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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From October 30, the French airline will open a new route between Paris CDG and Raleigh-Durham (North Carolina), and increase frequencies to Canada.
LanzaJet, producer of SAF, is a subsidiary of the American firm LanzaTech, which specializes in recycling CO2 using biotechnological processes.
The German equipment supplier will equip each of the 12 Airbus A350-1000s with the CL3810 seat, which will be used for the 140-seat economy class of the Australian airline's ultra-long-haul aircraft.
The aircraft manufacturer, specializing in turboprop engines, which delivered a total of 25 new and 11 pre-owned aircraft in 2022, is seeing a real upturn in business for the current year, and has very ambitious targets for the future.
Singapore Airlines won the title of "World's Best Airline", as well as three other awards. Its subsidiary, Scoot, was named "Best long-haul low-cost airline" and second best low-cost airline in the world, all categories combined.
Air France-KLM's MRO division has forecast total sales of 3.6 billion euros in 2022. It is looking forward to a very strong upturn in activity, and will be hiring again to cope with rising demand.
The new Saudi airline, due to begin operations in 2025, will be showing off its livery on the show's static display, and will be distilling information about its launch very gradually.
The French President, during a visit to a Safran plant in Villaroche, announced a package of aid worth several hundred million euros for the decarbonization of aviation over the period 2024-2030.
Stuart Hatcher, chief economist at IBA, a statistical research firm specializing in air transport, estimates that the number of orders could even rise to just under 3,000 if all the rumors prove true, but this is unlikely.
The U.S. airline has launched a summer program with over 650 weekly flights between the two sides of the Atlantic, with a 30% increase in seat capacity compared with the summer 2022 season.
This platform now enables Canadian travellers to combine certain Air Transat and ASL Airlines flights to fly to Algeria (Algiers, Annaba, Bejaïa), via a connection via Paris CDG or Lyon.
According to OAG statistics, low-cost airlines accounted for 32% of global seat capacity in March 2023, with large countries like India (74% of seats) where they are in the majority.
At its 79th General Assembly in Istanbul, IATA (the International Air Transport Association) announced that the global airline industry would be back in the black by the end of 2023, with an expected profit of $9.8 billion.
The main European aviation institutional organizations reaffirm their support for the "ReFuelEU Aviation" regulation, whose full and complete adoption should make it possible to set up a genuine European SAF production chain.
The seat, which is a continuation of the one presented a year ago at the Eiffel Tower to equip the French airline's Boeing 777-300ERs, was on display on the Stelia Aerospace stand at the Aircraft Interiors show in Hamburg.
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.
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