Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce is now focusing on improving durability and is providing new details of a strategy to double time-on-wing by 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
First flight tests are planned as early as 2024.
Emerging Technologies

By Adrian Schofield
SpiceJet stated categorically that “it has no plans whatsoever to file for insolvency.”
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Turkish Airlines expects to announce an order for 600 aircraft in June, part of the airline’s plans to expand its fleet to over 800 aircraft by 2033.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick, Jens Flottau
A May 11 airworthiness directive requires A380 operators to calculate “factored time on ground” and conduct inspections based on Airbus’ revised criteria.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
First flight is scheduled for 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Victoria Moores
TAP received its first A321LR in April 2019 and has since grown its fleet to 12 of the type, with another scheduled for delivery in July.
Airports & Networks

By Linda Blachly
ICAO pivots to prioritize sustainability over safety.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Christine Boynton, Lori Ranson
Supply chain problems and delayed deliveries from aircraft OEMs are pushing carriers to turn elsewhere to secure sufficient capacity for long-term demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Joe Anselmo, Sean Broderick, Guy Norris, Daniel Williams
What's behind the grounding of scores of airplanes and how Pratt is working to fix it.
Check 6

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Ryanair plans to drive growth across the region by cutting air fares further, having made the decision to move up the scale in seats per aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
Rolls expects to generate 1,200-1,300 civil shop visits—air transport and business aviation—in 2023, compared to 1,044 in 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted the ban on flights to Georgia in place since July 2019 after protests in Tbilisi, but sanctions may limit services.
Airports & Networks

By Alan Dron
Emirates' Tim Clark warns that commercial aviation emission reduction goals will not be met with existing pathways as he is injecting $200 million into eco-R&D.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sash Tusa
The civil aerospace industry is suffering from an institutional form of “long COVID.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Boeing has set up four sites to modify non-compliant vertical fin attachment fittings on undelivered 737 MAXs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. startup has commissioned a pilot-production unit, or skid, at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Honeywell has launched processing technology to produce eSAF via their UOP eFining methanol-to-jet process that converts e-methanol to eSAF at high yields.
Emerging Technologies

By Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno
Boeing’s biggest supplier stumbles amid another production-related issue.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Sean Broderick
Boeing delivered just 26 aircraft in April as the latest 737 program issue cut into that model’s customer handovers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Latecoere has found a recapitalization agreement with majority shareholder Searchlight Capital Partners, the European Investment Bank and lenders.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Ryanair has placed a firm order for 150 Boeing 737-10 aircraft for delivery between 2027 and 2033.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Delivery delays for Virgin Australia’s first Boeing 737-8 aircraft means the carrier is unable to use the aircraft to launch flights to Tokyo as planned.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
Newly crowned British monarch King Charles III broke ground on May 9 on the new UK research facility.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
European airlines fear that the cost of compliance will put them at a disadvantage.
Airlines & Lessors