Palo Alto-based air taxi developer Archer has secured a $1 billion aircraft commitment from United Airlines and unveiled a plan to become a publicly traded company worth $3.8 billion. Palo Alto-based air taxi developer Archer Aviation has secured a $1...
Air Arabia has managed to achieve a second profitable quarter for 2020, enabling it to contain its full-year net loss to Dhs192 million ($52 million). It turned in a fourth-quarter surplus of Dhs20 million, despite a 53% reduction in revenues,...
Emirates Airline will bounce back strongly from the Covid-19 crisis without any fundamental changes to its business model, according to the operator’s president Tim Clark, with its mix of widebody aircraft enabling it to take advantage of likely supply-side shortages in the coming...
Preliminary findings from the Sriwijaya Boeing 737-500 crash probe increasingly support an in-flight upset scenario in which the crew was suddenly caught out by the insidious development of an asymmetric thrust condition. No conclusions have been drawn over the 9...
UK carrier Virgin Atlantic has written off the normally busy Easter travel season and now expects a recovery in passenger numbers to begin in May-June, chief executive Shai Weiss has indicated. Noting that he has been forced to repeatedly push back his...
Ethiopian Airlines is making slow progress with talks regarding cooperation with South African Airways, according to the former’s chief executive Tewolde Gebremariam. Ethiopian Airlines is making slow progress with talks regarding cooperation with South African Airways (SAA), according to the...
Carriers back app which allows passengers to store and share Covid-19 vaccine and test records, and could be key to reopening international travel Around 20 airlines will from March begin trialing an IATA app that allows passengers to securely store...
African carrier Ethiopian Airlines is satisfied with modifications made to the flight-control system of the Beoing 737 Max and may bring the type back into service in the upcoming summer season, according to the carrier’s chief executive Tewolde Gebremariam. African carrier Ethiopian Airlines is satisfied with...
Indonesian investigators will focus their attention on the autothrottle system of a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 that crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta, after revealing a thrust-lever asymmetry developed during the flight. Indonesian investigators will focus...
The parent company of Mesa Airlines reported an operating profit of $27 million during its first quarter of 2021 as it plans to continue to allow its mainline customers to defer payments to aid their recovery during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The...