The low-cost airline will launch daily flights from New York JFK starting August 29 and from Boston starting September 20.
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Committed to the certification of four aircraft (737MAX 7, 737MAX 10, 777-9, 777-8F), Boeing has also launched the ramp-up of production rates on the 737 MAX and 787, while pushing ahead with the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator and Wisk Gen6 innovation programs.
Delta Air Lines, which has yet to take delivery of 17 Airbus A330-900s and six Airbus A350-900s from previous purchases, is reportedly in the process of ordering a new batch of Airbus twin-aisle aircraft.
The new Emirates subsidiary's business cabin is based on the VUE seat from Safran Seats.
Air Algérie has just specified its needs in single-aisle and twin-aisle aircraft. Boeing 737 MAX 9 for the former and Airbus A330-900 and A350-1000 for the latter.
Thanks to the new site in Angers, Expliseat will be able to triple its industrial capacity.
The Lufthansa Group and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology are turning the Lufthansa Airbus A350-900 "Erfurt" into a flying research laboratory. The measuring probe will record more than 100 different trace gases, aerosols and cloud parameters. First flight in 2024.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Airworthiness Directive that addresses missing shims on Boeing 737 NextGeneration (NG) aircraft, namely the -600, -700, -700C, -800, -900, and -900ER, reports Aerotime.
The 14-hectare solar power plant will cover the 5,800 spaces of the airport parking lot, and produce 24 GWh per year.
Since February 27, a heavy transport plane Antonov 124-100 of the Russian company Volga-Dnepr is grounded at the Toronto airport. Following new sanctions put in place by Canada, responsibility for the aircraft will be transferred to the Ukrainian authorities. The Volga-Dnepr group is going through a very difficult period, with grounded planes, the obligation to separate 200 pilots,...
On April 12, the ADP Group demonstrated a large part of what can be done around an aircraft at Le Bourget airport in terms of low-carbon aviation, including SAF refueling and ground operations using electric vehicles.
After almost 15 years of proceedings, the Vienna Commercial Court has vindicated the position of the Austro-Arab entrepreneur Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber in the legal dispute with Austrian Airlines.
The Icelandic low-cost carrier carried 86,661 passengers in March 2023, with a load factor of 80.6%, compared to only 23,700 in March last year.
This partnership, announced in May 2022, was set up in the context of the acquisition of a 9% stake in Air France-KLM by CMA-CGM.
After 2021 and 2019, Atlanta/Hartsfield-Jackson Airport was the world's top airport in terms of traffic in 2022, with a total of nearly 93.7 million passengers, according to ACI (Airports Council International). statistics.
As of May 1, the Finnish company will discontinue its two shortest domestic routes to Tampere and Turku from Helsinki, replacing them with bus services.
The manufacturer has delivered 25 new and 11 used aircraft in 2022, and is targeting more than 40 deliveries this year.
Boom Supersonic is getting indirect support from the White House, which recently released the administration's priorities for moving America forward in aerospace. Three priorities are mentioned in the report, among them promoting connectivity and speed, with increasing speed offering another approach to improving connectivity.
ZeroAvia announced a four party agreement to develop commercial routes using its hydrogen-electric powertrain systems on routes from ZeroAvia, the leader in developing zero-emission solutions for commercial aviation, today announced a four party agreement to develop commercial routes using its hydrogen-electric powertrain systems on routes from Skellefteå Airport in North East Sweden. As part of the agreement, ZeroAvia will work with the airport, the municipal energy company Skellefteå Kraft and Braathens Regional Airlines to demonstrate flights and explore launching commercial operations.
Portugal is the first European country to reach level 4+ of the "Airport Carbon Accreditation" program developed by ACI Europe (the European branch of the Airport Council International).
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has successfully completed the first flight of a B777-300ER passenger aircraft after converting it to a freighter configuration for AerCap. IAI is currently in the final stages of the certification process for the "Big Twin" 777-300ERSF, with a firm order backlog of more than 60 aircraft expected to be delivered over the next five years.
The addition of the service, usually operated via Los Angeles, will allow Air Tahiti Nui to offer six to seven weekly frequencies between Papeete and Paris CDG all year round.
The Hong Kong-based airline received an award at the PATA Awards 2023 for its environmental initiatives, including its Fly Greener program, which allows the airline's passengers to purchase carbon offsets.
