By Charlotte Bailey • AIN Staff Writer  October 1, 2026 Deutsche Aircraft this week opened the final assembly line at Leipzig Halle Airport in northeast ...

By Howard Hardee and Charles Alcock  September 29, 2026  The first flight of the Airbus A350 Freighter on September 29 signified more than the European ...

By Howard Hardee • Editor September 28, 2026 Subscription Required The trickle of oil escaping from the Strait of Hormuz and associated surge in jet fuel prices are unwelcome developments for all ...

By Karl Sinclair • Contributing Writer September 28, 2026 Subscription Required  Buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Soaring fuel costs are squeezing already-thin airline margins, and the ...

By Bjorn Fehrm • Aerospace Analyst September 24, 2026 Subscription Required  Jet fuel prices have doubled since January, and analysts forecast we might not have seen the peak yet (Figure 1). The ...

By Vincent E. Bianco III • Contributing Writer  September 23, 2026 Subscription Required  New air traffic control automation increases controller workload before it reduces it, often for years. Having ...

Recent signs suggest reintegration of Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, Kansas may not be proceeding in the smooth, orderly fashion that Boeing had hoped for. At least, not in the financial sense. Recall ...

Last week we looked at dry fiber layup methods that use a binder to tack fabrics or the tape in an AFP/ATL system to the previous ply, creating a porous but rigid fiber preform. The binder is a ...

Boeing’s admission that the long-delayed certification of the 777X is expected to slip into next year may not surprise many industry observers. For months, it has appeared that the airframer’s ...

The FAA today approved Boeing’s application to allow the production of 35 more 777Fs after December 31, 2027. This is the deadline the FAA adopted to implement a 2017 decision by the International ...

A two-day leadership summit for the commercial aviation ecosystem. August 10–11, 2027, Westin Alexandria Old Town, VA. Agenda, speakers, and tickets announced soon.

Last week we looked at airliner capacity and size and found that measuring it by seats makes sense, since seats are the primary revenue driver for a passenger aircraft. An airliner also transports ...