- A380 to fly in Asian Aerospace[Jan. 25, 2006]
Airbus is to send one of the A380 test aircraft to the Asian Aerospace air show in Singapore next month and will have it flying in the full livery of national carrier and launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA).
- AirTran returns to Worldspan[Jan. 24, 2006]
News from Travel Technology Update: AirTran, which dropped out of Worldspan in November because the two companies could not come to terms on the cost of participation, is back in the GDS with a new multiyear, full content agreement, effect Jan. 24.
- Wildcat Strikes Hit Alitalia[Jan. 23, 2006]
Alitalia looks set to face a withering week of wildcat strikes, as unions took aim at CEO Giancarlo Cimoli and his cost-cutting plan to rebuild Italy's largest airline.
- ATR became joint top of regionals league[Jan. 23, 2006]
Turboprop manufacturer ATR has revealed its year-end order figures in Paris today and has emerged joint top of the regional aircraft sales league for 2005 with Embraer.
- Sukhoi firms engine deal with PowerJet[Jan. 23, 2006]
Russian airframer Sukhoi's civil aviation division has signed a definitive agreement with the Snecma-NPO Saturn joint venture PowerJet for supply of the SaM146 engines to be installed on the newly-developed Russian Regional Jet (RRJ).
- Challenger 605 performs first flight[Jan. 23, 2006]
Bombardier completed first flight of the Challenger 605 large cabin business jet yesterday at the airframer's facilities at Montreal Trudeau international airport.
- Saudis launch a new low-fare airline[Jan. 10, 2006]
A low-fare airline being set up in Saudi Arabia is expected to launch services by the middle of this year.
- Emirates censured in A340 accident probe[Jan. 10, 2006]
Emirates Airline's training and rostering practices have been criticised by South African investigators in their report into a take-off accident involving one of the carrier's Airbus A340-300s at Johannesburg in April 2004.
- Singapore will expand airlines terminal[Jan. 10, 2006]
Singapore, which operates Asia's sixth-busiest airport, may double the capacity of its S$45mil terminal for budget airlines, Asia's first, betting more people will travel by air on discounted fares.
- Airliners nearly collide over Norway[Jan. 09, 2006]
Airliners carrying a total of 348 people came within 40 seconds of colliding over southern Norway at the weekend, the Oslo newspaper VG quoted a Norwegian aviation official as confirming.