Commercial Aircraft News

An Air VIA Airbus A320-200, registration LZ-MDR performing flight VL-502 from Leipzig to Varna with 172 passengers and 6 crew, landed on Varna's runway 09 at 10:19L but overran the end of the runway, broke through the localizer antenna and came to a stop about 220 meters past the runway end just inside the airport perimeter fence.

Student loan company Nelnet says it will seek to fill more than 300 jobs in Lincoln over the next three months.

Air India spent over 85 per cent of its Rs 6,000-crore equity infusion last year on clearing pending staff salaries, paying off aircraft loans and interest and its debt to oil companies and airport operators.

The additional aircraft would be mainly for the market in India, where it expects its new affiliate, AirAsia India, to launch in the fourth quarter.

United Airlines will offer lie-flat seats on all international long-haul flights from New York.

A British Airways flight from London to Oslo made an emergency landing at Heathrow airport Friday morning after a fire broke out shortly after takeoff.

BA said the Heathrow to Oslo service turned back after a technical fault at about 09:00 BST.

A British Airways plane made an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport Friday morning after developing a technical fault, the airline said.

Heathrow said that all passengers and crew had been safely evacuated from the plane following the incident at about 9am on Friday.

A British Airways plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing at Heathrow on Friday after a technical fault in an engine.

Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smouldering batteries.

Chinese regulators have approved the Boeing 787 to fly in the country, Boeing said on Thursday, a move that opens up a large potential market to the United States aerospace giant.

A worker loads a container holding ceramic matrix composites components inside a high-pressure autoclave for curing.

AIR Pacific's second Airbus christened Island of Namuka-i-Lau landed yesterday at the Nadi International Airport in another historic achievement for Fiji's aviation industry.

The regulator made the announcement in a short statement on its website , without giving further details.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday the China Airlines flight landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport after Sunday's incident.

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.

With a water cannon salute on the airfield welcoming the first JetBlue Airways flight from Boston Thursday, the popular low-fare carrier treated Philadelphia passengers and guests to cheese steaks, a Mummers band, pretzels, Boston crme pie doughnuts, Bassetts ice cream and peanut chews.

Many Federal Reserve officials earlier this month wanted to see more evidence that the U.S. economy was recovering before shifting toward a tapering of their bond purchase program, the Fed said on Wednesday.

GKN Aerospace, which is sponsoring the Bristol Apprenticeship Training Provider of the Year category, supplies parts to the civil and military global aviation industry and is part of a company with an engineering history stretching back 255 years.