The Philippines has scrapped a multi-billion dollar project to build a mega airport outside of Manila, less than a year after it picked a Sino-Philippine consortium to develop the facility. The Philippines has scrapped a multi-billion dollar project to build...
The US Navy has begun its search to replace its fleet of MH-60R/S Seahawks and Northrop Grumman MQ-8B/C Fire Scout unmanned air vehicles. The US Navy (USN) has begun its search to replace its fleet of MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters and...
Aerospace services company AeroTec has opened a third maintenance hangar in Moses Lake, Washington and secured approvals to maintain several aircraft types. Aerospace services company AeroTec has opened a third maintenance hangar in Moses Lake, Washington and secured approvals to...
De Havilland Canada confirms it is considering “pausing” production of its Dash 8-400 turboprop amid the pandemic. De Havilland Canada confirms it is considering ”pausing” production of its Dash 8-400 turboprop amid the pandemic. The Toronto, Canada-headquartered company tells FlightGlobal...
Requiring Covid-19 tests for US domestic air passengers would be unnecessary, complex and impractical – or as one Southwest Airlines executive puts it, “a real goat rodeo”. Requiring Covid-19 tests for US domestic air passengers would be unnecessary, complex and...
Southwest Airlines lost $908 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, bringing the airline’s full-year loss to $3 billion – the first time in 47 years that the carrier ended the year in negative earnings territory. Until 2020, Southwest Airlines...
Swiss investigators have concluded, in a damning inquiry, that a Junkers Ju 52 on a pleasure flight stalled after the crew flew it into a narrow valley at low altitude, at a dangerously low airspeed and with its centre-of-gravity out...
JetBlue Airways lost $1.4 billion in 2020, but is stressing that network and fleet shifts should position it to perform well when the air travel market recovers. JetBlue Airways lost $1.4 billion in 2020, but is stressing that network and...
US regional carrier PSA Airlines has removed “most” of its fleet of MHIRJ CRJ-series regional jets from service so as to inspect nose landing-gear doors. US regional carrier PSA Airlines has removed “most” of its fleet of MHIRJ CRJ-series regional...
Europe faces a “quickly deteriorating” situation in terms of falling air traffic during the first quarter, with competing “reasonable” assumptions regarding a significant improvement or otherwise from April onwards, according to the latest short-term forecast data from Eurocontrol. Europe faces a...