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Nov 21, 2016
The Latin America region will experience big traffic growth in the next 20 years, much of it from LCCs.
Nov 18, 2016
Donald Trump’s election to the White House means change is coming to the A&D world, but practically no one—maybe not even the president-elect—knows exactly what those changes will be.
Nov 18, 2016
After massively simplifying rules, the FAA is seeing strong growth in remote pilot applications and UAV registrations for commercial uses.
Nov 18, 2016
Aeroflot Group’s LCC Pobeda is expanding rapidly and will make it harder for other low-cost airlines to enter the market.
Nov 18, 2016
Aurora Flight Sciences and Sikorsky complete autonomy demonstrations under Phase 2 of DARPA’s ALIAS cockpit-automation program. Both are now bidding for Phase 3, to mature selected technologies for transition to potential customers—military and commercial.
Nov 18, 2016
Automation is reaching the point that it may be possible for artificial intelligence and robotics to take much of the routine workload of cockpit crews—and “remember” things no humans could in an emergency. Is this the future?
Nov 17, 2016
Boeing will build a new aircraft maintenance hangar at London Gatwick Airport, servicing European airline customers of its GoldCare aftermarket services provision.
Nov 17, 2016
Despite unfavorable conditions, Aeroflot continues to transform itself, showing strong traffic and revenue growth.