Satellite operator Iridium announced on Nov. 10 that its Certus 100 satellite communications service is now commercially available for aviation and other applications.
Lease rates on current-generation models that declined during the downturn are reversing course, with even some widebody values showing resilience, AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly said.
An aviation sustainability initiative tabled by the UK government at COP26 has secured buy-in from 22 states, but environmental lobby groups scorned the group’s commitments as too weak and supported a more ambitious hoax announcement instead.
Zero-emissions propulsion startup Universal Hydrogen has signed an agreement with a clean-energy subsidiary of Australian mining company Fortescue Metals Group to secure a supply of green hydrogen through to 2035.
Emirates Group said its fiscal first-half (H1) loss narrowed to AED5.7 billion ($1.5 billion), down from AED14.1 billion in the same period a year earlier, as easing travel restrictions underpinned the recovery.
De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd. will complete the few remaining Dash 8-400s under production at its Toronto facility before pausing production to review “future opportunities.”
Two Airbus A350s arrived at Canada’s Montreal-Trudeau International Airport on Nov. 9 having avoided emitting more than 6 metric tons of CO2 by flying in geese-like formation across the Atlantic from Toulouse.
The $1.2 trillion infrastructure package passed by the U.S. House of Representatives will send at least $25 billion to fund airport infrastructure upgrades.
Airbus Helicopters has performed what it claims to be the first helicopter flight on 100% sustainable aviation fuel, albeit powering only one of the two engines on the H225 testbed.
Startup ZeroAvia has partnered with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics to develop a supplemental type certificate for its conversion of the 19-passenger Dornier 228 regional turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Jean Pierson "enabled Airbus Industrie to leverage its different national strengths and with his foresight and the different innovation capabilities, set our company on the path to success," Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said of the former leader of the European OEM.
Boeing’s latest Current Market Outlook (CMO) highlights the degree to which global aviation growth will be driven by the Asia-Pacific region, according to a senior Boeing executive.
As air travel recovers, Finnair plans to fly to almost 100 destinations in Asia, the U.S. and Europe during the next summer schedule, which begins March 27, 2022.
For the aerospace and defense industry, the breakup of General Electric has spurred a flurry of brainstorming over how GE Aviation could combine with other A&D assets to form the next industry colossus.
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines is preparing for a competitive summer 2022 season as LCCs Ryanair and Wizz Air ramp up their presence at Vienna International Airport.
Embraer CEO Francisco Gomes Neto said that the E175’s status as the only scope-compliant large regional jet “still in production today” ensures it will continue to sell heavily to airlines in the U.S. over the next 10 years.
