Commercial Aircraft News

A worker loads a container holding ceramic matrix composites components inside a high-pressure autoclave for curing.

AIR Pacific's second Airbus christened Island of Namuka-i-Lau landed yesterday at the Nadi International Airport in another historic achievement for Fiji's aviation industry.

The regulator made the announcement in a short statement on its website , without giving further details.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday the China Airlines flight landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after Sunday's incident.

Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from 30th June 2013, with the addition of three more flights per week, the airline announced today.

With a water cannon salute on the airfield welcoming the first JetBlue Airways flight from Boston Thursday, the popular low-fare carrier treated Philadelphia passengers and guests to cheese steaks, a Mummers band, pretzels, Boston crme pie doughnuts, Bassetts ice cream and peanut chews.

Many Federal Reserve officials earlier this month wanted to see more evidence that the U.S. economy was recovering before shifting toward a tapering of their bond purchase program, the Fed said on Wednesday.

GKN Aerospace, which is sponsoring the Bristol Apprenticeship Training Provider of the Year category, supplies parts to the civil and military global aviation industry and is part of a company with an engineering history stretching back 255 years.

A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-400, flight MH-864 from Kuala Lumpur to Medan , was destined for Medan's Polonia Airport estimated to land at 15:20L but approached Kuala Namu International Airport's runway.

Airbus broke ground April 8, 2013, on a $600 million A320 family final assembly line at Mobile's Brookley Aeroplex, expected to employ 1,000 directly when the plant reaches full production around 2018.

"We would be perfectly willing, if we had a total moratorium on narrow-body and wide-body financing, to forego" export credit help on narrow-body jet purchases from Bombardier

Virgin Atlantic announced the increase in capacity of more than a third after it confirmed it would use a Boeing 747 plane for its 2014 programme.

It took off at 04:47 local time from Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, bound for Dallas, Texas.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner, shown in Tokyo earlier this year, is on Kiawah Island today.

But the Chicago-based carrier that combined in 2010 with Continental Airlines to create the world's largest carrier, found three ways Tuesday to change the subject, at least for now.

The low-cost arm of the state-run Air India Ltd flies an all-Boeing 737 fleet and gets 75 per cent of its business from Kerala.

A Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully completed its first test flight this week with a package of performance improvements including enhanced GE engines.

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United Airlines put its 787 Dreamliner back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them.

CEO Louis Chenevert told analysts Tuesday that airline profitability looks better for 2013 than in recent years.