The British government is planning to introduce airline insolvency reform legislation in a bid to strengthen consumer protections and provide more oversight of distressed carriers.
Indian Ocean equity partners Air Austral and Air Madagascar plan to procure six Airbus A220-300 to unify their short- and mid- haul fleet renewals, starting with an initial firm order for three.
A new alliance of government, aerospace and manufacturing organizations is promoting creation of a commercially operated civilian supersonic corridor to allow developers of supersonic transports to flight-test their aircraft over land.
Aero Engine Corp. of China (AECC) has produced turbine-engine parts in ceramic matrix composite (CMC), a material that offers low weight and high resistance to temperature.
The European Commission (EC) has cleared the way for a government-backed emergency loan to leisure carrier Condor, giving the company much-needed financing for the winter season and more time to find a new investor.
Accenture’s aerospace and defense practice now sees the overall 2019 commercial aerospace market growing only 2.5% year-over-year, compared with 4.7% in 2018.
A task force of global civil aviation regulators has found gaps in the FAA’s certification process that contributed to insufficient reviews of the Boeing 737 MAX flight control system, and made a dozen recommendations aimed at ensuring the aircraft’s airworthiness and improving the agency’s product-approval requirements.
Norwegian Air Shuttle said it would boost frequencies to some of its U.S. destinations from London next summer in response to demand, but will reduce flights to Buenos Aires, Miami, Rio de Janeiro and Orlando, Florida.
Triumph Group’s continued breakup to the benefit of TECT Aerospace has rolled along with a deal for Triumph’s assembly operations in Nashville, Tennessee.
Raytheon and United Technologies shareowners “overwhelmingly” approved all proposals necessary to complete the merger of UTC’s aerospace businesses—Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney—with Raytheon, the companies announced Oct. 11.
Air France is looking at ways to “comfortably densify the economy cabins” as it seeks a competitive response to the threat of long-haul low-cost carriers (LCCs), according to Air France-KLM EVP Angus Clarke.
Narrowbody aircraft capable of long-haul flying will open substantial new market opportunities to low cost airlines, industry executives said at the CAPA Low-Cost Long-Haul Global Summit here.
American Airlines plans an overhaul of its executive team overseeing operations and customer service, following a tumultuous summer marked by a spike in delays and cancellations.
Airlines have inspected 810 older Boeing 737NGs for cracked fuselage parts and turned up issues on 38 aircraft as of Oct. 9, the company said, adding it is working with customers to develop plans and procure parts for aircraft with discrepancies.
Porsche has become the latest carmaker to embrace urban air mobility (UAM), signing an MOU with Boeing to study product development for the premium market for personal air vehicles.
Shares in Delta Air Lines stumbled Oct. 10 as investors brushed aside record third-quarter (Q3) revenue to focus instead on higher expectations for Q4 non-fuel unit costs.
Sustainable energy company Velocys says it will be able to produce “negative-emissions” fuels, after striking a deal to capture and store the carbon dioxide that will be generated by the biomass-to-fuel plant it is planning to build in Mississippi.
European regional carriers are expecting a difficult operating environment to continue, with macroeconomic and political uncertainty as well as hefty fuel bills all causing headaches for smaller carriers in a region that has seen four airline collapses in the past month.
