The Top 10 Most Read Air Transport Content In 2020

January 04, 2021

10. Cabin Interiors: Flying In The COVID-19 Era

Aircraft cabin manufacturers continue to innovate to develop new cabin designs, and many have responded to what aircraft interiors could look like in the post-COVID-19 environment—particularly in the economy cabin that would enable social distancing between passengers.

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9. Boeing Terminates Embraer Deal, Bitter Fight Begins

Embraer and Boeing are entering into a bitter public fight over who is responsible for the end of the proposed commercial aircraft joint venture, Boeing Brasil Commercial.

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Widebody Engine Deliveries and Maintenance

In the Widebody segment, Rolls-Royce's Trent XWB powering the Airbus A350 will lead the way in deliveries with 1,750. The GENX-1 (pictured) will see 1,584 deliveries and will generate $32.6 billion in MRO spend over 10 years.

7. Daily Memo: The MAX Returns To A Changed World

When the next Boeing 737 MAX rolls off the assembly line sometime later this year, it will roll into a very different world than when production was paused in mid-January. 

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6. Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 Crashes Near Tehran

A Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 crashed close to Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, the airline confirmed, with the loss of all passengers and crew on board.

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5. Aerospace Analysts See Growing 737 MAX Costs For Boeing

Boeing stakeholders may find out more information about the costs of the 737 MAX fiasco during the company’s Jan. 29 report on 2019 financial results. While Boeing previously identified $5.6 billion in pretax customer compensation for aircraft operators and added $3.6 billion to the 737’s program accounting block-cost, financial analysts, consultants and others see those figures as just a beginning.

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4. New 787 Problems Spotlight Boeing’s Quality Issues

Production mistakes on scores of Boeing 787s will intensify scrutiny of the manufacturer’s quality-control capability and could place it in violation of a 2015 agreement with the FAA triggered by other manufacturing problems, including some on the 787 program.

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3. ‘Survival Of Airbus' At Risk, Faury Warns

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury gave a dramatic warning to employees that heralds potentially deeper production cuts than initially planned.

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2. Boeing Fought Lion Air On Proposed MAX Simulator Training Requirement

Boeing’s efforts to keep 737 Next Generation and MAX training as similar as possible included limiting external discussion of the maneuvering characteristics augmentation system (MCAS) as early as 2013, as well as an aggressive lobbying effort to dissuade Lion Air from requiring simulator sessions for its pilots, new documents released by the manufacturer revealed.

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1. UK ‘Will Leave’ EASA, Says British Transportation Secretary

The UK will withdraw as a member state of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) after a transition period and shift responsibility for aircraft certification and safety regulation to its own Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), British Transportation Secretary Grant Shapps said.

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2020 not only saw the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic which changed air travel forever but also the termination of the Boeing/Embraer deal, the return of the MAX, and the UK leaving EASA. We take a look back at the 10 most viewed articles across Aviation Week's 2020 air transport content.

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