FlightFriday

As the 2025 Dubai Airshow ends, this week’s Flight Friday examines flights of lower-cost carriers in the region as compared to the equivalent month in 2019.

With the aviation community converging for the Dubai Airshow, this week’s Flight Friday looks at the post-pandemic recovery of the Middle East’s major carriers.

Following the tragic MD-11F accident at Louisville, Kentucky, Flight Friday looks at flight cycles of the last tri-jet aircraft built for commercial service.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at the top five Comac ARJ21/C909 operators, with Vietjet added.

To coincide with the release of Aviation Week’s 2026 Fleet & MRO Forecast, this week's Flight Friday is rather a Forecast Friday with a focus on Europe.

Flight Friday looks at how European flights (minus Russian operators) are performing compared to equivalent month 2019, when broken down by aircraft class.

Recent news about operators Play and Braathens International ceasing operations prompts this week's Flightriday examination of flight hours for those operators.

Flight Friday examines how the current Embraer E195-E2 fleet performs compared to its legacy E195 predecessor and the Airbus A220.

With less than two months before Dubai Airshow 2025 opens, this week's Flight Friday examines the top 10 Gulf carriers from a flight-hours perspective.

As Aviation Week’s MRO Asia-Pacific event in Singapore nears, Flight Friday looks at how operators in the region have finally returned to 2019 levels.

The workhorse of the European commercial fleet, the CFM56, alone powers more than 40% of the European fleet’s flights, even before the Leap is accounted for.

This week's Flight Friday examines Air Europa, which Turkish Airlines plans to invest €300M in for 27%, as the carrier shifts to an all-Boeing 737/787 fleet.

With the imminent shift in the narrowbody sector, as the Boeing 737 is overtaken by the Airbus A320 family, Flight Friday showcases these industry workhorses.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at cargo utilization since 2019, with the top four aircraft types all manufactured by Boeing.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at a platform that was severely impacted by the COVID pandemic, the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at the impact of PW1000G geared turbofan (GTF) engine issues on Airbus A320neo family, A220, and Embraer E2 family aircraft.

With flight data through to the end of June 2025 available, this week’s Flight Friday looks at utilization for the first half of each year from 2019.

This week's Flight Friday looks at utilization in Europe of Embraer’s E170/E175s, E190/E195s and its E2s, given the Brazilian OEM's successful Paris Air Show.

Flight Friday looks at how the top four French passenger operators by number of flights (cycles) have been operating since the previous Paris Air Show in 2023.

This week's Flight Friday examines how European operators' flight cycles compare with the equivalent month in 2019, when split by aircraft class.

With the IATA AGM in India and Aviation Week’s Engine Leasing, Trading & Finance events imminent, Flight Friday looks at Indian narrowbody engine flight hours.

Six months prior to the Dubai Airshow, Flight Friday looks at how the top 10 Middle East operators by passenger flights have been flying over the last 12 months.

Flight Friday looks at how Eastern Europe's flight cycles, indexed to the equivalent month in 2019, excluding Russia, are faring compared to 2019.

Three of China’s largest airlines announced their quarter one (Q1) 2025 results. #FlightFriday compares Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines' domestic flights versus international.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at narrowbody engine utilization by Asia-Pacific operators (which in this analysis excludes China and India operators).