Travel technology provider SITA is exploring the use of blockchain technology as a platform for generating secure single travel “tokens” that could potentially streamline a passenger’s progress through all airport processes involving the scanning of personal documentation.

Will airliners always look the way they do today? NASA thinks not, and the US research agency has bold plans to return to the heydays of X-planes.

The next wave of airline IT changes may include new jargon: Speech recognition to turn voice into text, natural language processing and artificial intelligence.

Aircraft News-May 24, 2016

Réunion Island leisure carrier Air Austral has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787, becoming the first French operator of the type.

TAP Portugal has taken delivery of its first Embraer E190, which will be operated by regional subsidiary TAP Express.

Low-cost carrier Norwegian has firmed up eight Boeing 737 MAX 8 purchase options and agreed to lease two more 787-9s.

The Embraer E190-E2 has achieved first flight in São José dos Campos, Brazil.