Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
MIT flies solid-state; Boeing launches SkyGrid; X-59 metal cut; NASA’s liquid battery; air mobility tie-up; unmanned cargo biplane; drones demo 5G.
Aerospace

By Adrian Schofield
Air New Zealand has introduced its first Airbus A321neo, with Virgin Australia and the Qantas Group due to follow with their own new-generation narrowbodies.
Air Transport

By Alan Dron
UK long-haul carrier Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it is “reviewing its options” for a possible bid for Exeter-based UK regional airline Flybe.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
The European Commission is investigating whether global distribution systems Amadeus and Sabre restrict competition.
Air Transport

Just weeks ago, African low-cost carrier, Fastjet, was teetering on the brink of collapse. But a cash infusion and improved operational indicators are giving CEO, Nico Bezuidenhout, cause for cautious optimism. Alan Dron reports.
Air Transport

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Graham Warwick
A year after giving its C Series program to Airbus, Bombardier unloads its turboprop business. Is the CRJ line next? Aviation Week editors discuss.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Despite good salaries and working conditions, French companies have yet to attract enough sheet metal workers, fitters and cutters for its production lines.
Air Transport

By Kevin Michaels
Relatively stable labor rates, intellectual property protection, manufacturing expertise and growing maintenance services could attract more U.S. aerospace work to Mexico.
Air Transport

Boeing has brought together the major fuselage sections to form the first 777X aircraft that will take to the skies in 2019.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
A new regulation for upset recovery and prevention training is creating a market for companies operating aerobatic aircraft and targeting commercial pilots.
Air Transport

By Karen Walker
Boeing will hold a set of regional meetings and conference calls next week with 737 MAX customers to address their questions and concerns about a new system that was introduced on the re-engined narrowbody.
Program Management

By Thierry Dubois
Inmarsat has signed agreements with five major air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in support of Iris, a European program aimed at increasing the use of datalink to support controller-pilot communications and improved trajectory management.
Air Transport

By Thierry Dubois
Inmarsat has signed agreements with five major air navigation service providers (ANSPs) in support of Iris, a European program aimed at increasing the use of datalink to support controller-pilot communications and improved trajectory management.
Air Transport

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Officials of Alitalia’s potential rescuer, Italian rail company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) are talking to many operators, including UK LCC easyJet, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing FS CEO Gianfranco Battisti.
Air Transport

By Lee Ann Shay
About a month after issuing requirements to upgrade software on CFM International Leap-1A engines, EASA has mandated similar actions for the -1B variant due to similar designs.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways plans to begin using a new satellite terminal at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport beginning Dec. 10.
Air Transport

Chen Chuanren
AirAsia X Group, the long-haul arm of LCC AirAsia, recorded a net loss of 197.5 million Malaysian ringgit ($47.2 million), deepened from a MYR43.4 million loss in the year-ago quarter, as operating costs continued to increase.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Boeing and Austin, Texas-based artificial-intelligence (AI) startup SparkCognition have launched SkyGrid, a joint-venture company that will develop an airspace management platform for unmanned aircraft and urban air mobility (UAM).
Air Transport

By Bradley Perrett
The HNA Group is selling down its share in Urumqi Airlines to 30%, with the Urumqi city government taking the remaining stake.
Air Transport

Traffic growth in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will generate demand for more than 1,200 new aircraft over the next two decades, more than doubling the size of the region’s fleet by 2037, according to Airbus’ Global Market Forecast, unveiled at the Wings of the Future conference in Moscow Nov. 20.
Air Transport

Central and Eastern European LCC Wizz Air—which launched Airbus A320 operations at its Vienna, Austria base in June—said its plans for expansion are on track.
Air Transport

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia´s State Transport Leasing Co. (STLC) has signed letters of intent (LOIs) with Russian domestic airlines Alrosa and RusLine to lease two Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) to each carrier for a 12-year period.
Air Transport

By Jens Flottau
Airbus made two executive management appointments Nov. 21, naming Dominik Asam chief financial officer (CFO) and Michael Schoellhorn chief operating officer (COO) for Airbus Commercial Aircraft.
Air Transport

Africa’s most profitable airline has been put up for partial privatisation. Kaleyesus Bekele explains.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
With the flight of the first multi-engine hybrid-electric aircraft, the combination of electric and conventional propulsion takes a key step forward.
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