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Boeing still is negotiating with the Trump administration over receiving U.S. bailout funds, but company leaders believe they can maintain investor-grade ratings and see a sustainable financial path to when its commercial aircraft business returns to growth in 3-5 years.

Ask the Editors: Regional jets just might be a dark horse in the post COVID-19 landscape.

Airbus will not decide on further changes to its production rates before June and any potential adaptations will be “on a smaller scale” than previous cuts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said April 29.

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For all those who believe that things come in threes, there now is the third failed mergers and acquisition (M&A) deal attributable to COVID-19 in April alone.

Ask the Editors: Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker answers.

Many questions and variables remain, but it means market chaos for small airliners.

A review finds a conflict between emergency procedures and maintenance instructions.

Production of the 787 at Boeing’s North Charleston, South Carolina facility is set to resume in early May following the company’s decision to reopen

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury gave a dramatic warning to employees that heralds potentially deeper production cuts than initially planned.

Norwegian Air Shuttle said it expects to remain grounded until April 2021 as it set out a debt-for-equity conversion plan to avoid running out of cash by mid-May.

MOSCOW—Irkut Corporation has resumed the flight trials of its new MC-21 narrowbody aircraft in Zhukovsky, near Moscow. The flights were suspended on

U.S. Air Force eVTOL event; EHang plans E-port; Zipline fights COVID-19; Pipistrel measures DEP noise; Onera tests airship.

Embraer and Boeing are entering into a bitter public fight over who is responsible for the end of the proposed commercial aircraft joint venture, Boeing Brasil Commercial.

Alitalia will relaunch in June with a reduced fleet of around 90 aircraft, Italy’s economic development minister Stefano Patuanelli told a parliamentary hearing April 23.

With no end to the COVID-19 crisis in sight, Singapore Airlines (SIA) is flying four of its Airbus A380 and two of LCC subsidiary Scoot’s A320ceo to the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage (APAS) facility in Alice Springs, Australia for long-term parking.

Boeing has tapped Mark Jenks to lead a new Airplane Programs organization that the company expects to ensure both consistency and efficiency throughout its core commercial aircraft production efforts—one of several changes announced by the company’s leadership aimed at aligning similar businesses.

Gurit, a Swiss-based provider of prepreg composite materials for aerospace, announced April 23 that its longtime CEO Rudolf Hadorn will step down at the end of March 2021 but could eventually become chairman of the board of directors.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has said it will suspend its production for the Boeing 787 program for up to 10 days in May.

After missing a March 6 deadline to submit its proposal for an MRO joint venture with Thai Airways at U-Tapao Airport, Airbus has also failed to meet the new deadline of April 20.

Ask the Editors: Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno answers.

High-speed rail long has been the boogeyman to global airliner growth. The novel coronavirus could make it a real competitor.

Airlines are looking ahead to how the coronavirus crisis will affect efforts to reduce environmental impact.

Airbus has begun using an “e-Delivery” remote process for aircraft handovers as a way to ensure health and safety amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rarely have production-rate changes been so highly anticipated as the expected news from Boeing.