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SkyWest to Take Stake in Brazilian Airline

SkyWest Airlines has agreed to buy a 6-percent stake in Brazilian regional airline Trip Linhas Aereas, SkyWest vice president of finan ce Mike Kraupp confi

September 4, 2008

Republic 170s To Spell Midwest 717s

Midwest Airlines will replace all but nine of its Boeing 717s with 12 Embraer 170s flown by Indianapolis-based Republic Airways as part of an effort to res

September 4, 2008

SPEEA Calls on Boeing to Give Up 787 “Outsourcing”

The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) has publicly called on Boeing to “face the fact that the global network is a failure

September 3, 2008

CRJ1000 Takes Flight

Bombardier’s sole CRJ1000 prototype took to the air for the first time today, marking the successful start of a flight-test regime expected to last until t

September 3, 2008

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Clear skies for bizjet and turboprop deliveries

Despite a softening U.S.

September 2, 2008

Jet Connection Shuts its Doors

German charter operator Jet Connection stopped flying early last month and appears to have ceased trading.

September 2, 2008

Dramatic Evacuation of Air Dolomiti ATR 72 Captured on Video

An amateur video broadcast by the BBC shows a fierce fire burning near the main lan

August 29, 2008

CRJ1000 First Flight Expected This Month

An integration fault in the Bombardier CRJ1000’s fly-by-wire rudder control system has forced the company to install a software revision in the prototype d

August 29, 2008

Delta To Take Back Mesa CRJ900s

Delta Air Lines has notified Mesa Air Group that it plans to cancel its contract to fly Bombardier CRJ900s.

August 29, 2008

Republic To Speed ERJ Retirements

Republic Airways and Delta Air Lines in late July reached an agreement to remove the Indianapolis-based regional airline’s final eleven 37-seat Embraer ERJ

August 29, 2008

SkyWest To Cut Midwest Flying

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August 29, 2008

Pinnacle To Retire 10 Saabs

Pinnacle Airlines will remove from service 10 of subsidiary Colgan Air’s 40 Saab 340Bs next month as part of a plan to reduce its exposure to pro-rate flyi

August 29, 2008

Industry girds for glut of retired regional jets

When Bombardier and Embraer ended mass production of their respective 50-seat jets by 2006, it appeared that the regional airline industry’s love affair wi

August 29, 2008

A380 inaugurates U.S. service in New York with Emirates

Heralding a new generation in passenger travel to the U.S., Emirates Airline’s first Airbus A380 arrived at New York’s JFK International Airport at approxi

August 29, 2008

In business class, A380 provides plenty of luxury

It was a short flight, two-and-a-half hours over the Pacific Ocean, but even that amount of time was enough to learn that business-class seats in an Emirat

August 29, 2008

Embraer E-Jets Subject of New AD

The FAA issued a new Airworthiness Directive today that warns of a failure by the flight guidance control system (FGCS) in certain Embraer E170s and E190s

August 28, 2008

Boeing Issues ‘Best and Final’ Offer to Machinists

Boeing today presented what it called its best and final contract offer to its approximately 27,000 employees represented by the International Association

August 28, 2008

Kingfisher To Launch International Service on September 3

India’s Kingfisher Airlines announced it will launch its first international service on September 3 between Bangalore and London Heathrow Airport.

August 26, 2008

Dilemma for Boeing as Pentagon Issues Revised RFP for KC-X

Boeing faces a tough decision, now that the Pentagon has confirmed that bigger is better in the KC-X tanker competition.

August 22, 2008

GAO Confirms Naval Global Hawk as Winner of BAMS

The U.S.

August 22, 2008

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