Jambojet has partnered with Cellulant, a Pan-African payments company, to reward Jambojet customers with discount vouchers as they book flights.

Middle East Airlines (MEA) has signed an agreement to join the community of Skywise Health Monitoring (SHM) users.

Airbus placed orders and commitments totalling 408 aircraft (269 firm orders and 139 commitments) during the Dubai Airshow.

IATA is focusing on standards, digitalisation and addressing the skilled labour shortage to build resilience for ground handling activities.

China’s AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute says it has completed construction of a new hypersonic wind tunnel that is reportedly able to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to Mach 8. 

Astroscale’s docking port; Synthetic avgas; Kinetic launch; Next-gen gyroplane; Blood delivery by UAS.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

As Dubai Airshow closes its doors following what is probably the its biggest and best show yet, we look at the event from satellites and from the show floor.