Aircraft & Propulsion

The likely return of the 737 MAX is adding to what many fear will be overcapacity as airline recovery stalls.

With work reduced to documentation, it is not clear how the group is preserving corporate knowledge for a possible restart.

Portuguese wet-lease specialist Hi Fly has announced it is phasing out it’s single Airbus A380 at the end of the lease term later this year.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) will shift aerospace workers to other divisions for the duration of the downturn in demand for commercial airliners.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) wants to move some employees from its suspended SpaceJet program to defense activities, as part of a wider intention to apply skills from the civil aeronautics business to the rest of the group.

Ask the Editors: Deciding whether to diversify away from the Boeing 737, Southwest must weigh the pros and cons of a dual fleet.

COMAC has reiterated its plan to achieve certification for the C919 narrowbody airliner in 2021, adding that it will try to deliver the first unit in the same year.

Tecnam’s electric; China unmanned test sites; Canadian AAM; Volocopter’s UAM backbone; Beam solar charger; Loon stratospheric record

Flight tests for the first time synchronously measured noise on the ground and on the aircraft.

SkyWest Airlines will add 20 more Bombardier CRJ-700s to its contract with American Airlines, boosted by strong demand for dual-class regional jets

Safran’s research and technology engineers are studying ways to improve fuel efficiency by 20% for an engine that would enter into service in 2035, says CEO Philippe Petitcolin.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has suspended development of the SpaceJet for more than three years.

Francisco Gomes Neto talks with Aviation Week in his first interview for the aerospace trade press.

Why Honeywell Aerospace’s chief sees a bright future for the industry despite today’s COVID-19 woes.

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air believes the COVID-19 pandemic is creating opportunities to acquire used aircraft without huge capital outlays.

Wales-based MRO Caerdav plans to expand its activities by entering the passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion market.

For sure, 2020 will go down as the worst year for commercial aviation since World War II, but the question increasingly is, will 2021 be much better

The Canadian Advanced Air Mobility consortium has been launched in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the goal of accelerating the development and commercialization of electric vertical-takeoff aircraft.

Airbus confirmed it may raise single-aisle production rates to 47 aircraft per month from 40 at some point in 2021.

Some models, like the Airbus A380, are all but done for good.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Air France was early into a radical fleet shake-up set out by Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith in November.

Boeing plans to cut its workforce by almost 19% by the end of 2021 and is beginning a consolidation process that could see up to a 30% cut in the company’s footprint, Boeing said Oct. 28 while discussing third-quarter results.

U.S. carriers have retired hundreds of jets ahead of schedule due to the global slump in commercial air travel caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But how are they utilizing those aircraft that remain, and which models have lost favor in their revamped fleets? A deep dive into Aviation Week Fleet Discovery data offers some clues.

Boeing is sticking to its earlier announced plans to slash widebody production rates by 50% by 2021 while simultaneously hoping to gradually restore 737 production to 31 per month by the start of 2022.

Ask the Editors: Airbus’ strategy remains expanding its overseas market share, so the OEM is not likely to bring work back to Europe.