Airbus will start flight-testing wing extensions on an A321neo test aircraft from HY2 next year to evaluate the effects of a longer wingspan. The test is part of the Wing of Tomorrow program, on which Airbus has been working since…
Day 2 of the Farnborough Airshow produced another batch of aircraft orders, including the first – and likely only ones this week – for Embraer. Airbus and Boeing also grew their backlog. Latin America’s Abra Group has become the latest…
CORRECTION – Day 1 of the 2026 Farnborough Airshow ended with orders for 254 commercial aircraft, including an MoU and options. Stealing the headlines is lessor SMBC Aviation Capital, which went shopping with both Boeing and Airbus for 200 narrowbodies.…
UPDATE – While Airbus needs at least four more years to finalise the specifications of its Next-Generation Single Aisle (NGSA) aircraft, the engine that is in pole position for this plane is making steady progress. GE Aerospace and Safran stress…
Embraer has trimmed the delivery forecast for small regional narrowbodies below 150 seats to 8.500 aircraft, down from 8.740 in the Market Outlooks of the two previous years. A keyword that returns in the report is “fragmentation” of the market,…
Boeing’s latest 20-year delivery forecast for 43.625 aircraft is almost identical to last year’s Commercial Market Outlook (CMO). It’s just 25 aircraft more compared to the 2025 edition. This tiny difference is explained by what Darren Hulst, Vice President of…