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Boeing announced Sunday it will need to do more work on 50 undelivered 737 MAX aircraft after Spirit AeroSystems, the contractor that builds 737 fuselages.

European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is asking customers to return some aircraft delivery slots in order to make those slots available to United.

EgyptAir’s current fleet comprises 66 active aircraft, with the Boeing 737-800 dominating at 27 jets and are on average eleven and a half years old.

Icelandair has announced further expansion of the airline’s network for 2024 with the addition of two more North American destinations. Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada will see a resumption of service after a break of several years with a seasonal operation from 31 May until mid-October 2024. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a new destination for the […]

Lynx Air — the Canadian ultra low-cost carrier — will commence operations from Montréal’s Pierre Trudeau International Airport in June. Canada’s second-largest city will become the fifteenth North American destination on the Calgary, Alberta-based carrier’s network with services to Calgary International Airport and St. John, Canada’s International Airport. Merren McArthur, chief executive officer of Lynx, said, […]

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA, known simply as ‘Norwegian,’ a Norwegian low-cost airline that operates both domestically and internationally, began 2023 with a strong sales campaign, carrying around 1.1 million (1,131,474) passengers and also recording an increase in load factor. January is generally the month of the year when people travel the least, but compared to […]

On 23 January 2023, Ryanair installed Split Scimitar Winglets on the first of more than 400 new-generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft in its fleet in order to reduce its carbon footprint. The Split Scimitar Winglets, jointly developed with Boeing, can reduce aerodynamic drag by up to 2%. This retrofit comes after signing a $175 million deal […]

Despite being the second largest country in the world with a very sparse population and vast distances among its main cities, air transport in Canada has not evolved as it has in most of the other G8 countries. The market is mainly controlled by two large carriers, Air Canada and WestJet, and fares are quite […]

Japan Airlines is looking to modernize its fleet and subscribe to more fuel-efficient aircraft, according to Bloomberg. The airline owns 45 Boeing 737 aircraft with a median age of 12.5 years old and looks to replace them with Boeing 737 MAXs or Airbus A320Neos.  It is expected to be a contract of 30 to 50 […]

Usually, the issue of an airworthiness certificate for a specific aircraft is a task delegated to the manufacturer, which the certifying body — the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the U.S. or European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in the European Union — then approves. However, Boeing will no longer be able to do this for […]