Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Dron
Bahrain-based freight specialist Texel Air is rapidly expanding its fleet, as it rides the wave of surging e-commerce and other freight flows.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Against the backdrop of the COP29 conference taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, a group of aviation and climate scientists is urging faster action on contrails.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
MHIRJ plans to update CRJ family flight manuals with procedures to help mitigate the risk of a problem the aircraft have conducting certain ILS approaches.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Alan Dron
Etihad Cargo is considering exercising options for more Airbus A350F freighters, as cargo volumes—notably from China—continue to ramp up.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
State-owned Congo Airways has resumed operations with a wet-leased KlasJet Boeing 737-800, after all its aircraft were grounded due to maintenance issues.
Airlines & Lessors

By Thierry Dubois
ATR has started offering Audioback, a system to help passengers wearing hearing aids, as a retrofit option at individual seat level.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Chen Chuanren
The ACC roadmap calls for airlines to trigger demand by including circular material requirements in requests for proposals and material purchase orders.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
The company touts its two-seat demonstrator’s work to validate concepts that are key to planned larger variant.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Troubled Tier 1 aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems is selling its Fiber Materials (FMI) business to Tex-Tech Industries for $165 million in cash.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
A GE-led project with Boeing, NASA and the Oak Ridge laboratory is turning to supercomputers to understand the challenges of integrating a future open fan engine.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
The creation of so-called green flight paths could have a snowball effect on the promotion, appropriation and production of SAF, a research paper suggests.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Ethiopian Airlines is ready to place an order for a “double-digit” number of Embraer E2s or Airbus A220s, but not until the types’ engine issues are resolved.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno, Joe Anselmo
Elliott says “the time has come to embrace simplification.”
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
New Zealand spaceplane developer Dawn Aerospace has flown its Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered aircraft supersonically for the first time.
Emerging Technologies

By William Moore
This week, the Carbon Analysis looks at the relationship between total CO2 emissions and utilization.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Mark Pilling
Uganda Airlines is seeking to lease two A320neos next year as long OEM lead times mean the aircraft it wants to order will not come until the end of the decade.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Embraer and PTDI are exploring an industrial partnership that could pave the way for the introduction of E-Jets in the Indonesian market.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
NASA and GE Aerospace will evaluate aircraft wake scanning technology during flight tests to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Kough
Shortages are still the overall driving trend this year, as it was last year, against a backdrop of strong consumer demand for commercial aviation services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By David Casey
Icelandair plans to offer Boeing 737-8 service to Istanbul from next September.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Logistics and small package specialist DHL Aviation plans to increase its footprint at Bahrain International Airport.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
MHI RJ Aviation Group (MHIRJ) and Maeve Aerospace are teaming up for the development of Maeve’s planned M80 80-seat hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
20 years ago, NASA saw incremental aircraft improvement would no longer mitigate the environmental impact of projected growth; revolutionary change was needed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
FACC has reported healthy nine-month results but warns that an above-average increase in Central European labor costs is weighing on the supplier.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Kurt Hofmann
Elbe Flugzeug Werke (EFW) has signed agreement with the Chinese HNA Aviation Group to convert Airbus A330 passenger aircraft into freighters starting next year.
Aircraft & Propulsion