Farnborough International Airshow News

Irish regional Aer Arann has taken delivery of its first of eight ATR 72-600s...

Etihad Airways’ president and CEO James Hogan has numbers at his fingertips that speak of ambition, growth and deliverability. In 2012, the Abu Dhabi-based carrier recorded a $42 million profit, 200% higher than the previous year; revenues increased 17% to $4.8 billion; passenger numbers grew 23% to...

Like the music after which it is named, Canada’s largest regional airline is versatile and adaptable, operating a diverse fleet of aircraft on one of the more distinctive route networks in the world. Flying as far south as US cities Houston and New Orleans and as far north as remote Canadian...

Latvian-based Air Baltic will grow its Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 NextGen fleet from eight to 12 this summer, to be phased in between May and July...

The Boeing Company’s previously announced plan to consolidate flight training and certain operations from Seattle to the Boeing Flight Services training campus in Miami will affect approximately 38 positions...

It was the aviation news of 2012 that received far too little attention. Airbus’s top brass acknowledged publicly, to a room full of reporters at the Farnborough Airshow no less, that there will be no all-new narrowbody commercial aircraft entering the market for at least another 18 years...

In its services market outlook, Boeing identifies a total market of almost $2.4 trillion over the next 20 years. The market for services is projected to grow by approximately 4% annually over the term of the outlook...

If the global economy is still in the doldrums, someone forgot to tell attendees at the 2012 Farnborough Airshow in July. Airbus alone logged sales at the show valued at a list-price total of $16.5 billion and which included 26 A350-1000s for Cathay Pacific, 20 A321s for Russia’s UTair and a...

The airline industry’s booming growth in emerging market regions combined with a safety record that far outshines any other transportation mode poses new challenges for those in the training and safety business...

Athar Husain Khan was promoted to AEA Acting Secretary General in June. He joined AEA in 2007 as general manager, infrastructure, following seven years in management roles at KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. At AEA he has overseen progress on key dossiers, including the association’s competitiveness...