Air Transport

Lessons learned from the XB-1 form the prelude to Boom’s Overture plan as engine development becomes the key pacing item for the supersonic program.

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

Our Route Opportunities feature explores the latest unserved and underserved routes promoted through Routes 360, providing supporting information for airline network planners to consider and capitalize on.

With Aviation Week’s MRO Latin America coming up, this week’s Flight Friday looks at the last two years of flights for Latin American operators by aircraft class.

The independent Spanish engine company wants to leverage its manufacturing and MRO capabilities to reduce industry bottlenecks.

Improving mutual understanding between aviation and fuel industries will help solve the conundrum of SAF supply, demand and price.

University researchers continue to find new uses for abundant feedstocks ranging from recycled plastic to agricultural waste.

A manifest is not yet available. In the meantime, friends, neighbors, colleagues and family members are checking in with one another.

Because of limitations on biomass feedstock availability, power-to-liquid SAF is widely seen as the best longer-term path to decarbonizing aviation.

An NTSB-led investigation is in full swing to identify factors that led to the collision between an American Eagle CRJ-700 and a U.S. Army helicopter.

IndiGo has given further signals of its ambitions for entering the Western Europe market by reportedly applying for slots at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.

The global air cargo market reached a record level in 2024, according to the latest full-year figures released by the IATA.

Twenty-five organisations are being recognised in this year’s edition of the Routes Asia Awards. Meet our finalists.

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the aviation sector are anything but straightforward.

Wizz Air reports widening losses for the December quarter as groundings and foreign exchange fluctuations continued to weigh on its financial performance.

Lufthansa Cargo is set to transport around one million roses daily from Nairobi to Frankfurt in a Boeing 777 freighter in time for Valentine’s Day.

Passenger traffic between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia rose 34% to a record 1.338 million direct passengers in 2024.

Henok Teferra Shawl, Boeing Africa managing director, offers his insight of the liberalisation of Africa’s air transport market.

Several young figure skaters, their coaches and family members from the Washington, D.C., area were on American Airlines Flight 5342 Jan. 29 when it collided midair with a Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River.

AMS reached a loan agreement with the EIB initially valued at $182 million, which will partly fund the infrastructure projects planned over the next five years.

The Federal Aviation Administration in a statement said the aircraft, operating as American Airlines Flight 5342, was on approach to DCA's Runway 33.

After repeated delays, there is still no fixed start date, but airlines are relieved that the European Commission has decided on a progressive rollout.

As Delta Air Lines and United Airlines vie for the top spot in U.S. airline profitability, American Airlines is overcoming cost headwinds.

In 2024, OEMs delivered 1,251 commercial aircraft, compared to 1,394 in 2023.

In 2024, OEMs recorded gross commercial orders for 1,906 aircraft, compared to 4,018 in 2023.