Civil Aircraft News

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.

A Rossiya Antonov AN-148, registration RA-61701 performing flight FV-6714 from Perm to Saint Petersburg , was climbing out of Perm when the crew decided to return to Perm due to a fault in the cabin pressurization.

The majority of the orders at last week's air show have been placed by midsized lessors, some of which have seen their purchases exceed the book values of the corporate balance sheets.

Neal will report to the SVP of sales and marketing, John Eichten. "PATS is very excited to have Brian Neal rejoining the team," said Eichten.

Staff at the Metal Improvement Company in Broughton fear 90 jobs could go, although union officials say the figure will be lower Aerospace workers who produce wing panels for the Airbus A320 face a redundancy threat as work is moved to South Korea.

In the thirteen months directly prior to kicking off his Republican presidential campaign in February 2007, Rudy Giuliani earned more than $11 million dollars giving paid speeches.