Airbus’ Global Market forecast (GMF) predicts that carriers in the Middle East will require 1,921 new passenger and freighter aircraft (above 100 seats) between 2011 and 2030 valued at US$347.4 billio...
Rolls-Royce has celebrated the delivery of the 1,000th Trent 700 engine to Cathay Pacific, which was the first airline to operate the Trent 700 in 1995. Since then, there are more than 1,400 engines e...
Russia’s NordStar Airlines has ordered an additional three ATR 42-600s to add to its earlier order for two ATR 42-600s and two options. The purchase of up to 7 ATR 42-600s (5 firm aircraft and 2 opt...
International Airlines Group has revised its long-term operating profit target to €1.5 billion in 2015. The increase comes on the back of a revision in the cost savings gained from the British Airways...
Qantas pilots' union, the Australian International and Pilots Association (AIPA), has launched proceedings before the Federal Court to challenge Fair Work Australia's decision to terminate its protect...
China Eastern Airlines has closed an aircraft financing for one A320-200 under a French Lease combined with Export Credit Agency (ECA) debt structure. Credit Agricole-Corporate Investment Bank (CA-CI...
Several aircraft lessors are moving to repossess their aircraft from Kingfisher Airlines for non-payment of lease rentals. The lessors have been negotiating with Kingfisher for the past few days but ...
TransAsia Airways of Taiwan has officially launched its new Hanoi-Kaohsiung route. The airline will conduct two flights on Monday and Thursday with A320 aircraft. ...
Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Aggarwal has commented that the airline remains a viable business and there is no dispute over its survival. However the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation has sent a req...
Scott Dolan, senior VP of airport operations and cargo at United Cargo, left the airline last week. Dolan follows Jim McKeon, senior director of sales at Continental Airlines Cargo, who left to becom...
Federal accident investigators have order Pinnacle Airlines, parent company of Colgan Air, to submit records regarding the qualifications of the pilots involved in the crash of Flight 3407 in 2009. Th...
Embraer has abandoned any plans to develop a narrowbody competitor to Airbus and Boeing and will focus on producing a re-engined version of its E170 and E190 families. The new versions of the E-jet fa...
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