Embraer announced that the Company has signed a long-term Pool Program Agreement with Mongolian Hunnu Air to support a wide range of repairable components for the airline’s recently leased fleet of E190. Hunnu Air is the first E190 operator…
Startup low-cost airline LEVEL has grown rapidly since it was established in 2017 within International Airlines Group (IAG). FTE spoke to LEVEL’s Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Aurelius Noell, who shared how the airline is taking advantage of the strategic…
Airport trade body ACI Europe’s new report that passenger traffic growth at European airports slowed in the first half of 2019 to 4.3%—while freight traffic dropped by 3.5%—indicates economic troubles, aircraft groundings, flight delays and air traffic management (ATM)…
Airbus appears likely to deliver its 9,000th A320-family aircraft during August or early September, analysis of the airframer’s production backlog shows. The manufacturer had delivered a total of 8,951 jets from the single-aisle family by the end of July….
US carrier Frontier Airlines has converted a batch of 15 Airbus A320neo orders to the larger A321neo. The airline had 34 A321neos on order – none of which has yet been delivered – but this figure has risen to…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced global passenger traffic results for June 2019 showing that demand (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose by 5.0% compared to June 2018. This was up slightly from the 4.7% year-over-year…
Chile-based low-cost carrier JetSmart has disclosed plans to consolidate its Argentinian domestic presence by adding more aircraft and routes before April 2020, the first anniversary of its operations in country. In November, JetSmart will launch Airbus A320-operated flights to…
American unveiled its summer 2020 international schedule, which includes the following new service: Philadelphia (PHL) to Casablanca, Morocco (CMN) begins June 4 Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Tel Aviv, Israel (TLV) begins Sept. 9 Chicago (ORD) to Krakow, Poland (KRK)…
Airbus on August 5 officially began manufacturing the A220 in the United States at its production facility in Mobile, Alabama. The company’s Alabama-based workers received on-the-job training in Mirabel, Quebec, where the A220 program and primary final assembly line…
Product diversification, digitisation of the air cargo supply chain and an ambition to build an e-commerce hub in the Middle East are just three of the projects under way at Emirates SkyCargo. The Dubai-based airfreight giant will also monitor…
