Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Apr 11, 2016
Etihad Airways recorded 99.8% reliability in its first year of operating the Airbus A380-800, the best performance level of any airline to have introduced the aircraft, the carrier said April 11 after receiving the Airbus Operational Reliability Performance award.
Apr 05, 2016
Airbus has come up with an A380 configuration that will enable airlines to add up to 14 more seats, increasing capacity to 543 passengers in a standard four-class layout.
Mar 09, 2016
Airbus Group has completed the 100% acquisition of Navtech, a Canadian company specializing in flight operations tools such as electronic flight bags.
Mar 04, 2016
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft deliveries for 2016 year-to-date, sorted by most-recent delivery date.
Feb 25, 2016
Air New Zealand plans to 3D print components for its Business Premier cabins, in a bid to leverage new technology to help reduce costs.
Feb 09, 2015
A selection of photos from ATW's Aviation Editor Kurt Hofmann aboard the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8I aircraft.
Feb 06, 2015
Flydubai took delivery of its 44th Boeing 737-800 of an order for 50 placed at the Farnborough Airshow in 2008. The remaining 737s from the order will arrive at the airline this year. The average age of the flydubai fleet is 3.1 years. Flydubai also has on order 75 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 11 more Boeing 737-800s, placed at the Dubai Airshow 2013.
Feb 03, 2015
ICAO is proposing that airlines begin taking responsibility for knowing the whereabouts of their aircraft in oceanic areas by late 2016.
Feb 03, 2015
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is joining the growing number of airlines that are introducing a premium economy class, with the product to be rolled out across a large part of its fleet over the next few years.
Feb 03, 2015
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana has introduced an economy sleeper class on Boeing 757 services from Astana to London and Frankfurt from Feb. 3; Paris will be added March 29.
Jan 16, 2015
Germany-based airberlin will install 23,000 new seats in its 120 narrowbody aircraft.
Jan 07, 2015
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said the carrier is trialing the use of constant data uploads from flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, aka black boxes, of its aircraft.