US express cargo carrier DHL Airways says the US Department of Transportation should dismiss claims that the airline does not comply with laws on foreign ownership. FedEx and United Parcel Service (UPS) say their rival is controlled by Deutsche Post and Lufthansa Cargo via stakes in DHL Inter-national, which has a 52% share and 23% voting rights in DHL Airways, part of DHL Worldwide Express. Foreign ownership of US carriers is capped at 25%.
Source: Flight International
US air taxi developer Eve Mobility revealed on 21 July the first full-scale prototype of its electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, a remotely operated variant that the company is pushing to get off the ground this year.
Boeing has tweaked upward its 20-year aircraft-demand forecast, predicting airlines will need more jets than previously expected due to an extraordinarily large number of older aircraft that soon must be replaced.
Airbus’s A321XLR has initially been certified with a maximum take-off weight of 97t, but the airframer is working on approval for higher weights for the twinjet. This 97t figure is the same MTOW as the XLR’s immediate predecessor, the A321LR. The airframer had originally stated – when its unveiled the ...
