We will be performing site maintenance behind the scenes on Sunday, December 14th starting at 5:00am EST and anticipate this update will take approximately 6 hours. You may experience intermittent issues during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

Boeing

By Sean Broderick
FAA proposals mandating Boeing 737NG nacelle changes have some operators concerned about the agency’s plan to mitigate the risk of maintenance errors.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By James Pozzi
How Saudi Arabia’s aviation ambitions are seeping into MRO.
Workforce & Training

Dan Dumbacher
Boeing’s leadership team must continue to ask the hard questions and look further to honestly assess company culture that could contribute to future problems.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick, Michael Bruno
New, more hands-on production surveillance is likely to emerge from Boeing’s supply chain and quality missteps.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Aviation Week ranks the 15 leading companies in the nascent eVTOL market.
Advanced Air Mobility

Readers write about U.S. Navy E-2 Hawkeyes, maintaining airline pilots’ flying skills, and what should be done to solve problems at Boeing.
Aviation Week & Space Technology

By Daniel Williams
This week's #FlightFriday looks at the recovery of widebody utilization and what that means for the engine OEMs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
U.S. airlines completed the checks in “early January” and found “no missing or loose rudder bolts,” the agency added in a statement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Major aerostructures supplier Daher is prioritizing Airbus A320 component deliveries to help mitigate supply chain issues that have caused production delays.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Adrian Schofield
Akasa is looking to enter agreements for about $300 million in structured debt—a change of direction from its previous plans to issue substantial new equity.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Ihssane Mounir, Boeing senior VP for global supply chain and fabrication, told a key supplier conference that suppliers and the OEM owe each other transparency.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Christian Albertson
Aviation Week projects that a significant aircraft fleet increase in 2024-33 will drive healthy growth in Latin America’s MRO market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Investigators are still working to piece together what happened to the Boeing 737-9 in the weeks leading up to its delivery to Alaska.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Doug Ackerman, vice president for supplier quality at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, updated a key supplier conference on the nature of its supply chain problems.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
With USAF and NATO orders on the books, Boeing and Northrop Grumman seek additional customers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Investigators determined the door plug was not opened between the airplane’s Oct. 31, 2023, delivery to Alaska Airlines and the accident flight.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker heads to Capitol Hill Feb. 6 as the lone listed witness in what figures to be a heavy lift of a hearing.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Sean Broderick
A new issue on some Boeing 737 fuselages will slow production and require re-work on about 50 airplanes, Boeing said.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
The service, blocked from starting new acquisition programs, used a long-standing autonomy demonstration effort to begin CCA work.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jens Flottau
For the leasing and air finance industry, the Boeing crisis seems to have sunk in to a degree as part of normal life in aerospace and for its customers.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
The number of 737 MAXs would include including newly built and those pulled out of inventory.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The target of generating $10 billion in free cashflow per year by 2026 may slip as the company pays to fix its production processes and stabilize manufacturing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Boeing is withdrawing its request for a time-limited exemption covering a de-icing system that would have allowed the 737-7 to be certified with a known noncompliance.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Anthony L. Velocci Jr.
Holding 70% of the company’s outstanding shares, they could declare a crisis of confidence, challenge the status quo and demand a change in top management.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Lilium has signed an agreement with parts and repairs provider AJW Group to provide global spares distribution for the Lilium Jet eVTOL.
Advanced Air Mobility