Falling airline profits are reducing demand for aircraft, particularly widebody aircraft — and potentially even for the 787, which remains the world’s most glamorous aircraft after five years of operation and 500 deliveries. Aerospace consultant Scott Hamilton recently raised the possibility of diminished Dreamliner demand. “Despite a rosy picture painted by Boeing about the future […]
The Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport has no special features that made it more or less vulnerable to a baggage-claim area attack, a federal law enforcement official tells PEOPLE. “It was an everyday target,” says the source when asked to offer insights into alleged gunman Esteban Santiago’s attack at this particular airport. Santiago is accused of killing five people and wounding […]
With time running out, the vessel looking for the jet dashes north to the area where scientists say it went down, suggesting that something significant has shown up. The Daily Beast has learned that in the final days of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the search vessel scouring the depths of the Indian Ocean […]
In the last one month there have been acute problem of aviation fuel scarcity and bad weather that severely interrupted flight operations. These two problems, which are solvable, seemed at that time to eclipse the fundamental problem that has dogged flight operations over the years. The problem has been inefficient airports due to obsolete infrastructure, […]
Some stakeholders in the aviation industry have said that harsh operating environment, including disincentive government policies, high cost of doing business and scarcity of aviation fuel are discouraging investors from the sector. In the past four years there have been more commercial airlines that went under than the ones that came in and in the last two years it is only Air Peace […]