Air Transport

From Freddie Laker to Michael O’Leary, many airline CEOs have pursued a sustainable long-haul, low-cost agenda. No one has succeeded yet, although that day will come.

For years, we complained about lack of political leadership. Now we have it, but industry can’t seem to come together.

NASA acknowledges that an Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System developed initially for military use could be adapted to commercial aircraft, but cautions that such a transition remains some way off.

A CRT Capital study warns that parts of Boeing and Airbus backlogs might be under threat if lobbying campaigns against Gulf carriers bear fruit.

Three aviation consultancies have placed the value of an American Airlines 777-300ER delivered in early February at between $165-170 million, a regulatory filing by the airline shows. The aircraft’s list price is $330 million.

Cathay will grow its overall cargo capacity by about 10% this year, with a similar increase in both its dedicated freighters and in the belly capacity of its passenger fleet, Cathay Pacific Director-Cargo James Woodrow told Aviation Daily.

With the capabilities of installed avionics but more flexibility, next-generation electronic flight bags—not tablets—will bring legacy cockpits into the secure NextGen era.

Australian and New Zealand carriers want to tap into the burgeoning services from China by forming alliances with their Chinese counterparts, although regulators are impeding some efforts.

Delivering the assurance of safety by increasing human presence on the flight deck is hardly a sure bet.

The technology exists to physically take command away from a pilot and is in operation with the U.S. Air Force.

Aviation has become technically safer and safer. Is it now time to address the pilot as a safety concern?

NASA and industry are making progress on the human factors aspects of a long-distance relationship between two pilots flying an airliner – one in the air and one on the ground.

The new French carrier has 55-65% load factors between Newark and Paris—so why will it soon fly to London?

The world of air transport has experienced two major disputes that have led to fierce discussions bordering on open hostility, serious threats and tensions that have not been easy to overcome. First the European Commission (EC) tried to impose its view of how aviation should tackle the increase of CO 2 emissions on the rest of the industry and was stopped only at the last minute when it became clear a trade war would be unavoidable. Then European and U.S. airlines launched a massive anti-Gulf carrier campaign.

How well the Clean Sky 2 research program balances near- and long-term technologies could prove crucial to Europe’s civil-aircraft industry

CEO Mauro Moretti is grappling with the Italian group’s debt in a bid to restore Finmeccanica to profitability by the end of this decade.

Investigators of downed Germanwings find that the first officer “deliberately crashed” the Airbus A320 into the side of a mountain; debates about psychological oversight of pilots and cockpit access are already beginning.

Germanwings crash could spur a revival of technology solutions to scuttle deliberate pilot, passenger actions to down an aircraft.

Boeing assesses 787 ecoDemonstrator results as 757 debuts to focus on aerodynamic tests

Authorities believe the first officer was alone on the flight deck, alive, and likely not incapacitated during the flight’s fatal descent.

What could spur Alcoa to pony up maybe $5 billion in less than a year? Aerospace and defense market share

The last nine months were earth-shattering for Alcoa.

The seventh and final year of NASA’s Environmentally Responsible Aviation project is on target for a grand finale: the goal of simultaneous cuts in drag, weight, fuel burn, noise and emissions seems eminently doable moving forward.

As bypass ratios increase and engine cores get smaller, Pratt & Whitney comes up with a unique solution to the challenges of small scales inside future turbofans.

U.S. carriers feel a deep sense of frustration as they watch the likes of Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways penetrate the American market from nearly 12,000 kilometers away.