Civil Aircraft News

Dassault Aviation reported lower sales and operating profit due to weaker Falcon business jet deliveries and high R&D costs, but said it hoped to reach a long-awaited deal to sell 126 Rafale combat jets to India as quickly as possible.

Thai AirAsia has scrapped a plan to diversify into commuter services that offer short-distance and interprovincial routes using turboprop aircraft.

The government's stretch of six months without an asylum seeker boat passenger arriving in Australia is set to end, as 157 Tamils who have spent four weeks in limbo aboard the Customs Ocean Protector will be brought to the Australian mainland on Saturday.

WheelTug plc has released footage of its Iron Foot, the mechanical test rig for testing the WheelTug across a range of aircraft and airport operating parameters.

It won't be back until 2016, but there was plenty to live long in the memory from this year's Farnborough Air Show Glorious weather meant there were, for the most part, clear blue skies for the public days of the 2014 Farnborough Air Show .

Bombardier Aerospace's unexpected layoff of 1,800 employees, an organizational restructuring and the retirement of its CEO, has left workers and some analysts concerned, even though the changes are seen to be financially positive for the aircraft manufacturer.

As Bombardier reorganizes, Eric Martel will remain the lead of Bombardier's business aircraft segment, which includes the Learjet operations based in Wichita.

When Chip Yates started working on his electric airplane in 2012, he wasn't trying to make conventional, gas-powered aircraft look slow.

The Green Flight International team is fine-tuning the viscosity of their fuel to avoid this buildup of soot in engine components.

Authorities have lost contact with an Air Algerie flight en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers with 110 passengers on board, Algeria's APS state news agency and a Spanish airline company said on Thursday.

Jazeera Airways Group today announced financial and operational results for the first half of 2014, reporting an operating revenue of KD29.3 million, and a net profit of KD4.9 million.

Despite a small drop in year-over-year revenues and operating earnings, Savannah-based Gulfstream Aerospace posted a strong second-quarter performance, pushing margins significantly past analysts' expectations for the second quarter and setting the scene for a "very strong" third-quarter performance, parent company General Dynamics said Wednesday.

Starting in December, Air Canada will offer nonstop seasonal service between Vancouver and Palm Springs, the airline's subsidiary, Air Canada rouge, announced today.

The early operation of Duqm Airport, located about 550km from Muscat, marks a milestone in Oman's development history.

Air Serbia's flight attendants pose during the official unveiling ceremony of the first Air Serbia Airbus A319-100 airplane at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport on October 25, 2013.

With this month's downing of MH17 and the March disappearance of MH370 , it seems that if Malaysia Airlines didn't have bad luck, it wouldn't have any luck at all.

Airline manufacturer Airbus has filed a patent for a bicycle-like seat that lets airlines fit in more passengers per plane.

The battle for the inch and the battle for the butts-on-seats is - in the end - a battle for the birds in the sky.

Social and business communities thrive in close proximity. Yet, as Robert Caro explained long ago in The Power Broker, Robert Moses had a bias to build things like parkways and bridges that enabled cars and their passengers in and around New York and especially on Long Island.

Lion Air has selected a comprehensive suite of avionics, including the MultiScan Threat Detection System and GLU-925 Multi-Mode Receiver , for 234 Airbus A320 aircraft.