Airlines, airports, aircraft programmes and the business of flight.
Fleet decisions, route economics, airport infrastructure and the engineering behind it. We report what the industry announces, then what it actually does.
The gains are coming from bag storage and door management rather than from clever boarding sequences, which trials keep showing make little practical difference.
The carrier has taken firm delivery slots through 2032 and options on a further 25 aircraft, betting that short-haul demand in the region holds through the next downturn.
Carriers that added a second daily connecting wave in 2024 are reporting materially better aircraft utilisation. The catch is that it only works where the airport can absorb it.
With replacement types delayed and residual values holding firm, the average regional turboprop is now approaching an age its designers never modelled.
A high-pressure turbine blade issue found during endurance testing will delay entry into service by around fourteen months, with three launch customers affected.
The planning decision permits a third pier and 24 additional stands, but ties construction to noise and surface-access commitments that will shape the next decade of operations.
The work cannot wait another season. Airlines have been given eleven weeks of reduced night capacity and have responded by moving cargo rotations wholesale.
A generation of terminal design optimised for retail dwell time is giving way to layouts organised around passenger flow rates. The architecture looks different because the objective…
Controllers are now working across two systems at once. The efficiency case for the new one depends on finishing a transition that has no natural deadline.
Production capacity has roughly tripled in three years. Measured against the blending requirements that arrive at the end of the decade, that is not close to enough.
Rates have found a floor well above 2019 and well below the pandemic peak. Freighter operators are rebuilding their fleet plans around the middle.
Serious incident rates fell for a third consecutive year, but crew fatigue reporting rose sharply and the investigators are unusually direct about why.
