Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus and Daher are negotiating for the potential acquisition of some Daher activities in A320 family aerostructures subassembly near Nantes, Western France.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Pathway Energy has emerged from stealth with plans to build the first in a series of commercial-scale SAF production facilities on the Gulf Coast.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau, Daniel Williams
Listen in as editors discuss whether Airbus will meet its delivery target and the long climb ahead for Boeing.
Check 6

By Michael Bruno
Boeing has pledged to invest $1 billion in its South Carolina operation as it looks to double 787 widebody production within two years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
Russia’s Aeroflot does not expect to receive its first MC-21 passenger airliners until 2026, a company official says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The announcement coincided with the airline’s first direct flight from Paris to New Caledonia’s capital Noumea, via Bangkok.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
While demand for new aircraft remains strong, the industry must make big steps to increase production in 2025 and come closer to satisfying customers.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Joe Anselmo
Many think Comac is the next challenger to the Airbus-Boeing duopoly, but Embraer is the company to watch in the near term.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Electric aircraft developer Beta Technologies and Bristow Group’s Norwegian subsidiary have signed a letter of intent to conduct trial cargo flights in 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Material flow from suppliers continues to be GE Aerospace’s output-pacing item for both original equipment and maintenance services heading into 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
France’s Aarok uncrewed air system has moved a step closer to flight now that developer Turgis Gaillard has received a French Defense Ministry study contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Christine Boynton
Alaska Air Group expects a commercial strategy and synergies from its merger with Hawaiian Airlines to drive $1 billion of incremental profit by 2027.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
The evenly shared effort gave results that may inform crucial technology orientations for all three companies.
Emerging Technologies

Aviation Week Network Staff
The company handed over 13 aircraft in November—all from pre-strike inventory.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Sean Broderick
Boeing has restarted 737 production and expects its widebody facilities in Everett, Washington, to follow in the coming days.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
A former Airbus facility in Russia has been used to manufacture spare parts for the A321’s drainage system through reverse engineering.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Leased aircraft now make up more than 51.3% of the global fleet, totaling over 12,000 aircraft, but Air Lease founder Steve Udvar-Házy expects this to settle.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay Pacific has welcomed a new report on sustainable aviation fuel that proposes a wide range of measures to encourage the use of such fuel in Hong Kong.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Helen Massy-Beresford
IATA says the pace of growth in SAF volumes remains disappointing, and more action is needed—especially from traditional oil companies—to boost quantities.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
Cambodia Angkor Air is set for a rebrand, with the flag carrier also slated to more than double its fleet of ATR 72 turboprops.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
KAI will continue manufacturing the Boeing 737 MAX's empennage into the 2030s following an extension of its contract with Boeing.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By James Pozzi
Rolls-Royce has restarted civil engine activity at its Dahlewitz, Germany, facility by inducting its first Trent 1000 as it continues to ramp up capacity.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
IATA plans to look at whether there is evidence of anti-competitive behavior among aircraft manufacturers and the aerospace supply chain, as delays and shortages continue.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The propulsively efficient open fan forms a center piece of CFM’s RISE technology but its large diameter poses integration challenges for single aisle airliners
Aircraft & Propulsion

Shantanu Misra
Hydrogen-powered hybrid aircraft can offer environmental and economic benefits by combining battery-electric and hydrogen systems for optimized energy use.
Aircraft & Propulsion