With the Sept. 30 deadline looming for Congress to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funding, stop thousands of FAA employees from being furloughed and keep airport projects under way,...
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More traveling U.S. citizens and Canadian visitors will see expedited arrival in-country with the expansion of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Mobile Passport Control to Los Angeles I...
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U.S. airline revenue from carry-on baggage and priority boarding fees increased from $6.3 billion in 2010 to $7.1 billion in 2016, according to a recently-published report on airline fees for optional...
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Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta recently spoke at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s North American, Central American and Caribbean Directors of Civil...
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Southeast Asian airlines will require 4,210 new aircraft, valued at $650 billion, over the next 20 years, Boeing forecasts in its report, Southeast Asia Current Market Outlook. Traffic will increas...
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Japan Airlines recently announced it has placed an order for four Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners, valued at $900 million. The purchase will bring the airline’s Dreamliner fleet to 49. The order had pr...
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AAR Corp., a global aftermarket solutions company, recently agreed to purchase two aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities from Premier Aviation, a Canadian maintenance and aircraft...
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As of Sept. 1, rule-compliant Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) equipment is now installed on more than 40,000 aircraft flying in the United States, according to a recent announcement...
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AAR Corp., a global aftermarket solutions company supporting commercial and government aviation, recently signed a 10-year agreement with Air Canada to service its fleet. The agreement includes the...
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A proposal to privatize air traffic control in the United States would help facilitate modernization of the decades-old air traffic control system, a model that has seen success in Canada, argues an a...
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U.S. airlines carried an all-time high number of passengers during the first six months of 2017, totaling 414.4 million systemwide, surpassing the previous high reached in 2016, according to a recentl...
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Air passenger traffic grew 3.8 percent in 2016 and cargo traffic increased 2.4 percent, according to an Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) report. The report, 2016 North American...
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The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) recently announced it has named Eric K. Fanning president and CEO. Fanning has served more than 25 years in the military and government. His most recent ...
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Three years after the deployment of BlipTrack passenger processing technology, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) recently celebrated an award from Skytrax that named CVG as ...
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently fined Frontier Airlines $1.5 million for long tarmac delays. The fine is the second highest for violating the DOT rule. A portion of the fine, ...
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In celebration of National Aerospace Week, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) recently held a reception focusing on building national security partnerships. The featured speaker was Ambassa...
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U.S. carriers cancelled 1.1 percent of schedule domestic flights in July, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation report, the same number as June and 0.8 percent less than July 2016. The r...
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Southwest Airlines and facilities maintenance technicians, represented by Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, recently reached an agreement for the technicians’ first contract. The agreeme...
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Members of Congress must decide to take the initiative and fix the nation’s outdated aviation infrastructure or vote to support the status quo, says Chris Ward, senior vice president and chief execu...
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The Federal Aviation Association (FAA) recently announced it has created an initiative called the Future of Flight Standards to better serve aviation safety by changing the culture of flight standards...
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