Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 25, 2016
Beijing-based Air China has taken delivery of its first of 15 Boeing 787-9s, becoming the first airline in China to introduce the type into service.
May 25, 2016
Dublin-based regional CityJet has taken delivery of its first 98-seat Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft, becoming the first European SSJ100 customer.
May 25, 2016
Travel technology provider SITA is exploring the use of blockchain technology as a platform for generating secure single travel “tokens” that could potentially streamline a passenger’s progress through all airport processes involving the scanning of personal documentation.
May 24, 2016
Will airliners always look the way they do today? NASA thinks not, and the US research agency has bold plans to return to the heydays of X-planes.
May 24, 2016
The next wave of airline IT changes may include new jargon: Speech recognition to turn voice into text, natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
Sep 11, 2020
Readers write about GPS mismanagement, AW&ST as invaluable information source and Boeing 737 handling trials.
Sep 10, 2020
Americans are expected to fall in love with their cars again in the wake of COVID-19.
Sep 10, 2020
Air New Zealand plans to ground its Boeing 777-300ERs until at least September 2021, extending its estimate of how long these aircraft will be out of service.
Sep 10, 2020
The aerospace arm of ST Engineering is ramping up its Airbus A321 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) capabilities at its Guangzhou, China, and San Antonio, Texas, facilities as the MRO reacts to the demand for air cargo capacity resulting from the COVID-19 crisis.
Sep 09, 2020
Ask the Editors: Mitsubishi’s inexperience with developing commercial aircraft has led to a series of delays in its regional jet program.
Sep 09, 2020
Airbus has completed three test flights using two of its own Airbus A350s with the autopilot engaged in its Fello’fly wake vortex-riding project.
Sep 09, 2020
The French government has reiterated its desire to see a hydrogen-fueled Airbus flying in service by 2035, firmly reacting to those claiming the move is too risky.
Sep 09, 2020
A lack of “clear information” from Boeing on the return of the 737 MAX is hampering Ethiopian Airlines’ ability to make decisions on its future narrowbody fleet as it studies the Airbus A220, according to the flag-carrier’s CEO Tewolde Gebremariam.