Aircraft & Propulsion

Karolis Matulaitis, director at Kaunas International Airport, talks to James Pozzi about the changes to the operation during the novel coronavirus

Coronavirus has affected the hot, dry nations of the Middle East more gently than most regions, with fatalities from 6-29 per million, versus a global

Figuring out how to make passengers comfortable boarding aircraft again, without having to block off middle seats indefinitely, is a problem the

U.S. maintenance provider AAR plans to close its facility at Duluth, Minnesota by late July following a decrease in work related to the impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Within the past three years, British engine maker Rolls-Royce has been forced to pay almost $1 billion to settle a multinational bribery investigation

Ask the Editors: Airlines will be in cash-preservation mode as long as they can, so this year and 2021 could be tough for maintenance.

Neil Russell, chief operating officer at Aero Norway, discusses the engine MRO acquiring more engine models and looking at remote video for inspection work during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

C Cubed Aerospace hopes to receive an FAA supplemental type certificate for its Airbus A320 passenger-to-freighter conversion by the end of 2020, and another following not too far behind for its A321 conversion. The timing could be good given changes in the cargo-conversion dynamic.

“Ike” Eisenhower’s Connie is the only privately-owned former Air Force One saved from the scrap heap

India applied some of the most severe virus-retarding restrictions to both aviation and its economy generally.

Ask the Editors: Anything that lowers trip costs is a benefit to carriers right now, with a predicted shift to lower-capacity aircraft.

With coronavirus taking an increasing toll in Brazil, the country’s airlines have had to follow their peers around the world and ground progressively more aircraft.

The climbing robot will enable airlines and MROs to detect aircraft damage remotely through non-destructive testing data.

Reaffirming current protocols and developing new ones are both in the cards.

The decision last autumn of GECAS and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to launch a Boeing 777-300ERSF passenger-to-freighter conversion program is

Airlines are positioned to save $1.75 billion in MRO costs between now and 2022 by tapping engines on idled aircraft instead of sending powerplants in

Grounding aircraft when bookings collapsed for fear of coronavirus was a painful but easy decision for airlines. Now come the hard decisions, as

Anca Mihalache, VP Engine Trading at APOC Aviation, has been fielding questions from customers and lessors about the engine market, which has switched

As owners of their equipment, lessors are a part of the aviation industry with much to gain from data analysis.

Surplus parts will be available, but will airlines simply use their own?

Specialist aircraft-finance consultancy IBA has forecast that 7.5% of the world’s narrowbodies and 30% of widebodies could be prematurely withdrawn from service over the next 20 months, creating a 2,500-aircraft oversupply.

Ask the Editors: As airlines gain more leverage with lessors on aircraft maintenance, use of such parts may increase.

The past 20 years have seen the narrowbody engine segment dominated by two models, but in the latter parts of the second decade, their successor

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada expanded its “simplified package freighter” conversion program to its legacy Dash 8s, announcing Transport Canada approval and a launch customer.

The COVID-19 crisis has caused work to dry up for Australian MRO, and many are forced to scale back dramatically and stand down staff.