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On January 27th, Safran’s new Research & Technology Center, Safran Tech, was inaugurated at France’s leading science and technology cluster, in Saclay, near Paris. Safran Tech will eventually house some 300 scientists and engineers dedicated to research on key disciplines for all of Safran’s business sectors. Safran Tech reflects Safran’s corporate strategy of intensifying and […]

Gogo, a leading global aero communications service provider, reported that it’s on track for record aircraft installs in 2015. The company now has a backlog of well more than 1,000 commercial aircraft, more than half of which are expected to be installed in 2015. With the large backlog in commercial aviation and the company’s current

After nearly ten years of discussions, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott and China’s President Xi Jinping concluded negotiations for a China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) on 17th November 2014. The Australian Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb and Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng signed a Declaration of Intent to work towards signature of the Agreement. ChAFTA

India’s Spicejet airline is coming under increased scrutiny and financial pressure with the news that BOC aviation have demanded the return of three leased Boeing 737s. This comes in the same week that Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) had put the troubled carrier on cash-and-carry mode since January 20th. This move followed after the airline

It was back in 2012 that Air France-KLM agreed the implementation of Transform 2015 in a bid to return the airline to profitability. At that time 5,100 job cuts were expected to be the solution after fiveyears of running at a loss. The French Government owns a 15.9% stake in the airline and the socialist

American Airlines will begin operating its new daily service between Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) on May 7th, marking the airline’s sixth daily flight to Asia from DFW and the only nonstop flight connecting DFW and Beijing. With the addition of this service, American will offer 11 routes between

In a move that is doubtless intended to show international air safety bodies that Indonesia has woken up to the fact they have been lax in their air safety policies, Indonesia’s Minister of Transport, Ignasius Jonan, has announced that a number of new safety rules have been put in place since the crash of AirAsia’s

It was only eighteen months ago aviation news was reporting that Airbus and Boeing airframes were being retired after only 15 years in service. The reason – high fuel prices. This meant that demand for air travel remained relatively static and few expanded routes or new airlines were appearing. At the time, the UK’s Air

The strategy for the new Alitalia was unveiled on January 20th, with an unequivocal commitment by the new executive team and strategic investors to reinvent the airline. Alitalia will introduce new routes, new product and service standards, a new cost management strategy and new branding, as the foundations to build a premium global airline representing