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UAE Plays Hardball on Behalf of Emirates, Etihad

Sometimes business mixes with politics in less than subtle ways, as a dispute over landing rights in Toronto for Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways clearl

October 22, 2010

Airframers in No Rush To Re-engine

Airbus, Boeing and Embraer seem willing to wait longer than expected to decide whether or not to re-engine their respective single-aisle offerings, as limi

October 22, 2010

ICAO Decision on Climate Change Fails To Quell ETS Row

After years of hair-splitting debate and tactical vacillation, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) finally has agreed to what it character

October 22, 2010

Asia, Credit Markets Explain Stark Industry Contrast

One might attribute the striking contrast between the business jet industry’s predicament and the more-than-healthy production rates at major commercial ai

October 22, 2010

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Bombardier Completes First Phase of Belfast Wing Facility

Bombardier has completed the first phase of construction of a 600,000-sq-ft wing manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast for the C Series airliner,

Aircraft

October 21, 2010

Boeing Expects Orders to Exceed Deliveries this Year

Boeing expects its commercial aircraft book-to-bill ratio to exceed one by year-end, following what CEO Jim McNerney characterized as a “strong” third quar

Aircraft

October 20, 2010

Jeppesen using RAIM to fine tune RNP

Several elements of the Next Generation Air Transportation System depend on GPS-based area navigation (RNAV) and required navigation performance (RNP).

ATC

October 18, 2010

Garmin unleashes G5000 cockpit

Garmin, the Olathe, Kan.

ATC

October 18, 2010

Boeing Joins Fuselage Sections for First 747-8 Intercontinental

Boeing mechanics joined the forward and aft fuselage sections with the wing and center section of the first 747-8 Intercontinental in Everett, Wash., this

Aircraft

October 15, 2010

Tokyo Haneda and Sapporo New Chitose Welcome the A380

An Airbus A380 test aircraft landed this week for the first time at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, making it the 120th airport visited by th

Aircraft

October 15, 2010

Lockheed To Run Flight Service Stations through '13

The FAA has extended for another three years until 2013 the contract it has with Lockheed Martin to run the automated flight service stations that dissemin

ATC

October 14, 2010

ADS-B deployment provides a proving ground for NextGen

Progress on the FAA’s ambitious NextGen overhaul of the ATC system in the U.S.

ATC

October 13, 2010

Analyst sees uptick in regional sales

Although deliveries of smaller regional jets have dropped dramatically in the past few years, Forecast International expects growing numbers of jets to be

October 13, 2010

Boeing reports 787 progress

The sixth and final Boeing 787 to join the flight test fleet flew for the first time earlier this month from Paine Field in Everett, Wash.

October 13, 2010

Airlines Propose New Export Credit Rules

A group of 24 airlines based in Europe and the U.S.

October 13, 2010

Europe preps for high-altitude regs

The requirement for aircraft flying above FL285 in Europe to have the latest VDLM2 datalink capability begins on Jan.

ATC

October 13, 2010

Boeing Takes Flak over 747-8 Freighter Delays

It didn’t take special insight to guess that Boeing wouldn’t meet its year-end target to certify and deliver the first 747-8 Freighter.

Aircraft

October 8, 2010

Mitsubishi Cuts Metal for MRJ as Sales Sag

Mitsubishi has tried not to let lackluster sales tarnish an efficiently run development campaign for the MRJ regional jet, the first metal for which worker

Aircraft

October 8, 2010

Boeing Looks To Add Value and Grow Revenue throughout Aircraft Lifecycle

Boeing’s Commercial Aviation Services (CAS) division is gaining ground in its strategy to deliver services for the entire lifetime of the aircraft that it

Maintenance and Modifications

October 8, 2010

Europe’s Regional Airlines Demand Legal Action over Volcano Losses

Despite evident post-recession traffic recovery, last month’s European Regions Airline Association general assembly in Barcelona was accompanied by the sou

Regulations and Government

October 8, 2010