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Oneworld alliance partners Iberia and Alaska Airlines are seeking permission to codeshare on almost 80 routes operated by the Seattle-based carrier from Los Angeles (LAX) and San Francisco (SFO).

While benefitting from a strong brand and loyal customer base, van der Werff said SAS had been “inward-looking” as it dealt with recent challenges.

The carrier, based in the French overseas department of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, has been hit hard by travel restrictions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Netherlands aerospace center Royal NLR is conducting a series of flights with an electric aircraft under an initiative to help airports gain knowledge on the feasibility, potential and handling of electric-powered aircraft.

GE Aviation and Safran have defined the framework for developing their future technology as Pratt and Rolls prepare their own path.

Southwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines announced plans to increase their employee hiring targets, part of an effort to address staffing shortages amid a strong U.S. domestic summer travel season.

The carrier is now able to add points in the U.S. to its long-haul network.

TAP Air Portugal is making headway with its turnaround, phasing out five older aircraft and cutting its workforce by 16%, as it awaits a European Commission (EC) ruling on its restructuring plan.

Boeing booked $1 billion in online parts sales from Jan. 1 through June 15, the fastest it has reached the mark during a calendar year, as expanded offerings overcame a slump in commercial orders linked to the global airline downturn.

Porter Airlines has upgraded and upgauged the cabins in each of its 29 De Havilland Dash 8-400s ahead of its restart next week, installing new, slimmer seats that enabled the airline to add a row in each.

The EU’s suggestion to remove the U.S. from its safe list, as COVID-19 infections among Americans rise, is yet another blow to airlines that have been hoping for a long-haul recovery to match their summer short-haul boost.

Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing have signed an MOU aimed at boosting aviation skills and capabilities in Addis Ababa over the coming three years.

Alitalia’s successor plans to launch four long-haul routes to the U.S. later this year.

A slower than anticipated recovery from the pandemic has seen the company operating Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) significantly scale back the number of passengers it expects to handle in 2021.

Norwegian Air Shuttle is expecting a trend of increasing forward bookings to continue throughout the rest of 2021 and through 2022.

Australia’s Regional Express (Rex) appears to be delaying plans to expand the new narrowbody jet service that it introduced on Australian domestic trunk routes earlier in 2021.

Harbour Air, MagniX and H55 have completed the preliminary design review on their electric propulsion modification for the 1940s-vintage de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver.

Airbus has scooped up UK leisure carrier Jet2 as a new customer after the Boeing 737 and 757 operator agreed to acquire 36 Airbus A321s.

The government-owned carrier made its first low-cost flight from Tashkent to Moscow on Aug. 30.

For one large commuter airline in the U.S., the lessons it is learning as the launch operator of a new conventionally powered aircraft could prove invaluable as it embraces electric aircraft.

Robert Mehrabian will resume his role as Teledyne's chairman, president and chief executive officer after current officeholder Al Pichelli retires on Oct. 15.

Collins Aerospace, already one of the largest commercial aerospace suppliers—let alone as part of Raytheon Technologies—is buying high-profile flight tracking data provider FlightAware.

Rolls-Royce says the gearbox assembly in development for the heart of the company’s new high bypass demonstrator engine has set a record-breaking level of power transmission during preinstallation checkout tests.

Will the growing wave of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing be good or bad for publicly traded commercial aviation companies?

Rolls-Royce says the gearbox assembly in development for the heart of the company’s new high-bypass demonstrator engine has set a record-breaking level of power transmission during pre-installation check-out tests.