Aviation Week editors discuss the latest news surrounding the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in March, 2014. If a “flaperon” found on the island this week is indeed from the Boeing 777-200ER, what does its location and condition tell us about the final minutes of the Beijing-bound widebody jet?
The discovery, not yet officially linked to Flight MH370, was made more than 16 months after the March 8, 2014, disappearance of 9M-MRO, the 777 that operated as MH370 between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing with 239 people on board.
British aero-engineering firm GKN is increasing its involvement in Airbus and Boeing commercial programs with the takeover of Dutch aerospace firm Fokker Technologies.
Dubai International Airport plans to begin using a camera-based foreign object debris (FOD) detection system early in 2016 to help the operators more quickly identify and remove debris from runway areas, eliminating a persistent safety problem.
Lufthansa celebrates its 60 years of long-haul, international flights by re-creating photos from the airline's history including photos from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Until now, Hainan Airlines and other HNA carriers have lacked a passenger airline at Shanghai with local privileges. When they convert Yangtze River Express, they will have one
Rapidly growing Chinese tourism, despite slower economic growth, is driving the increase in international air traffic, especially to other Asian nations.
The number of commercial airplanes flying worldwide is expected to increase from 21,600 in 2014 to 43,560 in 2034. To manage all that extra metal, a series of recruitment and training campaigns have been launched to train more air traffic controllers. Such efforts are well intentioned. Training more controllers is one sure-fire means of alleviating airspace congestion. But it also comes at a cost.
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.
For years, the Civil Aviation Administration of China insisted that China had three big airlines, three big bases and therefore three intercontinental gateways. Now dogged Chengdu has managed to join their ranks.
Consolidation opportunities could be drying up in Europe, although there is still some activity for those with the resources to pursue some small regional entities.
