Boeing’s appointment of former GE executive Kevin McAllister as its new CEO of Commercial Airplanes marks the latest and most decisive step in its aftermarket evolution.
It was revealed that Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Group had acquired $1.7 billion of shares in American Airlines, Delta and United, and that an investment in Southwest Airlines was also likely.
The futuristic credentials of predictive maintenance are often described by the ability of aircraft health monitoring systems to update ground teams of faults before a flight has even touched down.
The International Bureau of Aviation (IBA) surveyed the industry and found that airlines spend $1.65m, on average, on extra costs related to each narrowbody redelivery to lessors.
Marketing for the Boeing 787 has focused heavily on its oversized windows, which replace the mechanical blinds found on other commercial aircraft with an electrochromic dimming function.
It’s been an exciting year for commercial aero-engines, with new-generation turbofans entering service and subtle, but important shifts in the aftermarket taking hold.
The investigation into the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has finished examining several aircraft parts washed up on east African beaches and nearby islands.
With the next-generation air traffic management era commencing in North America and Europe in 2020, the airline avionics retrofit market will grow as more legacy aircraft see extended service.
