Aircraft News

Emirates, one of the world's fastest growing airlines, will increase capacity on its services to Colombo from 30th June 2013, with the addition of three more flights per week, the airline announced today.

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house.

A PLANE purpose built to transport a shuttle for the Soviet space programme landed in Shannon Airport this week, drawing gasps from the large numbers of plane-spotters awaiting its arrival.

The great recession has been tough on light aircraft manufacturers. Deliveries of single-engine piston planes have plunged from 2,097 in 2007 to just 817 last year , according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association .

Tributes have been paid to a man killed when the light aircraft he was flying in flipped on a North Wales runway.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner, center, at a news conference in Tokyo in March.

Malawi's luxury presidential jet, bought by late leader Bingu wa Mutharika, has been sold for $15-million to raise cash for the impoverished African country, a government official said on Wednesday.

"We would be perfectly willing, if we had a total moratorium on narrow-body and wide-body financing, to forego" export credit help on narrow-body jet purchases from Bombardier

Virgin Atlantic announced the increase in capacity of more than a third after it confirmed it would use a Boeing 747 plane for its 2014 programme.

It took off at 04:47 local time from Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, bound for Dallas, Texas.

But the Chicago-based carrier that combined in 2010 with Continental Airlines to create the world's largest carrier, found three ways Tuesday to change the subject, at least for now.

Castle Rock resident Daryl Martin waits at DIA to board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner bound for Houston on Tuesday.

A Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental successfully completed its first test flight this week with a package of performance improvements including enhanced GE engines.

CEO Louis Chenevert told analysts Tuesday that airline profitability looks better for 2013 than in recent years.

Sharjah: Air Arabia said on Monday it has signed a $350 million financing deal from a syndicate of two GCC banks - Qatar National Bank and Commercial Bank International .

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has plans to recruit more than 50 pilots from its partner airline, airberlin.

A Boeing Dreamliner took off Monday - it was a United Airlines flight from Houston to Chicago.

The East Lancashire man who died following the aircraft crash at Caernarfon Airport yesterday has been named as Iain Nuttall.

Leaders of the multibillion-dollar global business aviation industry see signs of recovery from four years of recession, they said on Monday, but they appealed to governments to ease the way ahead by cutting taxes and red tape.

A US Airways flight made a belly landing at Newark International Airport in the early morning hours on Saturday after the plane reported a problem with its landing gear, a spokesman for the airline said.