#Essential Aviation News For The World#

Maiden mission comes less than a month after Kuwait Airways signed on as new launch customer

The chairwoman and CEO of Iran’s flagship carrier Iran Air says the company will negotiate with any supplier, including the Russian Sukhoi, that can sell aircraft and plane parts to Iran without an OFAC licence.

After a near-miss with bankruptcy nine years ago, Air Canada is among world's healthier airlines, regularly reporting healthy profit margins while winning Like nearly every Canadian and European airline since the jet age began, Air Canada still has not solved a structural problem: How to sustain profits from October through March, when Canadians (and Northern Europeans) dig in for winter.

Airline looks at operating long-range airbus narrowbodies configured with 178 seats for Boeing 757 replacement

Mexican airline Interjet is falling deeper into debt at just the wrong time. The carrier received a cash injection for 900 million pesos and is expecting Interjet CEO Jose Luis Garza said a 3.2 billion-peso cash injection will reverse the airline's deteriorating financial position.