Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 07, 2016
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2016 year-to-date, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.
Jul 07, 2016
Boeing delivered 73 commercial aircraft to 32 airlines and nine lessors in June—the manufacturer’s biggest delivery month so far this year.
Jul 07, 2016
Boeing and All Nippon Airways (ANA) have released the 2016 787-9 Dreamliner Flight Demonstration video. The same ANA aircraft is scheduled to perform demonstration flights July 11-13 at the Farnborough Airshow.
Jul 07, 2016
Virgin Australia has revealed that its Tigerair low-cost carrier (LCC) subsidiary will phase out all of its Airbus A320s over the next three years and replace them with Boeing 737s.
Jul 07, 2016
Embraer’s E190-E2, which is powered by Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan (GTF) family of engines, is experiencing some of the startup issues seen on the Airbus A320neo.
Oct 28, 2020
U.S. carriers have retired hundreds of jets ahead of schedule due to the global slump in commercial air travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But how are they utilizing those aircraft that remain, and which models have lost favor in their revamped fleets? A deep dive into Aviation Week Fleet Discovery data offers some clues.
Oct 28, 2020
Boeing is sticking to its earlier announced plans to slash widebody production rates by 50% by 2021 while simultaneously hoping to gradually restore 737 production to 31 per month by the start of 2022.
Oct 28, 2020
Ask the Editors: Airbus’ strategy remains expanding its overseas market share, so the OEM is not likely to bring work back to Europe.
Oct 28, 2020
In an effort to facilitate the integration of unmanned aviation into everyday life, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has approved an initial batch of test sites in 13 cities across the country.
Oct 27, 2020
The shared need between heavy maintenance providers and their customers to survive the pandemic-driven downturn could foster more long-term agreements that give both sides the certainty they crave, industry executives say.
Oct 26, 2020
Wichita aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems has struck a 45% cash discount with Bombardier for the latter’s Short Brothers capacity in Northern Ireland, as well as Bombardier Aerospace North Africa and most of a Dallas MRO site.
Oct 26, 2020
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will issue an update on its plans for the SpaceJet regional jet program on Oct. 30.
Oct 26, 2020
Listen in as CEO Francisco Gomes Neto gives his side of Embraer’s breakup with Boeing, what he thinks of finding new partners, and how he plans to steer the Brazilian aircraft company through the COVID-19 storm.