Aircraft & Propulsion

Renewed focus on narrowbody aircraft and the U.S. pilot shortage challenge RJ operations.

Boeing delivered 28 737 MAXs in April, a pace that remains below its stated long-term target of clearing out an inventory of completed aircraft that stood at 320 at the end of March.

The board of EVA Air has approved the purchase of another Boeing 777F for delivery in late 2023.

The MRO market for legacy regional airliners is expected to see stability and modest growth.

Embraer is starting an E-Jet conversion program in response to the booming e-commerce market and the movement by logistics providers to decentralization warehouses.

Canadian aerostructures and spacecraft sub-tier provider Magellan Aerospace saw almost 7% greater revenue during the first quarter of 2022 over the year-before period.

Textron Aviation has delivered the first Cessna 408 SkyCourier to long-time customer, FedEx Express, following the turboprop’s certification in March.

As ever more airline markets are seeing increasing use of crossover narrowbody jets, the airlines operating such aircraft from the Embraer E-Jets E2

Boeing’s journey has been painful for years, but the last few days have brought further developments that make its recovery challenge even harder.

For the first time in more than 14 years, the “record-high spike” in Jet-A fuel prices in the U.S. has surpassed that of 100L, according to a report by GlobalAir.com.

Modified A350-1000s will allow Qantas to begin nonstop flights from Sydney to London and New York starting in late 2025.

First-quarter 2022 financial reports from Airbus and Boeing were snapshots of the different fates the two leading airframers face. Listen in as Aviation Week editors Jens Flottau, Guy Norris and Michael Bruno discuss the increasingly diverging paths within the duopoly.

Boeing remains a going concern, but it cannot shake the specter of an existential crisis. A resolution may be far from clear.

Thales PureFlyt next-generation flight management system (FMS) has been selected by Airbus for its commercial airliner series representing a key breakthrough for the European avionics maker.

Boeing will move its corporate headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, home of the Pentagon and across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., according to news reports.

UPS’s drone airline subsidiary UPS Flight Forward has embarked on a strategy of deploying autonomous and remotely operated aircraft across a range of use cases from medical delivery drones to large feeder aircraft.

Lufthansa is slowly warming up to the idea of potentially reactivating its Airbus A380 fleet, should strong demand growth be sustained over the next few years.

Under Russian ownership in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Let L-410 manufacturer was crippled by the effect of sanctions.

E-commerce growth is encouraging more startups to enter the market for autonomous middle-mile logistics aircraft.

While the French aerospace industry has long experienced difficulties in hiring to meet its needs in production, the problem has become more acute in the tail end of the COVID-19 crisis.

BAE Systems has lifted the veil on a new lightweight head-up display (HUD) it is targeting at the business jet and single-aisle airliner market.

Spirit AeroSystems, the leading supplier of aircraft subsystems to Boeing, this week reached production of 31 737 MAX shipsets a month and expects to stay there

Airbus is going ahead with the long-debated further increase in its single-aisle output over the next three years and is delaying entry-into-service of the A321XLR by a few months.

Swiss light aircraft developer Junkers Aircraft is proposing reviving development of the Ju-52 trimotor as a potential low-cost transport aircraft.

Airlines see regulatory writing on the wall and start making SAF commitments.