Luckily for owners and operators across the globe, the aviation insurance market remains burdened with overcapacity that is keeping rates far lower than they should be. Premiums are hardening and will...
We always worry when there is a rush of similar mishaps with aircraft and we are at this time witnessing far too many occurrences of metal fatigue failures in many aircraft types including the older 7...
Indian low cost carrier, IndiGo has selected Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engines to power its fleet of up to 180 A320neo aircraft currently on order with Airbus. P&W president David Hess remarked that the...
American Airlines is reducing the number of flights to Japan as travel demand to the country continues to fall. The airline said it will suspend two of its six daily flights to Japan from April 6. Thi...
Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus has announced it returned to profit in 2010 following two years of operating losses. The airline recorded an operating profit before exceptional items of €57.6 million fr...
Rising wages in China have stoked domestic travel demand and IATA expects this to continue over the next five years. As a result of this growth environment, profits in China Southern Airlines rose nea...
Qatar Airways makes its Canadian debut on June 29 when it launches three weekly flights to Montreal -and the Doha-based airline sounds increasingly certain it will provide the city another boost aroun...
Moderate snowfall in December saw airport operator BAA being criticized for its poor ability to clear snow and deal with passengers at London’s Heathrow airport after all operations were. Even IATA’s ...
Hatfield, Hertfordshire…..BAE Systems has been selected by AviancaTaca – one of Latin America’s largest airline groupings – to exclusively remarket Fokker 100 jet airliners for sale. The Fokker 100s, ...
A perfect storm of natural disasters, bad weather and soaring fuel prices was blamed for an expected pre-tax loss of $80 million by Virgin Blue yesterday. As a result shares in the group comprising V...
The US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) says that it will issue an airworthiness directive (AD) today calling for 737NG operators to start periodic inspections of the thrust reverser assemblies. The m...
The cascade of crises in Japan was threatening to cause major disruptions to the country’s aviation market from the outset over a week ago but with the ongoing radiation leak taking centre stage in...
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