Aircraft & Propulsion

Boeing handed over 32 737 MAXs and four 787s in August, marking three straight months with 30-plus deliveries.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby believes Boeing has “turned the corner,” impressed with the moves new chief executive Kelly Ortberg has made thus far.

Lufthansa Technik confirms it is developing a drag-reducing riblet film retrofit plan for the Airbus A330.

A Delta Air Lines A350 and CRJ-900 collided on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Sept. 10; the FAA and NTSB are investigating.

The Bavarian state government has cleared the way for a €50 million ($55 million) loan guarantee to support advanced air mobility startup Lilium.

Boeing’s latest commitment to change its corporate culture remains in its early days, Administrator Mike Whitaker said.

Air China’s first Comac C919 will debut on two routes: Beijing Capital-Shanghai Hongqiao and Beijing Capital-Hangzhou.

Dewar was most recently senior vice president and general manager of the Airbus A220 program.

GE Aerospace will launch several new AI- and robotics-powered MRO technologies at its soon-to-open Services Technology Acceleration Center.

GE Aerospace unit Aerospace Carbon Solutions has acquired Satavia, a UK-based company specializing in preventing the formation of contrails.

Machinists will vote Sept. 12, and already there is cause for concern.

This week’s Carbon Analysis looks at some global low-cost carriers, namely Frontier Airlines, Ryanair, Scoot and Wizz Air.

Egyptian LCC Air Cairo is aiming is to greatly increase its fleet, taking it to 72 aircraft by 2030.

El Al has become an air transport lifeline since war broke out in Gaza.

Boeing and the machinists union have reached a tentative, four-year agreement that would keep new commercial airplane production in the Pacific Northwest, provide significant pay and benefits boosts, and address gaps on other key issues that have plagued the company.

In August, Airbus delivered 47 aircraft to 31 customers, including 36 A320neo family aircraft, compared to 57 A320neo family deliveries in July.

Swiss startup Jekta has announced an order from South Korean lessor Solyu for 30 of its PHA-ZE 100 hydrogen-electric seaplanes.

WestJet appears to have secured deals for all nine 737-8 narrowbodies operated by rival Lynx Air when it ceased operations and went out of business in February.

2024 was supposed to be the year that eVTOL air taxis launched services, but by mid-year it was apparent that goal was no longer obtainable.

Malaysia Airlines has found a defect in high-pressure fuel hoses on an Airbus A350-900, an aircraft variant not covered by an EASA Emergency AD requiring checks of these components.

During the capacity drawdown, Malaysia Airlines has been cycling aircraft through increased maintenance checks, which has meant about 15 aircraft out of service at once compared to seven before the cuts.

Airbus must deliver just over 320 aircraft in the last three months of the year in order to reach its target of handing over around 770 aircraft to customers in 2024.

Listen in as Aviation Week’s propulsion editor updates our chief Boom skeptic on the company’s latest test flight.

Flight Friday looks at indexed cycles against the equivalent month in 2019 of passenger narrowbodies and how they have recovered to beyond pre-pandemic levels.

Construction of a Southwest Airlines-backed first-of-its-kind plant that will turn corn stover into cellulosic ethanol for upgrade to SAF has begun in Kansas.