Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 20, 2016
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer has opened its subsidiary aircraft seating manufacturing facility in Titusville, Florida.
Sep 20, 2016
Portuguese carrier Azores Airlines will lease six new Airbus A321neos—including four A321LR long-range versions—from US lessor Air Lease Corp. (ALC).
Sep 20, 2016
Air France will begin operations with new Boeing 787-9s on Jan. 9, 2017, with a service from Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG) to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, the airline announced Sept. 20.
Sep 20, 2016
Morocco’s national airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) inaugurated 3X-weekly nonstop Boeing 787 between Washington Dulles International Airport and Casablanca on Sept. 8, signaling growing commercial ties between the US and Morocco. Until now, passengers traveling between Washington and Morocco had to fly through New York—RAM’s first US destination, or catch a different connecting flight abroad.
Sep 19, 2016
Pratt & Whitney is taking twice as long to build geared turbofan (GTF) engine fan blades as would be ideal, which is the primary cause of GTF delivery delays, the CEO of Pratt’s parent company said.
Mar 25, 2022
Infrastructure consultancy Aecom has partnered with wastewater processing company Genifuel to scale up the production of a carbon-neutral sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from algal blooms and sewage sludge.
Mar 25, 2022
As an immediate priority action, the Canberra government should create a high-level Jet Council to accelerate the development of a domestic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry in Australia, a new report has recommended.
Mar 24, 2022
The UK’s Cranfield Aerospace Solutions has secured £10.5 million ($13.8 million) in investment from HydrogenOne Capital Growth and Safran to develop hydrogen fuel-cell electric propulsion for aviation.
Mar 24, 2022
The Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW) Airbus A320 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) aircraft has attained EASA supplemental type certificate, around three months after the aircraft conducted its first flight.
Mar 24, 2022
Amid sanctions triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine, many short-term and medium-term initiatives are in play to keep industry going.
Mar 24, 2022
ATI study concludes green hydrogen is most viable zero-carbon fuel, lays out goals with detailed future airliner concepts.
Mar 23, 2022
European OEMs and equipment suppliers are studying various configurations for the use of hydrogen on board, before embarking on hydrogen propulsion and ultra-efficient aircraft programs in the 2027-2029 time frame.
Mar 22, 2022
For several weeks, both the air transport industry—including OEMs—and some EU governments have lobbied for more ambitious targets.