Boeing 777

By Alan Dron
Qatar Airways Cargo is to be the launch customer for the Mammoth Freighters 777-200LRMF, following the new conversion’s first flight.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Thai Airways has moved to gain Boeing 777-300ER passenger-to-freighter conversion capability with Kansas Modification Center.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
All Nippon Airways has expanded the AeroShark riblet film program from its Boeing 777F freighter fleet to the passenger 777-300ER.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
With Aero-Engines Asia-Pacific coming up April 23-24, this week's Flight Friday looks at widebody engine utilization by Asia-Pacific operators.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
The group is planning substantial capacity growth as it moves beyond its rebuilding period.
Airlines & Lessors

By James Pozzi
At Aviation Week’s MRO Middle East 2025, MROs in the region discussed long-term growth ambitions and investing in capacity to ramp up to meet demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Lufthansa Cargo sees a cargo capacity crunch ahead, driven by strong Asian demand and aircraft supply issues, with its first Boeing 777-8F now arriving in 2028.
Airlines & Lessors

By Alan Dron
Airlines are rethinking how to keep passengers comfortable and entertained.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Adrian Schofield
The Australian airlines are looking to reactivate or wet-lease widebodies, but they will still be behind pre-pandemic numbers.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
A legendary Asian airline company is back in the game.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Guy Norris
Air cargo operators are trying to make sense of the bigger picture for tariffs.
Airlines & Lessors

By Sean Broderick
The aircraft-maker’s much-anticipated production rate increases on its key programs remain tied to quality improvement targets that appear to be in sight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By William Moore, Daniel Williams
This week’s Flight Friday looks at the utilization, in flight cycles, of three Boeing cargo aircraft types over the previous two years.
Air Transport

By Adrian Schofield
Australia’s competition watchdog has granted draft approval for the proposed partnership between Qatar Airways and Virgin Australia, including wet-lease plans.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Christian Albertson
The region’s commercial freighter MRO demand is predicted to grow faster than many other global regions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Boeing delivered 45 aircraft in January—the most single-month total since December 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
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.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker
Cathay Pacific CEO Ronald Lam says the Airbus A350, Boeing 777-9 and 787 are all being considered for the carrier's next batch of long-haul widebodies.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
Qatar Airways is using proactive maintenance planning to deal with supply chain, workforce and aircraft delivery challenges.
Supply Chain

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
The cargo conversion specialists are deploying a variety of strategies to boost Boeing 777 production capacity.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
With Boeing delivering the final 777-300ER at the end of 2024, this week’s Flight Friday looks back at how 777 cycles have been since the beginning of 2019.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Keith Mwanalushi
As more airlines opt to densify cabins, MRO providers are adapting maintenance programs to keep up.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Guy Norris
The 777-200ER was acquired in 2022 to replace a long-serving DC-8-72, which was retired in May after nearly 40 years with NASA.
Space Exploration

By Victoria Moores
Air India is working to bring line and base maintenance in-house as it faces significant fleet growth and $400 million cabin refit program.
MRO

By Adrian Schofield
Taiwan flag carrier China Airlines expects to receive more widebody and narrowbody aircraft next year to continue the growth of its international operations.
Aircraft & Propulsion