Airbus faces challenges on several fronts in 2025 as the looming acquisition of sites from Spirit AeroSystems is proving more complex than hoped while engine deliveries remain slow.
The Airbus CEO says talks with Leonardo and Thales to fix an overcapacity problem in European satellite development and production could lead to creating a combined entity modeled on missile-maker MBDA.
By Joe Anselmo, Thierry Dubois, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
As Airbus puts hydrogen on the back burner and ATR delays its hybrid-electric turboprop, does the industry have a prayer of meeting its net-zero goals?
A year after launch of the project, Climate Impulse is reporting progress toward its goal of flying around the world nonstop on hydrogen-electric power in 2028.
Airbus’ decision to back-burner hydrogen propulsion is one more sign commercial aviation is having a hard time finding technology solutions to decarbonize.
Airbus is slowing ambitions to develop a hydrogen-fueled airliner by the mid-2030s but is expanding nearer-term plans to flight test unducted and ducted sustainable aviation fueled-engines for its next-generation single aisle.
Airbus deliveries were off to a slow start in January after the manufacturer had pushed out as many aircraft as possible to customers in December 2024.
Trade conflicts would prolong industry’s supply chain disruptions and inflation, ultimately resulting in higher prices for airlines and the flying public.
With Aviation Week’s MRO Middle East coming up in Dubai, this week’s Flight Friday looks at recent flights for Middle Eastern operators by aircraft class.
As Daher has undergone salary and price inflation since the pandemic, the company is renegotiating the prices of the aerostructures it supplies to airframers.
Even if the Middle East is no longer the only game in town for defense exports, it still has ample appetite for advanced equipment, from drones to transports.
