Rolls-Royce has won an order from US leasing company CIT Aerospace for Trent XWB engines to power 10 Airbus A350 XWB aircraft, and Trent 700 engines to power 13 Airbus A330 aircraft....More
US transportation secretary-nominee Anthony Foxx told Congress that modernizing and building up the country’s transportation infrastructure, including implementing the NextGen air traffic control system, will be a top priority during his tenure heading the Dept. of Transportation (DOT)....More
Air Berlin, which is cutting 900 jobs as part of its Turbine savings program, will transfer more than 50 pilots to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways as the German carrier reduces its fleet and its majority shareholder prepares for international expansion....More
Turkish Airlines is planning to increase the number of Russian routes pending an agreement with Russian aviation authorities on destinations, the carrier’s Russia representative Mefail Deribas said....More
Aeromexico has added three Embraer E-175 aircraft to its fleet, making it the first national airline in the country to operate this modern aircraft....More
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
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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