Aircraft & Propulsion

Rolls-Royce has produced the first new-build Trent 1000XE incorporating a second phase of durability improvements.

As the 2026 Singapore Airshow nears, Flight Friday looks at Asia-Pacific flight cycles in 2025, and how they compare to equivalent months in 2019 and 2024.

The U.S. president take aim at Canadian aircraft.

Royal Air Maroc is leasing 13 Boeing 737-8s to boost global connectivity, aiming for fleet expansion to 200 aircraft and 32 million passengers by 2037.

ATR is targeting India's regional aviation growth, highlighting turboprops' efficiency for short routes, with 420 new routes and 210 aircraft needed by 2044.

Discover Airlines is investing in its largest cabin upgrade, standardizing its A330 fleet and enhancing passenger comfort with retrofits by 2028.

Air India bolstered its narrowbody order backlog with commitments for 30 Boeing 737 MAXs and 15 Airbus A321XLRs, continuing its fleet transformation.

Wizz Air is in talks to transfer up to five Airbus A321XLRs to another operator as financial losses narrow.

Air Canada is expanding its long-haul network with the return of nonstop service to Ecuador and the launch of year-round flights to Manchester and Copenhagen.

Oman's Civil Aviation Authority unveiled its National Aviation Strategy 2040, including plans for airport developments to handle more than 40 million passengers

Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. announced plans to assemble its Superjet 100 in India as part of plans to promote exports to that country.

The UAE is eyeing major SAF export opportunities to other markets such as the European Union, which is struggling to scale up its own SAF production.

Aviation Week editors share the highlights of Boeing's latest financials, touching on the manufacturer's positive turnaround, challenges ahead and program updates.

In a continued expansion of its widebody orderbook, Delta Air Lines has agreed to purchase 16 Airbus A330-900s and 15 A350-900s.

Boeing is convincing observers and stakeholders it has turned the corner on its recovery, despite having a financially noisy fourth quarter of 2025

Raytheon’s production output increased 20% on several critical programs last year; the company expects to significantly boost output again in 2026.

Boeing is reviewing a potential durability issue on the GE Aerospace GE9X engine powering the 777X.

Insufficient crew coordination in an Air Atlanta Icelandic 747-467F cockpit led to a stall warning at takeoff and a tail strike in 2023, investigators say.

Why are high-profile aerospace and defense companies and investors shelling out billions of dollars for humble aircraft parts makers? Commercial aerospace parts

IATA is forecasting that airlines across the Asia-Pacific region will be profitable this year, with China and India leading regional expansion.

U.S. airframer Boeing has no commercial aircraft represented in either the static or flying displays, despite the expectation of a larger presence.

Embraer and Adani Defense and Aerospace have announced their intention to build a final assembly line in India, and they will also collaborate on advancing India’s regional aircraft sector.

With Southeast Asia offering sustained traffic growth and new airport capacity, Cathay Pacific sees the region as a key opportunity for network expansion.

Airbus’ new head of the commercial aircraft business, Lars Wagner, is aiming at significantly higher widebody production rates.

Carbon Analysis assesses how some major U.S. low-cost carriers have performed, efficiency-wise, in 2025, namely JetBlue, Frontier, Allegiant and Southwest.