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High-performance capable oils can cut maintenance costs by reducing coking and component failure.

Boeing has closed out C-17 deliveries and seven decades of aircraft production in Long Beach, California.

What was the purpose of Vanity Fair’s December issue article blasting outsourced maintenance? Is it a propaganda tool?

Revenue-generating numbers touted by OEMs for airliner cabin modifications are not necessarily produced in reality, a senior executive at Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Tigerair cautioned.

Being a low-cost carrier does not mean getting low-cost maintenance, a group of executives with Singapore-based LCCs agreed.

A 1926 letter from the magazine's founder describes the ‘aeronautical celebrities’ who played an important part in the founding of Aviation Week in 1916.

Despite some successes, the A380 faces an uncertain future, and the decision about moving forward with an A380neo will be a difficult one for Airbus.

As Sikorsky looks forward to the pending merger with Lockheed Martin, two advanced rotorcraft programs are progressing at pace.

Before his keynote speech at MRO Europe, Bruce Dickinson discussed what lessons have Dickinson has learned from Iron Maiden Tour and how it applies to MRO.

NASA is moving forward in the real world with studies of concepts for an ascent vehicle to lift humans from the surface of the red planet.

The world’s largest fly-in should be a fun, peacetime party. There’s no need for it to involve the chaos of air combat.

Chapman says he was less constrained by airspace boundaries than he was at the Paris Air Show because there is no nearby airport to Oshkosh that could create a traffic conflict.

This writer, working for Reuters news agency 35 years ago, had bagged a rare flight in an operational B-52. We would “bomb” a bridge, then return home.

On Monday, July 20, Icon Aircraft founder and CEO Kirk Hawkins presented keys to the first production A5 light-sport amphibian aircraft to EAA Young Eagles Chairman Sean D. Tucker and EAA Chairman Jack Pelton at AirVenture.

Quest Kodiak 100 creator Tom Hamilton clearly recalls the summit meeting he attended at Mission Aviation Fellowship’s headquarters in the late 1990s.

Speaking with ATW on the eve of the IATA AGM in Miami, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Director General Andrew Herdman said that 2014 had been “very tough” for the region, with the majors and low-cost carriers struggling alike.

Müller told Aviation Week at the International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting (IATA AGM) in Miami that he expects major progress in that regard within the next five years, as countries continue to liberalize their air service agreements and allow their national carriers to combine forces.

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr suggests that the airline industry should take a close look at how WTO has been dealing with trade disputes in other industries and try to learn from those mechanisms.

LOT—which hosts the next Star Alliance board meeting in Warsaw June 22-24—hopes to use that opportunity to explore greater partnership opportunities with its fellow Star members.

The Gulf carrier issue is not on the IATA meeting agenda for a simple reason of protocol: The association represents airlines from both increasingly hostile camps and cannot take a stance without hurting the interests of important members.

One-hundred writers, selected to create a collection of 100 stories over 100 years, which will only be read in 2114: This is the Future Library.

American Airlines Chairman and CEO Doug Parker spoke with ATW Editor-In-Chief Karen Walker about the progress made, and the challenges still ahead.

Chinese business jet orders appear to be tracing out the beginnings of a curve that looks like a bathtub.