FAA wants to revoke license of “reckless” Executive Air Express
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is threatening to revoke Executive Air Express air carrier…
Disoriented contractor prompts A300F takeoff abort in Heathrow
A driver, who became disoriented, accidentally entered a runway in London’s Heathrow Airport (LHR), prompting the air traffic…
Embraer starts flight tests of final E2 jet
Embraer has begun flight testing the third and final, member of the E-jets E2 family, the Embraer E175-E2.…
Ryanair averted grounding third of fleet over maintenance
Back in 2018, Ryanair was facing a grounding of approximately a third of its fleet over a problem…
Introducing Aviadvigatel PD-14: engine to power MC-21
The Irkutsk Aviation Plant has completed assembly of a new MC-21-300 aircraft fuselage. While the fuselage is the…
Network cuts leave Norwegian’s traffic down by over a fifth
Norwegian Air Shuttle total traffic dropped by 23% as it cut capacity by 27% in November 2019. However,…
Garuda Indonesia CEO to be sacked over smuggled Harley Davidson
Ari Askhara, the CEO of Garuda Indonesia, is facing the prospect of being sacked from the job. In…
United Airlines CEO to step down
Oscar Munoz, the Chief Executive Officer of the United Airlines, is stepping down in May 2020, to be…
Qantas flies Boeing 747 to U.S. for the last time
Qantas has ended its last remaining Boeing 747 service between the United States and Australia. On December 4,…
BREAKING: Norwegian axes Argentinian subsidiary
Norwegian Air Shuttle is selling its Argentinian subsidiary Norwegian Air Argentina (NAA) to JetSMART Airlines, as it struggles…
United still confused about A350XWB, pushes deliveries to 2027
United Airlines is deferring Airbus A350XWB order once again, this time pushing first deliveries from 2020 to 2027.…
HNA Group granted $568M loan, will Hong Kong Airlines get share?
HNA Group has been granted a $568 million (HK4.4 billion yuan) loan by state-owned banks. The conglomerate now…
Emirates to lose $375M worth Boeing 777 over 22K claim?
Recent reports by Nigerian media suggest a curious case of a court battle. The supreme court of the…
Nine people perish as Pilatus PC-12 crashes in South Dakota
A Pilatus PC-12 crashed in a cornfield near Chamberlain, South Dakota, United States, claiming the lives of nine…
Airbus A220 program reaches 100th airplane produced
Airbus has marked a new milestone in the A220 program ‒ the 100th aircraft produced for a customer.…
FlyDubai reacts to FS981 crash final report
Three years after the fatal FlyDubai flight FS981 went down in Rostov-on-Don (Russia), the accident investigators have finally…
Cash-stripped Atlas Global halts all flights for month
AtlasGlobal, Turkish airline with headquarters in Istanbul, is suspending flights until mid-December 2019, due to difficult financial situation. The…
Final report into flyDubai 2016 crash released
The final report of FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crash in Russia in 2016 rules the loss of control in…