WASHINGTON: Boeing’s new long-haul 777X airliner made its first flight on Saturday, a step forward for the company whose broader prospects remain clouded by the 737 MAX crisis.
The world’s largest twin-engine aircraft landed at Boeing Field near Seattle after approximately four hours in the air, following months of delays and erratic weather in recent days.
High winds led to the maiden flight’s postponement on Friday, and the company blamed weather for an earlier delay on Thursday, which was"...

KUALA LUMPUR: Proposals to invest in ailing Malaysia Airlines include one from Air France-KLM which wants as much as 49 percent while Japan Airlines is looking at a 25 percent stake, sources with knowledge of the matter said.

Domestic carrier AirAsia Group Bhd and Malindo Air, the Malaysian arm of Indonesia’s Lion Air, have also submitted proposals, the sources said.

“The"...

BAE Systems and Renishaw have signed an agreement to work together on the development of additive manufacturing capability for the defence and aerospace sector, designed to help improve performance, reduce costs and speed up manufacturing processes on combat aircraft of the future.

The MoU lays the framework for the two companies to bring together world-leading expertise"...

Azur Drones, Europe’s leader in autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), has launched its drone-in-a-box surveillance solution, Skeyetech, at Intersec. This move is expected to boost the security monitoring for high-risk private and public sites in the Middle East.

Skeyetech is a ready-to-fly surveillance system, which has been designed to monitor and confirm events, conduct perimeter patrols and provide support operation to ground security"...

Air freight demand globally decreased 1 per cent in November, compared to the same period last year due to trade tensions between the world's two biggest economies - the US and China, according to the International Air Transport Association (Iata) data.

However, November’s performance was the best in eight months, with the slowest year-on-year rate of contraction recorded since March 2019, as big large e-commerce events such as Singles"...

American Airlines said that it has reached a confidential agreement with Boeing on compensation for financial damages incurred in 2019 due to the grounding of the airline’s Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

“Despite the ongoing challenges the grounding has brought, American Airlines team members continue to do an incredible job caring for our customers,” said American’s chairman and CEO Doug Parker.

“Our ability as an airline to weather these unprecedented times is thanks to"...

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) concluded a series of flight demonstrations using its MQ-9 Guardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) on December 19, 2019. The demonstrations showcased the maritime surveillance capabilities of the MQ-9, and the GA-ASI-developed Detect and Avoid (DAA) system for traffic-deconfliction in civil airspace. The flights were sponsored by the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) and the Hellenic Coast Guard (HCG) and staged out of Larissa Air Base in Greece. The flights were performed"...

China's state-owned plane maker conducted the sixth and final flight test of its C919 narrowbody jet on Friday, marking a milestone in the programme, which aims to develop a domestic competitor to Boeing and Airbus.

The jet departed from Shanghai Pudong International Airport with a flight duration of two hours and five minutes, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), said in a statement on its website. The sixth prototype of the jet,"...