Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
The nine 787 handovers were the highest monthly total for the widebodies since December 2023’s 11.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Sean Broderick
Boeing closed 2024 with some notable cleaning up of its orderbook and a few positive delivery-related developments, including a solid month of 787 hand-overs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing is set to conduct a functional check flight on the third 777-9 test aircraft, marking a return to flight for the stalled certification program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Suppliers polled by Jefferies in December 2024 expected the 737 program to hit an average production rate of just 26.4 a month in 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lori Ranson
Porter Aircraft Leasing and Avolon have entered into a sale and leaseback agreement covering four Pratt & Whitney engines powering Embraer E195-E2 aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
A new report from a new report by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) highlights the sector’s environmental challenges.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Aviation sustainability investor SkiesFifty has agreed to acquire 200,000 tons of marine-based CO2 removals from Gigablue.
Emerging Technologies

By Guy Norris
The next generation of single-aisle airliners will depend on very high bypass propulsion systems with much larger fan diameters than those in service today.
Emerging Technologies

By William Moore
This week, we review the 2024 CO2 emissions of Delta, Emirates and Lufthansa, but unlike usual, this analysis focuses on total emissions rather than CO2 per ASK
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Sean Broderick, Adrian Schofield
Officials will order step up pilot training and improvements to antennas at several airports based on an investigation prompted by the fatal Jeju Air accident.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European aviation’s projected growth is incompatible with the region’s climate goals, according to a new report by Brussels-based NGO Transport & Environment.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Airbus annual commercial aircraft deliveries between 2014 and 2024.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Graham Warwick
BAE Systems plans to provide the energy storage system for an Airbus project to demonstrate microhybridization for commercial aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Ben Goldstein
The divergence between the prospects of eVTOL startups in Europe and the U.S. is growing starker by the week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
ATR says it will announce more orders soon as it wraps up its 2024 books while announcing that lessor Abelo has agreed to buy additional ATR 72-600s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
Austrian Airlines is looking at again extending the operation of its three remaining 767-300ERs as management worries about further delays to 787 deliveries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
Flight Friday looks back at annual utilization split out by aircraft class (narrowbody, widebody, regional Jets and regional turboprops) from 2019 to 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Spirit AeroSystems is making progress in its bid sell its Prestwick, Scotland, facility that supports Airbus programs, Airbus' Commercial CEO said.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Christine Boynton, Sean Broderick
Deeper involvement with suppliers is helping Airbus address supply chain constraints pressuring aircraft production and delivery targets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
Airbus delivered a record 123 aircraft in December and said it had booked 826 net orders throughout 2024, factoring in 52 cancellations.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Graham Warwick
Flight testing of a hybrid-electric powertrain on an ATR 72 demonstrator has been included in the third call for proposals for Clean Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Adrian Schofield
Air New Zealand has reached a sale-leaseback agreement with lessor Avolon for the airline’s first electric aircraft order.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Taiwan’s Starlux is broadening its plan to establish a freighter fleet by doubling its existing order for Airbus A350Fs.
Airlines & Lessors

By Lori Ranson
Canada's Porter Airlines has finalized a sale and leaseback agreement with Munich-based GOAL Aircraft Leasing for two Embraer E195-E2s,
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
AAR Corp’s top executive is not ready to project a surge in availability of much-coveted used serviceable material (USM).
Supply Chain