Boeing has selected GE Aviation as the engine partner for its 777X development program.

What started as one of Boeing’s most difficult weeks—beginning with a fire and ending with a full-scale safety review of the 787’s design and production—rapidly turned into a public relations nightmare the following week when two airlines grounded their 787 fleets and images of a Dreamliner with emergency chutes deployed streamed over television and computer screens worldwide.

It was the aviation news of 2012 that received far too little attention. Airbus’s top brass acknowledged publicly, to a room full of reporters at the Farnborough Airshow no less, that there will be no all-new narrowbody commercial aircraft entering the market for at least another 18 years.

Embraer has unveiled three new suppliers for its next-generation E-Jets, which are scheduled to enter service in 2018.

Lufthansa’s supervisory board has confirmed the acquisition of 108 aircraft from Airbus and Boeing.

ATR’s planned 90-seat Next Generation Turboprop (NGTP) will maintain the same design philosophy behind today’s models—“Simple, simple, simple”—said ATR CEO Filippo Bagnato.

Russia’s RusLine regional carrier will acquire seven Bombardier CRJ200s from an unnamed US finance company.

Embraer reported a 2012 net profit of $348.6 million, significantly widened over $120.4 million in net income in 2011, on a 6.5% rise in revenue to $6.18 billion.