demand for flights.
The merger values the electric air taxi developer at $2.4 billion, a price backed up by the largest conditional orderbook in the advanced air mobility market.
India’s competition oversight agency has approved the government’s sale of Air India to the Tata Group, representing an important step in completing the acquisition process.
The energy requirements of future aircraft must be reduced by at least half by 2050 if aviation is to achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century, according to a new aviation strategy adopted by German national aviation research agency DLR.
Europe is expanding its technology base for hydrogen propulsion as the region’s industry pushes to field zero-emissions commercial aircraft by the mid-2030s.
Southwest Airlines plans to grow its fleet by about 85 aircraft in 2022, but its order-book flexibility and plethora of older aircraft it could park gives it flexibility to increase or decrease the figure based on market conditions, company executives said.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Harbour Air Seaplanes has begun modifying a second de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver to electric propulsion and will begin certification flight testing in 2022.
Qatar Airways has moved to suing Airbus in front of the Technology and Construction division of the High Court in London in the ongoing dispute over the surface degradation on a large number of the airline’s A350s.
The spread of the omicron coronavirus variant has sparked the introduction of new restrictions, including tightened travel rules in many European countries, threatening airlines’ activities as the 2021 Christmas holiday travel season gets underway.
As research and technology work on single-pilot operations may crystallize in new commercial freighters and large business jets, removing one pilot from the cockpit should be done conservatively, a safety specialist says.
