The CAA-led eVTOL Safety Leadership Group includes potential operators, manufacturers, rotorcraft experts and aviation companies which have been brought together to foster understanding of the aviation safety implications of advanced air mobility.
Major aircraft lessor Avolon said it signed an agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), which is endeavoring to grow as an independent freighter conversion company, to be IAI’s launch customer for their Airbus A330-300 freighter conversion program.
The major U.S. airlines are taking steps to comply with a directive from the Biden administration ordering large federal contractors to vaccinate their employees by Dec. 8.
Financial losses across the world’s airlines are expected to total $201 billion for the pandemic-struck years of 2020-2022, IATA said at its 2021 AGM in Boston.
Argentina’s flag-carrier Aerolineas Argentinas believes domestic demand is recovering at a steady clip, and domestic traffic could inch closer to 2019 levels early in 2022.
Germany has formally inaugurated the first commercial plant for producing carbon-neutral synthetic kerosene from water, captured CO2 and renewable electricity.
IATA has given its members a new sustainability target of achieving net zero emissions by the year 2050 despite the opposition of its Chinese airline members.
An added benefit of IATA’s first in-person annual general meeting (AGM) since 2019 is airlines across all business models can come together to trade stories about riding the waves of the pandemic.
IATA called on governments from around the world to remove travel restrictions for vaccinated passengers, arguing that “wildly inconsistent” entry requirements have stalled the global air transport industry’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The airlines, which have existing approvals from regulators to operate a joint business until March 2023, will seek re-authorization to continue the core elements of the partnership until 2028.
GE Aviation says it will use a modified Saab 340B regional airliner as a flying testbed for hybrid electric propulsion technology to be evaluated as part of NASA’s Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) program.
Delegates from across the air transport spectrum will descend upon Boston Oct. 3-5 for IATA’s 2021 Annual General Meeting (AGM) to discuss the state of an industry that continues to face an uphill climb toward 2019 levels of activity.
The challenge for IATA, its new Director General Willie Walsh and the industry is not to look backward and attempt to re-establish the status quo ante, but to build something new.
The availability of feedstocks for biofuels in the Netherlands in 2050 is expected to be far lower than the demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), concludes a report released by the Royal NLR aerospace research center.
Most airlines and maintenance providers plan to increase their use of used serviceable material (USM), and some are shifting their policies to include sourcing more alternative parts.
The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines has told Aviation Daily that the carrier is in the final stages of choosing whether to order Airbus A350-1000 or Boeing 777X aircraft for its long-haul fleet.
Qantas has advanced its resumption date for some key international long-haul routes, prompted by the relaxation of border and quarantine restrictions by the Australian government.
Velo3D, a metal 3D-printing startup that is targeting aerospace and defense customers among others, started trading as a public company Sept. 30 when its shares moved on to the New York Stock Exchange.
NASA has awarded contracts to GE Aviation and MagniX for the Electric Powertrain Flight Demonstration (EPFD) program, which aims to mature megawatt-class electrified aircraft propulsion (EAP) technologies for regional and single-aisle transport aircraft from 2035 onwards.
