Aircraft & Propulsion

Riyadh Air has formally launched Riyadh Cargo, which will utilize the belly hold capacity of a fleet intended to grow to around 120 aircraft in coming years.

Southeast Asia is expected to play a major role in establishing the broader Asia-Pacific region as the growth engine of the global airline industry.

Airbus is developing a runway overrun awareness and alerting system (ROAAS) for the A220.

Syzygy Plasmonics has signed a six-year offtake agreement with global commodities supplier and fuel distributor Trafigura.

Daher will provide industrial services on a second Airbus A321 final assembly line in Toulouse, the Paris-based company announced Jan. 21.

The shortened variant of the Comac C919, designated the C919-600, has broken cover, with photographers capturing the aircraft at Shanghai Pudong Airport (PVG).

CFM International and IATA have renewed their agreement on aftermarket services competitiveness for the next seven years.

Pratt & Whitney will deliver more engines in Latin America over the next decade than CFM International, according to the 2026 Aviation Week Commercial Fleet & MRO Forecast.

NASA is poised to begin flight tests of a representative stub wing section that is aimed at dramatically enhancing the drag-reducing benefits of natural laminar flow (NLF) in next-generation, swept wing airliners.

Engine OEMs’ profit drivers are in direct opposition to those of Boeing and Airbus—everyone is in the same boat, but they are rowing in different directions.

Southeast Asian airlines are poised for expansion to meet soaring demand projections.

Discussions are underway within Europe’s Clean Aviation program as to the scope and content of the next public-private research initiative.

Last year's total emissions relating to passenger ops began to decelerate for the first time since the pandemic; 2026's total passenger emissions could be less.

Luxair has reached a milestone in its fleet renewal process after beginning operations with its first Embraer E195-E2.

India’s Adani Group is bringing together the capabilities of Air Works and Indamer Aviation to create a larger, integrated MRO platform.

Did ATR, Comac And Embraer exceed their 2024 output in 2025? The numbers are in, and the results are mixed.

The fatal crash of an ATR 42-500 in Indonesia Jan. 17 brought the total number of ATR accidents and incidents in the Asia-Pacific region to three this year.

The sizable orders also mark a return to Boeing widebodies for Delta and a show of confidence in the airframer from Alaska.

The Qantas Group has announced plans to upgrade cabins on narrowbody aircraft operated by its subsidiary Network Aviation.

A project to build a SAF production facility in the Middle East has secured funding, with developers aiming to break ground later this year.

Embraer is buying Safran's stake in their 50-50 joint venture EZAir, which manufactures interiors for the Brazilian airframer's regional jets.

Indonesia’s search and rescue agency (Basarnas) has confirmed it has located the wreckage of an ATR 42-500 aircraft that went missing on Jan. 17.

Boeing and Airbus's 2025 O+D numbers illustrate very different stories, but neither should assume their respective performances will continue into 2026.

Public charter operator JSX has formally marked the introduction into service of its first ATR 42-600 turboprop.

Lease extensions “far outnumber” lease transitions, according to Mike Inglese, the chief executive of Aircastle.