With minimal effort, airlines will be able to take advantage of the most advantageous, curvaceous new NextGen procedures with their older-generation jets.

While South African Airways (SAA) has spent most of the last decade in decline, its low-cost offshoot – Mango Airlines – has traveled in the opposite direction.

For the first time, P&W’s UTC sibling United Technologies Aerospace Systems (UTAS) was heavily involved in the proceedings. UTAS, Windsor Locks’ biggest employer, used the entire first day of the event to showcase its vast product range and, more importantly, its massive resources and capabilities for technological innovation and developmen

Russia rolled out its challenge to Airbus and Boeing yesterday (June 8), with the first MC-21-300 appearing before the public at Irkut’s factory.

Tom Cooper, vice president of CAVOK, says with the new generation aircraft growing to 50% of the world fleet in 10 years, the MRO industry needs to efficiently get on board with big data.

Answered by Ludek Stasek, technical director for Czech carrier that provides scheduled, charter and business-jet flights to more than 300 airports. Travel Service launched scheduled service in 2004. It flew 5.7 million passengers in 2015.

Despite the increased availability of drones, their use for aircraft maintenance operations divides opinion. Scepticism remains over whether drone-led maintenance will one day become as common in the hangar as a torque wrench.

Made using addictive manufacturing (AM), the mini plane is the world’s first 3D printed aircraft and the OEM showcased its latest innovation at the ILA Berlin Air Show 2016.