The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated global aviation. The fallout is being severely felt across the African continent. Even before the pandemic, only 9% of the continent’s air traffic was intra-African. It’s common to hear stories that the fastest, easiest, and…
Boeing provided an update on their ecoDemonstrator program. The program started in 2012 using an American Airline 737-800. Since then they have utilized several other models: 2014 was the 787, 2015 was the 757; 2016 an Embraer E-170; 2018 used…
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Will we see consolidation in the business jet market as a result of the pandemic? The business jet market, which saw growth stagnate since the Great Recession in 2008, was not hit quite as hard as the airline market by…
Guess who’s 30 years old today? May 14, 1991, was the first flight of the Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ). Here’s the Press Release from that memorable day. The PR notes: “The Canadair Regional Jet is the world’s only twin-engined jetliner…
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will reassess a possible program restart of the SpaceJet during the current financial year 2021, which runs until March 2022. The decision is marked as a ‘key activity’ in this year’s planning, the Japanese company said during…