A table listing stored passenger aircraft in the March 5 edition (p. 24) contained an error regarding Boeing 747-400s. Last week, Aviation Week Intelligence Network data showed 58 of the 747 variant were parked. An industry source indicated several of those would return to revenue service soon.

Low-cost carriers such as Ryanair are capturing more market share in Italy, which has prompted Alitalia to fight back by seeking to acquire Blue Panorama and Wind Jet. Blue Panorama, owned by Franco Pecci, operates both charter and leisure flights, as well as scheduled traffic through its low-cost arm, Blu-Express. It has a fleet of 12 mostly leased Boeing aircraft, half of them widebodies, and operates from bases at Rome's Fiumicino Airport and Milan's Malpensa Airport. In 2011, it carried around 2 million passengers.

A junior German politician is trying hard to undermine EADS's newly restored peaceful governance. Peter Hintze, aviation coordinator of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government, claims that Germany's interests in the aerospace and defense group are not being preserved. This surprising assertion comes in the aftermath of Thomas Enders's proposal to consolidate in Toulouse the group's double headquarters, which are now in Paris and Ottobrunn, Germany. Enders, who is currently Airbus chief, will become EADS's leader in May when Louis Gallois retires.

Icing has been a threat to aviation since the dawn of the aeronautic age, and as manufacturers pursue efficiency improvements measured in fractions of a percent, the power demanded to protect aircraft—whether by bleed air or electrical heating—is coming under attack. At the same time, unmanned-aircraft developers see the need to operate in all weather conditions, but cannot afford the power and weight penalties associated with traditional anti-icing systems. Nanotechnology may hold the answer, at both ends of the spectrum.

With nearly two-thirds of its global workforce located in France, Safran Chief Executive Jean Paul Herteman says his company is fiercely determined to retain industrial skills at home, where the Paris-based propulsion group has invested heavily over the past few years, including construction of six new facilities since 2010.

India's ambitious in-house civil aircraft development program, which looks to build a 70-90-seat regional jet, has run into its first spots of turbulence—a turf war over who the overseer should be, entangled with a generous measure of institutional red tape that is delaying investments.

When Airbus and Boeing orderbooks swell, purveyors of used aircraft and lessors benefit by satisfying demand the aircraft builders cannot.

Japan's airspace, already among the most congested in the world, is facing new pressure as more flights are funneled into Tokyo airports.