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Spirit AeroSystems, based in Wichita, has added equipment, and created a 3- and 4-axis machining center of excellence at its McAlester, Oklahoma, facility, to support new, detailed parts-fabrication work.

Air Transat will be the first North American carrier to operate the A321LR, Airbus said.

Airlines and regulators are quickly running out of time to find answers for the multiple legal questions raised by Brexit, industry officials warned at a European Parliament hearing in Brussels.

Canada and Thailand have signed an updated air-transport agreement that removes limits on the airlines that can fly between the countries, and the cities they can serve.

Embraer said its total orders and commitments announced at the Paris Air Show “could reach 51 aircraft and roughly $3 billion."

Chinese narrowbody aircraft operator Donghai Airlines proposes to open the first scheduled services between China and Darwin in northern Australia, a tourism market.

The European Parliament’s environment committee has voted to keep international flights exempt from paying for emissions under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme until the end of 2020.

Leslie Thng is chief commercial officer of SIA subsidiary Budget Aviation Holdings, which is the umbrella company for LCCs Scoot and Tigerair.

Virgin Australia is considering launching its own service to Samoa after its joint venture with the Samoan government is terminated in November.

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Lessor BOC Aviation is to open a New York office, which will be headed by airline leasing and sales (Americas) Executive Vice President Matt Baumgarth.

Let’s toast U.S. open-skies policy on its silver anniversary and reject Delta’s invitation for U.S. consumers to sing the Canadian blues.

Airbus and Veritas Capital Fund Management, the owners of StandardAero, have started negotiating a possible sale of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firm Vector Aerospace.

The owner of an international hotel chain has proposed an alternative expansion plan for London’s Heathrow Airport in a bid to eliminate the risk involved in bridging the third runway over a major road.

Besides the two new services, Delta Air Lines has announced 10 new markets from Boston this year.

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport has installed a drone detection radar, following a sighting that forced London Gatwick Airport to divert flights.

Airbus’s July 5 announcement of a contract with the Chinese government for 140 commercial aircraft appears to include already ordered aircraft.

Eurowings will base three Airbus A330-200s, which currently reside at Cologne Bonn Airport, in Munich.

This will mean passengers will not have to manually enter passport information.

While Thailand is pushing the ICAO to conduct a follow-up audit to address safety concerns, the agency will first undertake a review of the country’s aviation security.among

The airline will be renamed Samoa Airways, and will use the certificate of existing turboprop carrier Polynesian Airlines.

Cathay Pacific has reached an agreement to buy DHL’s minority stake in cargo carrier Air Hong Kong, which would shift it from a joint venture to a full subsidiary of Cathay.