The belabored spinoff of Rockwell Collins’ actuators, pilot controls and special products business has held up the consummation of Rockwell’s buyout by United Technologies, its chief executive told analysts recently.
Aspiring Canadian ULCC Jetlines recently submitted its operations manuals to Transport Canada, completing the next major step in its bid to launch services next year.
Irish LCC Ryanair has formed a partnership with the Cork-based Atlantic Flight Training Academy (AFTA) to train up to 450 Ryanair pilots over the next five years.
China Southern Airlines wants its fleet to include about 150 widebody, long-haul aircraft by 2020 as the airline seeks to broaden its route network. And, the carrier wants to increase its total fleet to 1,000 by 2020.
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The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Sept. 14 announced new sanctions targeting a Thai aviation firm accused of working with Iran’s Mahan Air, an airline previously designated for its role in ferrying fighters and weapons into Syria.
Mexican LCC Interjet Airlines, the only operator of Sukhoi Superjets in the Americas, is planning to phase out some of its 22 Superjet 100s as part of a fleet restructuring and overall strategic growth plan through 2021 announced Sept. 14.
As engine makers jostle for pole position on Boeing’s proposed new midmarket airplane (NMA), the General Electric-Safran joint venture company CFM is in “active dialog” with the airframer in hopes of securing a sole-source deal.
The new airport serving China’s capital will be called Beijing Daxing International Airport, following the country’s usual geographic naming convention.
PARIS–Air France-KLM’s new CEO starts work Sept. 17, ending a four month-period in which the airline group was without a permanent boss after an escalating labor conflict at Air France led to the departure of his predecessor.
The French air accident investigation agency BEA is evaluating whether to launch a new radar search for parts buried beneath the Greenland ice cap that could provide clues as to why an Air France Airbus A380 suffered an uncontained engine failure in September 2017.
Aerospace giant Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) has struck a deal to acquire U.S.-based nacelle manufacturer MRA Systems from General Electric.
American Airlines Chairman and CEO Doug Parker is confident the carrier can ride out the current rise in fuel prices and its effect on profits, telling attendees at the Airlines for America 2018 Summit in Washington “the reality is you need to adapt . . . we need, as oil prices rise, to do everything we can to make sure that our earnings stay at the same levels.”
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary Elaine Chao called on a cross-section of aviation stakeholders to team up to tackle the ongoing dearth of qualified pilots, technicians and mechanics, saying that solving the aviation workforce shortage goes “beyond what government can do alone.”
A United Airlines Boeing 787 is to fly from San Francisco to Zurich on Sept. 14-15 powered by a blend of biojet fuel derived from carinata, an oilseed crop that can be grown in rotation with food crops.
Air Lease executive chairman Steve Udvar-Házy said Boeing is carefully weighing engine options for Boeing’s new midmarket airplane (NMA) and seems on pace to launch the program in mid-2019.
