GE nears US$30bn deal with aircraft lessor AerCap
Engine-maker General Electric is nearing a US$30 billion-plus deal to combine its aircraft leasing business with Irish aircraft lessor AerCap Holdings, according to sources familiar with the matter. It comes as the latest move in a string of decisions by the industrial conglomerate to restructure its once-sprawling operations. Though details of how the deal would
The world’s busiest international passenger airport, Dubai International Airport, has begun using iris scanners as a contact-free method of identity verification on all passengers, according to a report by the Associated Press. While the airport has been testing such biometric technology as a means of passenger identification for many months, the program has been hurried
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised that even those who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 should continue to avoid non-essential travel. The US airline industry has pushed back on the guidelines, and reiterated that air travel poses very little threat of COVID transmission due to the air filters used onboard commercial
Comment: How people can end up living at airports for months or years at a time
In this cross-posting with The Conversation, aviation historian Janet Bednarek explores how people may end up living in airports, and why it happens more often than you might think. In January, local authorities arrested a 36-year-old man named Aditya Singh after he had spent three months living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. Since October, he
Norwegian Air’s order cancellations have seen Airbus’ order book fall into the red, while its dispute with Boeing will come to a head in US courts. The troubled carrier cancelled 88 aircraft orders worth billions of dollars from European planemaker Airbus, after getting approval to do so by an Irish bankruptcy court. The decision has
An American Airlines Boeing 737 MAX declared an emergency before landing at its destination, after the pilots reported possible engine troubles. According to reports, the captain needed to shut down the right engine after the aircrew were made aware of possible mechanical issues related to the engine’s oil pressure or volume indicator. The plane was
