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NewsHints of progress with China’s Hawkeye doppelganger
A series of images from Chinese social media suggest that the Xian KJ-600 airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft flew in late August, marking a milestone in Beijing’s blue water navy ambitions. US Navy (USN) officers serving aboard aircraft carriers are fond of saying that the first aircraft they ...
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NewsAir New Zealand considers laying off hundreds more cabin crew
Air New Zealand is considering making hundreds of cabin crew redundant as a “last resort” measure in response to a reduction in long-haul demand. The flag carrier tells Cirium it has reduced its Los Angeles passenger service from a daily frequency to three return flights per week, and converted all ...
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NewsChina’s ‘Big Three’ close in on full domestic traffic recovery
Two of China’s three largest carriers have recorded new highs in domestic passenger traffic for the year, underpinning the Chinese airline industry’s rapid domestic recovery from the coronavirus outbreak. In traffic results released for August, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines carried more passengers than they did in ...
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NewsUSAF Special Ops return to niche missions for great power competition
US Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) plans to move away from some of the counter terrorism and anti-insurgency missions that it assumed after the 11 September 2001 attacks, in favour of traditional niche roles in the USA’s budding great power competition with Russia and China.
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NewsUSAF secretly builds and flies next-generation fighter demonstrator
The US Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown a full-scale demonstrator aircraft that is part of its Next Generation Air Dominance programme.
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NewsAmpaire’s second hybrid Cessna gets airborne ahead of Hawaii demonstration flights
Electric aircraft specialist Ampaire has flown a second Cessna 337 Skymaster powered partly by an electric motor, a development coming ahead of planned airline demonstration flights before year end.
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NewsBusiness and general aviation deliveries holding up despite Covid impact
GAMA figures show shipments fell by just over one-fifth during the pandemic’s peak, but the sector has so far escaped the collapse that has hit the airliner industry.
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NewsGulf Air chief Kucko to step down
Gulf Air chief executive Kresimir Kucko is to step down from the role at the end of September after almost three years at the helm.
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OpinionWhy Big Data will be key to successful airline recovery
Analysing travellers’ behaviour online to gauge demand is the way forward for network planners, as new research has found
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NewsAeroflot cleared to increase share capital
Aeroflot has won shareholder approval to increase its authorised capital to 1.95 billion shares.
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NewsEmirates deploys A380 on Moscow route to meet ‘strong demand’
Emirates has upgauged the aircraft deployed for its newly restarted Dubai-Moscow service to an Airbus A380.
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NewsItaly again cites Ryanair over compliance with Covid measures
Italy’s civil aviation authority is meeting with Ryanair on 16 September to discuss allegations of non-compliance with the country’s Covid-related health measures.
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AnalysisLongview sees the biggest sales rise
Canadian company’s acquisition of the Dash 8 programme from Bombardier saw it surge up the rankings
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AnalysisAcquisitive TransDigm again tops the operating margins table
Fresh from its acquisition of Esterline Technologies, the fast growing aerospace and defence holding group has managed to retain its impressive profitability performance
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AnalysisDefence market unscathed as big players enjoy sales hike
While the coronavirus may have devastated the commercial aviation sector, the defence market has remained relatively unscathed. The cost to governments of furloughing workers combined with an economic downturn that could last for years will exert fiscal pressure on military budgets. At the same time, defence spending is driven by ...
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AnalysisAirbus increases the gap in commercial revenues over Boeing
How did the Top 100 companies rank when it came to sales in the airliner and business aircraft segments? As in the main table, Boeing descended sharply
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AnalysisAirbus displaces Boeing as aerospace’s biggest company
Seattle’s tumultuous 2019 has seen it slip behind its European rival in our latest annual Top 100 rankings
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AnalysisTop 100 aerospace companies ranked by revenue
Our latest annual industry league table, based on financial figures from before the coronavirus pandemic struck, reflects Boeing’s existing 737 Max troubles, the impact of mergers and acquisitions, and some signs that growth was flattening ahead of the latest crisis
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In depthWhy 1970 fundamentally redefined air transport
However you look at it, 1970 was an epoch-making year for commercial aviation. The revolution in aircraft design heralded in that year would be the springboard for the airline industry to accelerate capacity growth in a way it could only dream about previously.
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In depthFive decades of widebody deliveries and development
Since Boeing handed the first 747-100 (N733PA) to Pan Am at its Everett plant near Seattle on 12 December 1969, the world’s manufacturers have delivered almost 9,700 more widebodies to airlines, governments, air forces – and even some wealthy individuals.