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1 week ago | 
aviationweek.com | Guy Ferneyhough |Maxim Pyadushkin
The new LMS-192 Osvey passenger turboprop developed jointly by Russia and Belarus will take to the air in 2026, according to the governor of a region where the aircraft is to be built. “There were some minor issues with the aircraft’s design, but they have already been resolved,” Piotr Parkhomchik...
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Daniel Williams |Guy Ferneyhough
This year, the number of Airbus A330s converted into freighters reached the half-century mark. While passing the milestone is significant for Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the Airbus-ST Engineering joint venture behind the A330P2F program, the number of the cargo aircraft now in service will look meager...
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Guy Ferneyhough |Daniel Williams
The phenomenal success of the narrowbody over recent decades has created many winners, but the regional aircraft sector has suffered as a result. In Aviation Week Network’s last annual forecast, analysts projected a steady compound annual growth rate of 3.3% for the commercial industry, but the...
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Guy Ferneyhough |Daniel Williams
Since Airbus launched the A330neo, the re-engined widebody has been somewhat in the shadow of the A350 which has sold in larger numbers. However, this year, a couple of factors suggest the Trent 7000-powered twin-aisle could score its highest number of annual orders to date. The A330neo was launched...
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Guy Ferneyhough
FARNBOROUGH—Pratt & Whitney has secured an order from Avolon for the PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) to power 80 Airbus A320neos. Announced here at the Farnborough Airshow, the order is one of the largest placed by a lessor for the GTF to date, Pratt said. "We are building on our collaboration with Avolon, who remains at the forefront of the lessor community," said Rick Deurloo, Pratt’s president of commercial engines.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Daniel Williams |Guy Ferneyhough
Coming out of the pandemic, utilization of A320neo-family aircraft rose sharply. The chart below shows the percentage of non-flying days A320neo-family fleets equipped with the CFM International Leap 1A and Pratt & Whitney PW1100G (GTF) engines experienced per month, as both powerplants have...
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Daniel Williams |Guy Ferneyhough
The number of passenger-to-freighter conversions fell in the first half of the year compared with 2023, according to preliminary figures from Aviation Week Network’s Fleet Discovery. Seventy-three aircraft—ranging from regional turboprops to widebodies—were transformed into freighters in the first...
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Daniel Williams |Guy Ferneyhough
The nature of two engine options is that one will inevitably find favor over the over. In the case of the Boeing 787 this happened early on with the GEnx-1b racking up orders at a faster pace, despite the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 being the program’s launch engine. GE benefited from being the choice of...
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Daniel Williams |Guy Ferneyhough
As Airbus has increasingly globalized the production of its best-selling A320-family narrowbodies, the matter of which final assembly line (FAL) builds what variant has come into focus. Traditionally, the Airbus team in Toulouse put together the A320 while Hamburg assembled the shorter A318/19 and...
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
aviationweek.com | Guy Ferneyhough
Labour leader Keir Starmer (right) and potential treasury chief Rachel Reeves during a visit to Rolls-Royce while on the campaign trail. LONDON—In the run-up to the forthcoming UK general election, the British Labour Party has committed to promoting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), encouraging airspace modernization, and investing in sustainable technologies should its leader Keir Starmer be elected prime minister. The opposition...
