Emerging Technologies

Etihad Airways and talabat, the region's food delivery and q-commerce platform, have signed a region-wide MoU. The agreement will see the two organisations collaborate on a range of initiatives that will benefit both Etihad Airways and talabat customers and employees.
Emerging Technologies

Inmarsat has launched its innovative new OneFi customer experience platform for airlines.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
FAA’s Center for Emerging Concepts and Innovation addresses novel technologies in eVTOL, safety enhancements, electric propulsion, advanced flight controls and flight deck displays as well as advanced automation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The oil and gas company has set itself a target of producing 2 million metric tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year by 2025—a significant near-term scale-up in supply since Shell is not producing SAF at present.
Emerging Technologies

By Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois
With the regional aircraft market split between Embraer and ATR, U.S. airlines will have to buy in for Embraer to break into turboprops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Sweden-based SCA, Europe’s largest private forest owner, and Nordic energy company St1 have established a joint venture to produce and sell liquid biofuels, including sustainable aviation fuel.
Emerging Technologies

By Carole Rickard Hedden
KVS Technologies has entered into agreement with Air Methods’ Spright, for one-stop linear inspection services for utility companies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris
As manufacturers strive to reduce the fuel burn and emissions of their next generation of commercial airliners, longer wings are near the top of the list.
Sustainability

Bahrain’s Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications has renewed its long-standing partnership with leading aerospace event organiser Farnborough International to organise the 2022 and 2024 editions of the Bahrain International Airshow (BIAS).
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Electric Accel takes off; Moog flies SureFly; Tulips cleans airports; Terrafugia launches UAV; and Hamburg’s drone sandbox.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The credit is intended to stimulate production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by reducing the price premium over conventional jet fuel.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Canada’s SAF+ Consortium has produced the first few liters of synthetic kerosene at its pilot plant in Montreal.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Universe of customers for eVTOL aircraft expands, with Europcar Brazil plans to order 50 eGyros from startup Skyworks Aeronautics.
Advanced Air Mobility

Recaro Aircraft Seating (Recaro) is to equip Qatar Airways with its brand-new CL3810 economy class seat. Starting at the end of 2022, twenty shipsets of the CL3810 will be installed on the new A321neo fleet.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Thierry Dubois
Cabin interiors specialists are looking beyond COVID-19 to the interiors trends that will shape the coming years of recovery.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Graham Warwick
South Korean automaker Hyundai and UK startup Urban-Air Port plan to develop 65 urban vertiports at key locations worldwide.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Lori Ranson, Ben Goldstein
The 50-seat regional jet was a game changer in the early part of the current century. But the good times couldn’t last for small RJs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Testing of U-space services designed to enable unmanned and manned aircraft to share low-altitude airspace have begun in Hamburg.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
Missile tests on the Korean Peninsula; MQ-25’s third customer; Vertex’s Raytheon training pickup; and Capella provides a SAR sampler.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Kenya Airways has entered a unilateral intermodal interline agreement with one of the fastest growing multimodal mobility platforms in Europe Vipper.com.
Emerging Technologies

Lifetime aerospace enthusiast, Abdoulaziz Kountché, runs Drone Africa Service, providing vital missions for NGOs and also for Niger’s companies and authorities, writes Vincent Chappard.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce has completed the first flight of its electric-powered Spirit of Innovation aircraft, also known as Accel.
Emerging Technologies

Etihad Airways has upgraded its Verified to Fly service to offer a more streamlined and personalised service through its website.
Emerging Technologies

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA), Lufthansa Consulting and Kenya Airways staged a workshop on 14th September 2021 on African airlines consolidation to discuss the reasons for few partnerships and limited airline consolidation, the challenges and benefits of consolidation and measures for action by industry stakeholders to address the situation.
Air Transport

By William Garvey
It took more than a decade, but the General Aviation Modifications Inc. team found a solution.
Safety, Ops & Regulation