Aircraft & Propulsion

China Eastern Airlines signed major deals with CFM International and Honeywell on the Nov. 5 opening day of the China International Import Expo, both relating to its future Airbus A320neos.

Listen as Aviation Week editors Joseph Anselmo, Sean Broderick, and Jens Flottau discuss Aviation Week's analysis of proprietary aircraft operational data showing the precipitous fall in utilization for many aircraft workhorses.

Thai Airways has put a total of 34 aircraft up for sale, including all of its Boeing 747-400, 777-200 and 777-300, as the flag-carrier turns to more fuel-efficient aircraft for the handful of international flights it now operates.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.