Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Single-aisle production is planned to rise by the end of the year as Airbus awaits the inflection point toward market recovery.

Around a decade after preparing to divest its aerostructures businesses, Airbus is now reversing course and wants to keep component manufacturing inside the group for the long term.

SOCOM plans Armed Overwatch buy; GBSD moves past initial review; GE engine to power Italian helo and Denmark bolsters Arctic defenses.

In the post-pandemic era, supply chains will become stronger and probably – but not always – shorter.

The U.S. and Mexico are joined at the hip but remain worlds apart when it comes to aerospace manufacturing attractiveness.

The potential demand forecast for tens of thousands of delivery drones and air taxis means there is a growing need for propellers and rotors with better performance, lower noise and easier producibility.

Slashed engineering spending, market coverage gaps and abandoned product developments are endangering Boeing Commercial Aircraft.

Agency’s focus is primarily on pilot human-factors issues.

Initial studies on a UK/French Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon have been completed, and an assessment phase is due to follow.

The big lessors are in much better financial shape than their customers, and their market share and influence will only rise as they provide customers financial help.

Leveraging NMA lessons, Boeing signals industry on firmer development plans for new competitor to the A321XLR.

What leaders should do when we again are free to move about.

Will Biden’s policy on aerospace business with China differ from Trump’s? The answers may be surprising politically but not economically.

Flagship Boeing widebody is suffering from production-quality issues forcing time-consuming rework on airplanes most do not need.

Greece is investing in defense again and new combat aircraft top the list of priorities.

Listen in as PwC experts discuss how understanding and leveraging data can help aerospace companies win.

Consensus is that spending will be flat in the first term of the Biden administration, but analysts are not clear on what this means.

Olivier Andries has to helm the super-Tier 1 manufacturer as it navigates a still-turbulent environment while longer term Safran will have to offer new concepts to decarbonize commercial aviation.

Leading Tier 1 supplier Spirit AeroSystems and the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) have inaugurated a new kind of federally backed, discounted-rate lending for aerospace suppliers—beginning with a $40 million transaction based on receivables from Spirit’s lower-tier providers.

Investors are still looking for signs of reassurances that Boeing is still protecting its ability to ultimately bounce back with new products later this decade.

Fiat Chrysler and General Motors are the latest automakers to turn their attention to air mobility.

Portugal’s growing aerospace sector wants to put the pandemic behind it and build the country’s first indigenous aircraft.

As government support materializes, France's supply chain strives to avoid layoffs.

Sustainable alternative jet fuels are a better bet to meet aviation’s low-carbon challenge.

A new type of passenger aircraft looks to shatter the placidness with sonic and business booms alike.