Space
Orbital congestion is now a scheduling problem, not a collision problem
Conjunction warnings have become routine enough that the operational cost is manoeuvre planning and lost mission time rather than any…
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Nils Brandt
Chief aviation correspondent · Frankfurt
Nils reports on aircraft programmes, engine development and the supplier base that feeds them. He trained as an aerospace engineer before moving into journalism.
He has spent more time in flight test observation rooms than is strictly healthy.
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Aviation
Boarding technology is finally getting faster, and it has nothing to do with the queue
The gains are coming from bag storage and door management rather than from clever boarding sequences, which trials keep showing make little…
Aviation
Long-haul route economics are quietly being rewritten by the second bank
Carriers that added a second daily connecting wave in 2024 are reporting materially better aircraft utilisation. The catch is that it only…
Aviation
Air traffic modernisation programme enters its awkward middle years
Controllers are now working across two systems at once. The efficiency case for the new one depends on finishing a transition that has no…
Aviation
Sustainable fuel supply is growing fast and still nowhere near the mandates
Production capacity has roughly tripled in three years. Measured against the blending requirements that arrive at the end of the decade…