Aircraft & Propulsion

The walkout at Boeing halted much-needed progress on quality-focused changes and will make regaining momentum even more challenging.

Negotiators representing Boeing and the International Association of Machinists (IAM) will resume mediated talks Sept. 27.

AirAsia airplanes will fill most of the 14 lines of maintenance.

South Korean carrier T’Way is advancing its long-haul plans by securing a deal to lease Airbus A330neos from Avolon.

Airlines and lessors have at least one thing in common these days: unheard-of disruption as manufacturers fail to meet their delivery commitments.

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi will not launch Airbus A321XLR operations until 2026, when crucial upgrades should have been made to the aircraft's Pratt & Whitney GTF engine.

Aggregate Utilization Hours For Global Commercial Aircraft Size Segment

Boeing has tapped former astronaut and Blue Origin Senior Executive Nicholas Patrick as its first human factors chief engineer.

A HWB has emerged as one of the most promising potential zero-emission airliner concepts from a NASA study of commercially viable designs.

SIA Engineering Philippines Corporation is now an Embraer authorized service center for the E2 regional airliners, the first in the Asia Pacific region.

IATA has announced plans to create a platform to link airlines with SAF suppliers in a bid to accelerate and grow the availability and uptake of SAF.

Philippine Airlines is prioritizing aircraft retrofits and is setting a 2025 deadline to decide on the fate of other aircraft programs.

CFM International CEO Gael Meheust joins the podcast to dive into the remarkable story behind the CFM56: Hear how teams on opposite sides of the Atlantic persevered against the odds to propel the industry into a new age.

Boeing has presented what it terms its best and final offer to striking International Association of Machinists (IAM), the company says.

It’s still too soon to gauge the ramifications of the strike that has shut down production and deliveries of Boeing 737s, 767s, and 777s.

Airbus is dealing with “10 times more issues on a daily basis” in its supply chain than in the past, Sinead Cormican, SVP of leasing said.

Tests of a liquid hydrogen fuel system by MTU Aero Engines validate that a defined mass flow of preconditioned hydrogen can be fed safely into a fuel cell.

Comac C919 and ARJ21 aircraft are currently stationed at Lhasa Gonggar Airport (LXA) in Tibet to conduct high-altitude testing and R&D for the plateau variant.

A new Cambridge University report lays out four 2030 sustainable aviation goals that “must be initiated immediately and completed within five years..."

Twelve has raised $645 million in funding to help complete its power-to-liquid SAF production plant in Moses Lake, Washington and to pay for additional plants.

Commercial jets and turboprop aircraft in-service, by month (includes parked, excludes stored)

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European researchers are making progress with efforts to develop their own structurally braced and cantilevered slender wings for airliners.

The Biden administration’s SAF Grand Challenge set the goals of 3 billion gal. per year of domestic production by 2030.

Figeac Aero has signed three contracts with Airbus and another, unnamed company for the supply of A320 family aircraft elements.