Korean Air (KAL) is to temporarily suspend passenger services on five international routes and reduce frequency on several others to cope with high fuel prices.
A spokesman for the SkyTeam alliance carrier says from Seoul that the cuts will be imposed from early June to the middle of July.
He says the airline will temporarily […]

Alenia Aermacchi and Boeing have signed a teaming agreement under which the companies will co-operate in efforts to sell the Italian manufacturer’s M-311 basic and M-346 advanced jet trainers on the international market.
Announcing the pact on Monday, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems’ Support Systems division said the agreement will cover “marketing, sales, training and product support […]

The EC725 Cougar is Eurocopter’s largest and longest-legged military helicopter model and it is being aggressively marketed at ILA, competing with the Russian Mi-17, the American Sikorsky S-92 and the Anglo-Italian AgustaWestland AW101 in a number of ongoing competitions.
Eurocopter hopes that the type’s ‘combat-proven’ tag will give it a useful edge, and is displaying […]

Traditionally associated with the production of military aircraft, the Irkut Corporation’s President, Oleg Demchenko, used ILA as a platform to highlight his company’s strategy for diversifying into civil aircraft production. Today, civilian work accounts for a small percentage of the company’s revenue, and the main business remains military. “The military aircraft we produce today will […]

Saab performed the first flight of its Gripen Demo multirole fighter yesterday, just over a month after unveiling the future capabilities demonstrator at its Linköping site in Sweden.
Performed by company test pilots Magnus Ljungdahl and Mikael Seidl, “the flight lasted for 30min and went totally according to plan”, says Saab, which adds: “we are […]