Merlin Labs is developing technologies that enable autonomous flights by in-service aircraft. The implications of this are clear. Even though CEO Matt George talks about the dirty, boring, and dangerous flights being their primary target, the commercial aviation industry will…
Airbus hosted a Virtual Commercial and & Program Update for the media yesterday. In the absence of what could have been Day 2 at PAS 2021, the event was an overview of Airbus’ current aircraft types and comments on the…
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Now that the US and EU have frozen their war on state aid for large civil aircraft, the question is: how will aircraft funding change after the trade dispute? In the ‘Understanding on a cooperative framework for Large Civil Aircraft’,…
Airbus will definitely launch a freighter-version of the A350 but only once the business case is done. During an online Commercial and Program Update media event on June 15, Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer acknowledged that the market is pushing…
Top Aviation News Stories – Archives AirInsight US Airline Index Traffic hit a post pandemic of nearly 2.1 million passengers on Sunday. US domestic traffic levels are rapidly returning to pre-pandemic levels, with international traffic remaining down due to continued…