The IATA is coordinating efforts to ensure airlines, airport operators, air traffic control (ATC) authorities and other key aviation stakeholders communicate critical information better when there is an incident that causes severe operational disruption at a major airport.
Greater New York airports currently handle over 130 million passengers annually, but this figure is expected to rise to 180 million yearly passengers over the next two decades.
The biometric facial-recognition trial at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) has proven so successful and popular that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is actively exploring how widely facial recognition can be used at airports, a senior CBP official said.
Reflecting a 20% year-over-year (YOY) increase in volumes and a 17% rise in full-year revenue, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings posted a $223.5 million net profit for 2017—a fivefold increase over the Purchase, New York-based airfreight carrier’s $41.5 million net income for 2016.
Israeli startup Eviation Aviation has selected South Korea’s Kokam to supply lithium-polymer batteries for its initial Alice all-electric regional aircraft, and hopes to fly a full-scale prototype by early 2019.
Aeromexico and Delta Air Lines will offer nonstop service between Detroit and Leon, Mexico, starting April 30, connecting two major automotive-industry regions and taking another step in leveraging their joint venture (JV).
Mexico City-based ultra LCC Volaris, faced with an extremely competitive low cost market combined with fluctuating currency exchange rates, posted a MXP595 million ($30.2 million) full-year net loss for 2017, a reversal of the airline’s MXP3.5 billion net profit in 2016.
The Qantas Group has confirmed it will take delivery of 18 Airbus A321neo long-range (A321LR) aircraft beginning in mid-2020, which will be used by its Jetstar LCC subsidiary for fleet replacement and growth.
These dates indicate program slippage of more than a year from the 2016 schedule and three years from the targets that Avic set when it launched development of the aircraft at the end of 2013.
Air New Zealand plans to launch a nonstop flight from Auckland to Taipei, Taiwan, as the latest step in its strategy of growing its Pacific Rim destinations.
A solid fourth quarter performance in passenger revenue and cost containment pushed Panama City-based Copa Holdings toward a $370 million net profit for 2017, a 10.6% increase from the company’s $335 million net income in 2016.
PARIS—The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has taken an important step towards building a regulatory framework to govern the use of drones in the region’s airspace.
Declaring that a “compelling public safety need exists,” the Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is calling on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to expedite the development of international standards for regulating small drones.
The president of the largest North American airline pilots’ union in a Feb. 21 speech argued that strict pilot training and qualification requirements have helped prevent passenger fatalities among U.S. airlines for nine straight years.
General Electric (GE) and longtime engineering simulation software provider Ansys have a new, “multiyear” agreement that helps in part with multi-physics solutions in ground-based and on-wing gas turbine engines.
If Boeing builds a new midmarket aircraft (NMA), it will not look much different for people who fly in it—but it will look a whole lot different to the people who build it, Boeing’s top executive said Feb. 21.
CFM, the GE Aviation/Safran Aircraft Engines (SAE) joint venture, has named Sébastien Imbourg executive vice president, replacing François Bastin, who has been appointed executive vice president of commercial engine programs for SAE.
Pratt & Whitney is reverting to a previous configuration of its PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) engine’s high pressure compressor (HPC) aft hub knife-edge seal to get its production line moving again and fix in-service engines affected by issues with the modified design.
The October 2017 collision between a small unmanned aircraft and a Beech King Air operating a commercial charter flight into Quebec City highlights the risks that unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) pose to Canadian airspace users, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) warned.
