Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 14, 2013
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.
Mar 14, 2013
Embraer has unveiled three new suppliers for its next-generation E-Jets, which are scheduled to enter service in 2018.
Mar 14, 2013
Lufthansa’s supervisory board has confirmed the acquisition of 108 aircraft from Airbus and Boeing.
Mar 14, 2013
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.
Mar 13, 2013
Russia’s RusLine regional carrier will acquire seven Bombardier CRJ200s from an unnamed US finance company.
Sep 20, 2021
As manufacturers strive to reduce the fuel burn and emissions of their next generation of commercial airliners, longer wings are near the top of the list.
Sep 17, 2021
The credit is intended to stimulate production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by reducing the price premium over conventional jet fuel.
Sep 17, 2021
Canada’s SAF+ Consortium has produced the first few liters of synthetic kerosene at its pilot plant in Montreal.
Sep 17, 2021
Swedish regional BRA, OEM ATR and fuel supplier Neste partner to certify 100% SAF for ATR regional turboprops; first test flight in 2022.
Sep 16, 2021
Boeing has about 330 737 MAXs in its inventory built before December 2020’s delivery re-start, suggesting the company is on track to meet its goal of clearing the backlog by 2023, an Aviation Week data analysis shows.
Sep 16, 2021
The 50-seat regional jet was a game changer in the early part of the current century. But the good times couldn’t last for small RJs.
Sep 16, 2021
In the age of transformation to a more sustainable way of flying and with revolutionary technologies not available yet, a new generation of turboprops look like a valid interim step.
Sep 16, 2021
Royal Dutch Shell plans to build an 820,000-tons-a-year biofuels facility in Rotterdam, Netherlands, which should be among the biggest sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production facilities in Europe.