Welcome to Morning Call for October 18, 2021, and the Top Aviation News Stories for today. You can also search our Archives for older news stories by date. AirInsight US Airline Index Commercial Aviation Former MAX test pilot indicted –…
Malaysia’s AirAsia X (AAX) is proposing to pay around 0.5 percent of the debt owed to its creditors, and to terminate all existing contracts in order to allow the long-haul low-cost carrier to restructure its liabilities, reports Reuters, citing a document…
Ryanair demands that the Portuguese government and the European Commission intervene and make an end to what the carrier calls ‘slot blocking’ at Lisbon Portela Airport. The Irish low-cost says that national airline TAP Portugal continues to benefit from slots being…
UPDATE – Another quality issue has hit the Boeing 787. This time, it isn’t composites that are questioned but the structural integrity of certain titanium parts that are used inside the cabin. AirInsight learns that Boeing has been dealing with…
With growing chatter about fuel burn and rising fuel prices, we kept digging in the data and came up with some interesting metrics for your consideration. The greener the number in the table the better. Our metric is seat miles…
Earlier this week, the Chilean ultra-low-cost carrier JetSMART received its 19th aircraft, an Airbus A320neo. This plane represents one step further on the big growth plans by the South American airline. JetSMART plans According to Airbus Orders & Deliveries database,…