Aircraft & Propulsion

John Evans, founder and CEO of lessor Azorra, shares his perspectives on airline market trends and lessor consolidation, hinting at upcoming M&A opportunities.

June-August deliveries show Airbus’s pace is 2% higher than 2023 while Boeing’s pace has slipped 6% year-over-year.

Beyond Aero, a company designing a fuel cell-powered business jet, has revealed the outlines of larger aircraft that would use a similar propulsion system.

The import-free variant of Russia’s MC-21 narrowbody airliner cannot operate at its designed range after the installation of heavier locally made components.

Zurich-based Embraer E2 operator Helvetic Airways sees itself better positioned compared to wet-lease operators with older generation aircraft.

The oil and refining industry should prepare for when China imposes policies on sustainable aviation and signs up for CORSIA, Shell Aviation's president says.

Asset manager Brookfield plans to invest up to $1.1 billion in Infinium to boost the output of the company's power-to-liquid e-fuel production plant in Texas.

Airbus UAM CEO Balkiz Sarihan tells Aviation Week the CityAirbus NextGen full-scale eVTOL prototype is on track to make its first flight before year-end.

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Allegiant Air has become the first U.S. operator to take delivery of the Boeing 737-8-200 MAX variant, one of 26 it has on order.

Boeing handed over 32 737 MAXs and four 787s in August, marking three straight months with 30-plus deliveries.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby believes Boeing has “turned the corner,” impressed with the moves new chief executive Kelly Ortberg has made thus far.

Lufthansa Technik confirms it is developing a drag-reducing riblet film retrofit plan for the Airbus A330.

A Delta Air Lines A350 and CRJ-900 collided on a taxiway at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Sept. 10; the FAA and NTSB are investigating.

The Bavarian state government has cleared the way for a €50 million ($55 million) loan guarantee to support advanced air mobility startup Lilium.

Boeing’s latest commitment to change its corporate culture remains in its early days, Administrator Mike Whitaker said.

Air China’s first Comac C919 will debut on two routes: Beijing Capital-Shanghai Hongqiao and Beijing Capital-Hangzhou.

Dewar was most recently senior vice president and general manager of the Airbus A220 program.

GE Aerospace will launch several new AI- and robotics-powered MRO technologies at its soon-to-open Services Technology Acceleration Center.

GE Aerospace unit Aerospace Carbon Solutions has acquired Satavia, a UK-based company specializing in preventing the formation of contrails.

Machinists will vote Sept. 12, and already there is cause for concern.

This week’s Carbon Analysis looks at some global low-cost carriers, namely Frontier Airlines, Ryanair, Scoot and Wizz Air.

Egyptian LCC Air Cairo is aiming is to greatly increase its fleet, taking it to 72 aircraft by 2030.

El Al has become an air transport lifeline since war broke out in Gaza.

Boeing and the machinists union have reached a tentative, four-year agreement that would keep new commercial airplane production in the Pacific Northwest, provide significant pay and benefits boosts, and address gaps on other key issues that have plagued the company.