Aircraft & Propulsion

Engine lessor and spare parts provider Willis Lease Finance has suffered from falling demand for maintenance as its leasing and sales revenues

The big COVID-19 damage to Asian aviation has been in international flights, which unfortunately are a huge portion of commercial flying among small

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) plans to step up its MRO activities in the wake of its recent decision to pause almost all development of its M90

While powerplant suppliers Safran and MTU Aero Engines posted expected drops in aftermarket revenues for the last quarter, executives from each company highlighted several trends that support a cautiously optimistic outlook.

The virus crisis is hitting the bottom lines of most MROs pretty hard now and will for some time to come. But companies that offer the right portfolio

Lithuania-based FL Technics’ engine division has opened a new facility for CFM56 family engine MRO quick turn activities in Kaunas. The new hangar

Wales-based MRO Caerdav plans to expand its activities by entering the passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion market.

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 crisis during 2020, Alitalia says it will look to extend its heavy maintenance insourcing program and maintain

Some models, like the Airbus A380, are all but done for good.

China’s GDP grew 4.9% in the third quarter of 2020, after increasing 3.2% in the second quarter, dramatically better than the western economies still

The aviation aftermarket is just in the first phase of a long adjustment to the virus crisis. Coming up in the long road back to health will probably

A recovery to 2019 levels of profitability remains distant, but carriers believe they can stem daily losses in the medium-term future.

With aircraft grounded, engine shop visits being avoided and airlines cannibalizing parked equipment, the demand for spare engines is plumbing

One of many uncertainties about how the engine aftermarket will develop over the next few years concerns the number of mid-life and older engines that

Caroline Vandedrinck, who became SR Technics' senior VP sales on Sept. 1, talks about engine services trends and the outlook for used serviceable

The low-cost carrier is developing new markets at home. The industry returned to domestic activity levels months ago.

Aviation Week editors honored more than two dozen 2020 Laureate Awards winners from around the globe in a virtual event.

Engine shop visits will not return to 2019 levels until 2024, according to consultancy IBA. In 2020 they are down roughly 70% on the previous year

The virus crisis has been tough on all independent MROs. But large MROs often depend on large orders from large carriers, which can evaporate in a

The traffic crash, troubled airline and lessor finances and coming aircraft tear downs are going to dramatically reshape aircraft and engine part

OEM trims 20-year fleet size, delivery projections in first forecast since pandemic started.

With Chinese domestic flights now running at or above year-ago levels, and international flights at about 40% of year-ago levels, Chinese MROs are not

With about a thousand aircraft due to be returned from leases without onward lessees in sight in 2021, the aftermarket for these assets will be much

Prior to the pandemic, Southeast Asia was one of aviation’s biggest growth markets and as a result the region saw the launch of numerous new MRO

Fleet upheavals caused by the coronavirus pandemic may have an impact on the feedstock available for conversion.