Could billions of batteries be stuck on the tarmac until safer packaging materials are available?

A two-year budget agreement that would fund the Pentagon, FAA and NASA and reauthorize the Export-Import Bank.

The FAA is expecting as many as one million small UAVs could be sold during the U.S. holiday season. How much of a threat does that pose to airliners? The troubling answer is the agency really does not know because it has not begun testing. Listen to editors from Aviation Week and sister publication Air Transport World discuss the implications.

A new U.S. report names Airbus and France as potentially rich targets for small manufacturers looking to goose exports.

That Airbus was going to operate a mixed fleet for some time was planned from the start and had a strong influence on the design of the A330-based Beluga XL.

Beijing Capital International Airport has been too busy with traffic to and from China to develop as an international hub. In anticipation of the opening of a fourth runway and the new airport at Daxing, that will change.

The proposed Sino-Russian widebody airliner would compete with the Boeing 787-10 and Airbus A330-900. But managers from both countries will need to learn to work together, and Western suppliers will have to consider clear risks.

While Airbus focuses on A320neo to address middle-of-the-market for commercial aircraft, options for Boeing are less clear and will take time to sort out.