FARNBOROUGH — Boeing, GE Aerospace and other large U.S. aviation manufacturers have formed an industry coalition that’s working with the Federal Aviation Administration to accelerate and modernize the ...

Ten months after its chief executive Scott Kirby voiced frustration with the jetliner duopoly and called for more competition in the sector, United Airlines on April 24 announced an equity investment ...

In the early weeks of the pandemic’s ravaging of global commercial aviation, Airbus pulled the plug on a full-scale demonstrator program called E-Fan X, a bid to convert one of four engines on an ...

Domestic contractors vying for U.S. air traffic control modernization projects are citing Chinese business ties as well as cyber and national security concerns in their latest bid to shut out ...

The Boeing 737 Max software issue that was in the spotlight this week is only one of many bugs that have led U.S. airlines to ...

Four days before SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq in the largest-ever initial public offering, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration quietly changed its safety policy to allow more aircraft to fly ...

A comprehensive review of the V-22 Osprey released Dec. 12 by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) exposes critical safety and readiness concerns with the Bell-Boeing tiltrotor, ...

The swanky interior of one of United Airlines’ newest Boeing 787-9s is a lodestar for the future of U.S. aviation — and a throwback to a bygone era. Two-thirds of the 206-foot-long airplane is ...

The U.S. airline industry was counting on the death of Spirit Airlines. That’s not an ideal outcome for the Trump administration, however. With the U.S. midterm elections looming, the White House ...

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