SkyWest Inc., the Utah-based parent of regionals SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet, has signed a firm order for 40 Embraer E-175 aircraft, which will be operated under a capacity purchase agreement (CPA) with United Airlines....More
Boeing said its 747-8 Intercontinental completed its first four-hour test flight this week with a package of performance improvements including enhanced GE engines....More
Kuwait Airways chairman Sami al-Nasef said the airline has “signed a letter of acceptance with Airbus” to purchase 25 aircraft, according to reports from Kuwait City....More
Qantas subsidiary QantasLink will increase its Boeing 717 fleet operated by Cobham Aviation Services from 13 to 18, in an AUD$150 million ($148.3 million) contract extension....More
Southwest Airlines has converted 30 existing Boeing 737NG firm orders to 30 firm orders for the 737 MAX 7, becoming the launch customer for the MAX 7, the smallest version of the re-engined Boeing narrowbody family....More
Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) reported a 2012 net loss of RUB5.6 billion ($178 million), narrowed from a RUB13.35 billion loss year-over-year....More
The US should look to what’s happening at airports worldwide and think bigger and more strategically about how its airports can best raise the investments necessary to keep them competitive on a global scale, the head of the Airports Council International said Monday....More
Governments must put more political will into sorting out air traffic management mega-projects and also addressing the political issue of finding a global agreement for emission market-based-measures (MBMs), the head of IATA said Monday....More
Airbus, Air Canada and BioFuelNet Canada have formed a partnership to assess Canadian solutions for the production of sustainable jet fuels with a long-term goal of supplying Air Canada....More
US regional airlines are increasingly concerned about a potential pilot shortage that could curtail their growth or even force carriers to decrease capacity....More
Preliminary results of a pilot fatigue study conducted by Washington State University (WSU) show there is a “small difference” between the fatigue level of pilots conducting multi-segment operations and those flying a longer single segment....More
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