African low-cost carrier Fastjet has postponed its South African launch, which was originally planned for the end of May, until the beginning of July....More
Bogota-based AviancaTaca Holdings reported a first-quarter net income of $75.3 million, more than doubled from $34.9 million in the year-ago period....More
KLM is to take delivery of two Boeing 777-300ERs in spring 2015, one from Boeing and another from Air Lease, taking its total 777-300ER fleet to 10 aircraft....More
Chinese carriers reported a collective net income of CNY 1.4 billion in April, down D 28.3% compared with a net profit of CNY 1.953 billionfor the same month last year....More
Singapore Airlines Group (SIA) earned net income of S$379 million ($303.4 million) for its 2012-2013 fiscal year ended March 31, up 12.8% over a net profit of S$336 million in the prior fiscal year....More
Both NAV CANADA and the UK’s NATS—the world’s two most extensively privatized air navigation services providers (ANSPs)—have reported significant environmental savings. &n...More
Swiss Aviation Training (SAT), a subsidiary of Swiss International Air Lines, added an additional CAE Embraer E-190 full-flight simulator to its portfolio in Frankfurt at the Lufthansa Flight Training Center (LFT). &n...More
Chromalloy will receive $150,000 from Florida’s Quick Action Closing Fund to expand and improve its investment foundry, Chromalloy Castings, in Tampa.
Jordanian carrier Petra Airlines has signed a contract with Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance covering component support for two Airbus A320s now and a third aircraft by year end. The agreement includes flat-rate repair services and flight-hour pool access....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
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
Embraer president and CEO-commercial aviation Paulo Cesar Souza e Silva said the “second generation” E-Jet, while not an all-new aircraft, will be “much, much more than a re-engine.”...More
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