These are the airlines that are likely to provide the industry's biggest talking points.

That airlines' financial performance globally appears to be slowly improving is being interpreted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as due to restructuring and cost-cutting, and not as a result of world economic growth.

Test flights of Rolls-Royce's upgraded Trent 1000 Package C configuration for Boeing's stretched 787-9 are underway on the engine maker's 747-200 flying testbed in Tucson, Ariz.

The U.K. coalition government sees the manufacturing sector—and the aerospace industry in particular—as a means of lifting the country out of the economic doldrums and onto a path to growth. But industry leaders are concerned that a lack of skills and perhaps more critically, interest in engineering from the up-and-coming generation of workers could starve the U.K. of aerospace growth at a time when industry is finally getting government support it needs.

The airline industry could be poised to regain the upward momentum that faltered badly in 2011, with new analysis signaling that the decline has leveled off and even started to reverse.

Pratt's geared turbofan is all fired up with somewhere to go.

In the wake of flight and certification testing of the PW1500G, Pratt & Whitney and Bombardier have made the surprise decision to build the CSeries without a novel propulsion feature known as the variable area nozzle (VAN).

Robert E. Rosati, who died on Oct. 24, was known as the “father” of the International Aero Engines (IAE) consortium, which brought together Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, MTU Aero Engines, Japanese Aero Engine Consortium and Fiat to develop the V2500. He was 88. Rosati flew 49 combat missions during World War II, forming an attachment to P&W engines as a top-turret gunner and radioman in Pratt-powered U.S. Navy aircraft. Rosati joined the company in June 1953 as a trainee test engineer on the J57.