Bombardier said that construction is progressing on its new service center in the United Arab Emirates, with major structural elements taking shape at the company’s site at Al Bateen Executive Airport (OMAD) in Abu Dhabi.

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) has issued Flexjet a Foreign Operator Certificate, authorizing the U.S.-based fractional private jet company to operate on-demand domestic flights within the Kingdom.

DALLAS—As Spirit Airlines marks a third month in its repeat restructuring, industry entrepreneur and airline founder David Neeleman is weighing in on Spirit’s chances of survival.

Alaska Airlines has secured slots at London Heathrow Airport (LHR), paving the way for the carrier to launch its planned Seattle-London service in May 2026.

Argentina’s Flybondi has taken a step toward establishing a second home market in South America as Paraguay’s aviation authority begins the process of authorizing the ULCC to operate as the country’s flag carrier.

Peraton has been chosen as the sole integrator in the ambitious U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) plan to upgrade the country’s air traffic control (ATC) infrastructure by 2029, the agency announced late Dec. 4.

Fokker Next Gen, which plans to develop a hydrogen-powered airliner, has closed its legal entity in Latvia to focus its main activities in the Netherlands according to LIAA, the Baltic nation’s investment and development agency.

Teardowns of relatively young Airbus A320neo aircraft are continuing, with Eirtrade Aviation becoming the latest company to buy aircraft for part-out.

Aircraft-on-ground incidents in Africa are increasingly being traced to a chronic shortage of spare parts, a challenge that OEMs are now confronting head-on with recalibrated aftermarket strategies and regional partnerships.

ITA Airways will begin flights between Rome Fiumicino and Houston next spring, adding the United Airlines hub to its transatlantic network as the carrier accelerates its shift toward Star Alliance.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is mandating Airbus-recommended inspections of A350 auxiliary power units (APU) following two in-service incidents linked to a common problem.

Emirates has deployed its first ultra-long-range variant of the Airbus A350-900 to Adelaide, Australia.

EasyJet plans to acquire Slovenia-based Adria Tehnika, which operates five lines of maintenance at its Ljubljana Airport base. The acquisition, the price of which has not been disclosed, adds to the airline’s growing in-house network.

Boeing CFO Jay Malave said Dec. 2 that the company expects to report a $2 billion cash burn for all of 2025, better than predicted before, and that in 2026 it will record low-single-digit billions of dollars of positive free cashflow that grows annually.