Flexjet has welcomed its first Sikorsky S-76 super-midsize helicopter to its European fleet, becoming the first private jet operator in Europe to launch an integrated helicopter division. The new service, which is being rolled out initially in the UK, aims to redefine luxury private point-to-point travel, a first in Europe. It follows a similar launch last year by the company in the US, which offers helicopter operations in the north-eastern US and Florida.
Japan Airlines will replace its Boeing 737-800 aircraft with Boeing 737MAX-8 aircraft on its domestic and regional network. JAL intends to start introducing the aircraft into its fleet from 2026.
Through sometimes very vertical roundtables, the common thread of the Arab Aviation Summit, which took place in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, was the decarbonization movement of air transport.
The French airline's summer program is marked by an increase in services to Asia, and a strengthening of services to North America and East Africa.
The new airline, the third largest Saudi carrier behind Saudia and Riyadh International Airlines (RIA) will be attached to the NEOM project and is expected to take off in late 2024 or early 2025.
The number of airports that have entered the decarbonization program has increased by 32% in 2022 compared to the previous year at one of the six levels of the program.
The new airline of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was launched on Sunday 12 March. Its CEO is Tony Douglas and the aircraft orders will be coming in soon. Riyadh Air is aiming for more than 100 destinations by 2030.
According to statistics provided by IATA, in 2022 there were a total of five air accidents resulting in the death of passengers or crew members, compared to seven in 2021.
The line, which was suspended in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, will resume on June 27 with two frequencies per week.
The airline plans to launch flights in the summer of 2023 to and from Malé-Velana airport in the Maldives with Airbus A321LR aircraft.
According to statistics from ACI-Europe (the European branch of Airports Council International), airport traffic in January 2022 is 89% of the pre-crisis level of January 2019.
The announcement of the seven new destinations as well as the return of destinations suspended during the pandemic and the reinforcement of frequencies of many routes was made at the opening of the ITB Berlin on March 7, 2023.
Microsoft Flight Simulator, the world famous flight simulator, has just added the An-225 to its paying packages. The entire amount raised will be donated by Microsoft Flight Simulator to Antonov Airlines to help finance the construction of the second An-225.
To meet the increasing demand, Lufthansa Technik is now further qualifying people who have already completed a technical or craft apprenticeship and will invest 7.5 M€ in a training center in Hamburg-Rahlstedt.
The new Joint-Venture will greatly enhance presence of ST Engineering in China, where the Group currently operates airframe MRO facilities in Guangzhou and Shanghai.
The two British airlines will restore their services by the end of the first half of 2023.
Of the 52 routes, 36 will be operated from Paris-Orly airport, with three new destinations to Cairo (Egypt), Marrakech (Morocco) and Reus (Spain).
OSAC, the French airworthiness authority, translates all its online services for English-speaking users who now benefit of a dedicated portal. They only need to create an account.
A Boeing 737 specialized in fighting forest fires has crashed in Australia. The two pilots were airlifted to a hospital with minor injuries. The aircraft was owned by Coulson Aviation, a company specializing in the provision of firefighting aircraft and helicopters.
VARO Energy could supply the Lufthansa Group with large volumes of SAF from as early as 2026, for example to the Munich airport hub.
Air France-KLM Group is taking more Airbus A350-900 and A350F aircraft, turning options into firm orders. The A350Fs will join Martinair to replace the Boeing 747Fs. On the other hand, still nothing on the A350-1000. A big weakness for the Boeing 777-9 ?
A year after Boom announced that Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, N.C., would be the site of the Overture Superfactory, Boom has now begun construction of the Overture "Superfactory," a major milestone before the aircraft's production launch in 2024.
Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse is working on systems and equipment to reduce fuel consumption, but also to contribute, at its level, to more carbon-neutral aircraft. The equipment manufacturer recently acquired a hydrogen cell installed in its test center at the Toulouse site. This new investment in test facilities will enable Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse to demonstrate the ability to generate electrical power, using fuel cells, to supply the major non-propulsive electrical systems of a new-generation single-aisle aircraft, while ensuring the thermal management of the whole (fuel cells and electrical systems).
The EES (Entry Exit System), which is intended to strengthen controls at the EU's external borders, has already been postponed several times at the request of the main players in the sector, citing a lack of preparation and allocation of sufficient staff.
The new Norwegian long-haul low-cost carrier will launch a daily service between Rome-Fiumicino and New York-JFK starting June 19.
The low-cost carrier posted a loss in the first quarter of 2022-2023 (completed Dec. 31) reduced to 133 million pounds from 213 million pounds in the same period of 2022.
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