A “toehold of recovery” in the business jet market in the third quarter in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to continue, with respondents to a survey from the Asian Sky Group saying they feel better about their business prospects going forward.
In 2018, seeing the crop of potentially disruptive startups pursuing new forms of aerial mobility, Boeing formed NeXt. Now it is moving to shutter NeXt as swiftly as it can.
There was a sustained and unified emphasis on accentuating the positives during the British Business and General Aviation Association’s Brexit webinar held Sept. 22.
Just months after buying the factories as part of a prepandemic acquisition spree, Connecticut-based aero engine supplier Whitcraft Group is auctioning several plants across the U.S. next month as part of a retrenchment effort.
Despite numerous studies and reports on the cleanliness of passenger aircraft and the low risk of infection while aboard, the implementation of tangible and visible measures is key to building passenger confidence.
Vertical noted that many of the advancements in battery technology have emerged from the automotive sector, but these batteries are “not optimized for aviation gravimetric energy or power density requirements.”
Neste Corporation and Royal Dutch Shell have signed a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply agreement, in a bid to anticipate increasing demand from airlines.
Barring the equivalent of light speed regulatory action in Europe, Spirit AeroSystems appears unlikely to close its proposed $420 million acquisition of Asco Industries—at least not under the current terms that expire Oct. 1.
Flight services provider DroneUp on Sept. 22 announced a pilot program with Walmart and Quest Diagnostics to deliver COVID-19 test sample collection kits by drone in North Las Vegas, Nevada.
A Boeing-developed ultraviolet wand that can sanitize aircraft interiors will be manufactured by Florida-based lighting specialists Healthe after final validation testing under the aircraft manufacturer’s latest ecoDemonstrator program.
IATA is now calling for systematic COVID-19 testing of all international passengers before departure as a key part of efforts to restart aviation during the coronavirus pandemic.
In a last-ditch effort to prevent mass airline employee furloughs beginning Oct. 1., two U.S. Senate Republicans introduced a bill to extend the Payroll Support Program (PSP) through March 31, 2021.
Partners in Aviation co-founder and President Mark Molloy is a professional matchmaker, although his matchups involve bringing together those wanting to co-own a business aircraft.
Textron Aviation avoided a strike by its hourly workforce when members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers accepted the company’s final offer of a new four-year labor contract on Sept. 19.
