Air Transport

Airbus is set to restart ground tests of the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G-powered A320neo this week following a six-week hiatus.

Volcanic eruptions can cause widespread flight disruptions. Now Israel’s Elbit is working to upgrade its low-visibility enhanced vision systems to detect ash clouds.

Based on the flight-test campaign so far, both the CS100 and CS300 have about 10% more range than originally targeted, better payload and airfield performance and lower fuel burn.

Claims and counterclaims continue to be hurled in the ongoing dispute between U.S. and European-based carriers versus the Big Three Gulf airlines.

Tiny Bluetooth devices will offer a variety of new services for passengers and airports as beacon technology goes mainstream.

U.S. EPA finding on harmful aviation emissions stirs debate, but is a key step to a global standard to reduce CO2 from aircraft.

Senators would grant U.S. access to more Russian engines and cut additional funding for NASA’s Commercial Crew program. The TSA is in a tailspin, and a company helps leaders reach informed decisions.

OEMs must question assumptions about what makes the supply chain competitive and rethink the way they allocate resources accordingly.

The industry seeks to retain trade links and free movement of labor that have helped spur growth in the U.K.’s £62 billion aerospace sectors. Channel: defense, commercial

It is supersonic chicken-and-egg: a low-boom demonstrator is needed to enable quiet supersonic transport, but is there market demand for a demonstrator?

More than 8% of the world’s population lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, but they generate only 5% of air traffic. How can the region improve its fortunes?

Lufthansa, seeking to reduce the cost of booking through GDS networks, will impose a fee, a move that is not without risk.

Our editors discuss the escalation in the battle between the big U.S. and Middle East carriers — and why the U.S. airlines are not unified in their stance.

Boeing's Current Market Outlook reports an anticipated doubling of the commercial-airline fleet over the next 20 years, with Asia receiving the bulk of new-aircraft deliveries.

It will be at least two years before Safran can commit to increasing production of jet engines, even as customers Airbus and Boeing plan to boost production of some aircraft models over the next three years.

Turkey believes that a regional airliner can boost economic growth and social unity.

Embraer’s CEO is optimistic about prospects for the E2 commercial jet family, but has concerns about Brazil’s defense budget cuts and what they may mean for the KC-390 program.

IATA Director General Tony Tyler referred to “underlying tension,” but Clark instead sees the situation as a “7.8 on the Richter scale about to go off.”

Twin-aisle performance at single-aisle costs—that’s the tough task airlines have given Boeing as it studies a next-generation “middle of the market” 757 successor.

Months into his job as Bombardier CEO, Alain Bellemare is focused on meeting current challenges.

Remote towers are a reality in Europe, but it could possibly be years more before they are accepted in the U.S.

Airbus Group CEO talks with Aviation Week about his company’s future and revisits some triumphs and travails of the past.

Industry weighs benefits of satellite-based landing systems against cost, logistical realities.

IATA is stepping up its campaign to press Venezuela to release $3.7 billion in funds that belong to airlines.

“People forget we’re a young airline,” he said, referring to Etihad’s network. Equity-partners Air Berlin, Alitalia and Jet Airways could fuel additional growth in Europe and India. Growth in China and South America, on the other hand, is most likely to stem from codeshare partners.