Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jan 11, 2017
Airbus and Boeing commercial aircraft gross orders for 2016, sorted by most-recent date of order placement with manufacturer.
Jan 11, 2017
Iran Air has taken delivery of its first new aircraft, an A321, from a historic 100-aircraft Airbus order.
Jan 11, 2017
Airbus is ramping up production and is expecting to deliver more than 700 aircraft in 2017, as it starts to overcome supply chain and program maturity issues.
Jan 11, 2017
United Airlines has decided to retire its remaining 20 Boeing 747-400s by the end of 2017, moving up the fleet’s retirement by a year.
Jan 11, 2017
[REVISED] Airbus and Aeroflot Airline have reached a mutual agreement to cancel an order for eight Airbus A350-800s, Airbus revealed in a presentation at an annual press briefing Jan. 11.
May 07, 2021
In Western aerospace manufacturing, it is becoming increasingly clear through first-quarter financial reports that a recovery is still a midterm prospect, and OEMs and suppliers face numerous overhangs.
May 07, 2021
This webinar took place May 7, 2021. With COVID-19 having dealt a huge blow to regional airlines, it is unclear how soon their appetites for new…
May 06, 2021
The rapid growth in e-commerce and express package transport has driven Boeing to put in place additional capacity to modify 737-800s to the Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) configuration.
May 06, 2021
Startup Wright Electric has begun testing the megawatt-scale power inverter that is a key building block in development of the electric propulsion system for its planned single-aisle airliner.
May 06, 2021
What now in the post-pandemic world? During several recent trade shows, webinars and Aviation Week interviews, advisors and analysts have shed light on where they think industry giants are going next and why.
May 05, 2021
Spirit AeroSystems disappointed Wall Street on May 5 with a reported loss and lower revenues than expected, as well as a sobering cashflow forecast for the whole year.
May 05, 2021
Swiss startup Dufour Aerospace has secured additional funding to take its aEro3 hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff and-landing aircraft into pre-production and certification. The funding round was led by Swiss early-stage investor Session.vc.
May 05, 2021
Bernard Ziegler, the legendary former Airbus chief pilot and senior vice president-engineering, died May 5. He was 88.