All Analysis – Page 8
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AnalysisAre eVTOL cabins the next big opportunity for cabin suppliers?
Electrical-powered urban air mobility platforms represent a potentially lucrative new market for seat manufacturers and other interior equipment specialists
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AnalysisExpliseat aims to be lightweight champion in aircraft seats
French company’s founders set out to create the lightest airliner seat on the market. Just over a decade on, their innovative product is beginning to gain traction outside the regional sector
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AnalysisSeating start-up Unum is ready to deliver
After emerging as a new name in seating at last year’s AIX show, the company has finance in place, products on display and is poised to launch production – once its first order comes in.
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AnalysisFlying to faster and free on-board wi-fi
Once a novelty, rapid, reliable and even complimentary connectivity is something many passengers now expect. As satellite access improves and choices widen, the latest trends and advances will be discussed and on show at June’s Aircraft Interiors Expo.
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AnalysisHow seat suppliers are adapting products for long-range narrowbodies
As airlines deploy narrowbody aircraft on ever longer routes, seat makers are tasked with ensuring this does not result in a slimmed down premium passenger experience.
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AnalysisCan Boeing ecoDemonstrator's Asian flight be catalyst for air navigation efficiencies?
Now, in partnership with ANSPs in the USA, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand, Boeing will deploy the 787, its first ecoDemonstrator Explorer aircraft, to test trajectory-based operations (TBO), through which multiple nations work together to optimise flight paths, from takeoff to touchdown.
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AnalysisLufthansa returns to growth ambitions with ITA deal
Lufthansa Group has agreed on options to potentially acquire the remainder of ITA Airways after striking a deal today to purchase 41% of the Italian carrier.
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AnalysisMaintenance, management and medevac: Aero-Dienst marks 65 years at EBACE
Aero-Dienst is marking its sixty-fifth birthday at EBACE, making it one of Europe’s oldest business aviation entities. It is not the Nuremberg company’s only significant milestone in 2023. German automobile club ADAC acquired Aero-Dienst 25 years ago, as its fixed-wing medevac arm. From its base at Nuremberg airport, the firm ...
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AnalysisTen years after its debut flight, A350 widebody is flying high
With a decade having passed since the first flight of its A350 twinjet, Airbus is regaining production momentum after the pandemic ravaged demand for widebody capacity.
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AnalysisHow close is the airline industry to full recovery from Covid-19?
There were points during the Covid-19 crisis where predicting when the airline industry would recover to 2019 levels almost became a competitive sport.
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AnalysisBoeing betting that SAF will carry aviation to net-zero carbon target
Though propulsion systems powered by electricity and hydrogen show promise, Boeing says sustainable aviation fuel has emerged as the leading emissions-reduction strategy for airlines worldwide.
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AnalysisLondon calling: capital’s business aviation airports are investing to lure customers
Paris may boast the world’s busiest business aviation airport at Le Bourget, and Geneva and Nice can count themselves among Europe’s most popular destinations for well-heeled flyers. However, no city has as many airports competing to be its preferred private aviation gateway as London. Discounting its major airline hubs Heathrow ...
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AnalysisAirline Business performance tracker: Americas Q1 2023
Key data from the most-recent Americas earnings period – the January-March 2023 quarter – and the equivalent periods stretching back to the last pre-Covid year, powered by Airline Business Insight
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AnalysisCan Indian MRO sector meet market potential?
For all its ambitions to be an aviation powerhouse in its own right, India’s fledgling aerospace sector has some way to go.
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AnalysisOff the menu: why airlines are offloading catering units to focus on flying
Lufthansa Group’s announcement in April that it had agreed to sell its remaining catering business, LSG Group, to private equity firm Aurelius was the latest example of an airline divesting non-core units in order to focus on the bread-and-butter activity of transporting people and cargo.
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AnalysisAir France-KLM upbeat over summer outlook but Schiphol cloud remains
Over the course of the shared years since Air France and KLM came together it has always been the French carrier whose challenges have dwarfed those of its Dutch partner.
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AnalysisUnpacking Alan Joyce’s Qantas legacy
Alan Joyce will retire from Qantas in November after 15 years at the helm, and he departs with a mixed legacy, including standing up to worker unions, and seeing the airline through the coronavirus pandemic.
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AnalysisCan business aviation's leading players ride out market turbulence?
Private aviation flew through the pandemic relatively unscathed and began 2023 in robust health. As it readies for EBACE, can the industry maintain its course amid global turbulence?
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AnalysisWhich business aviation programmes are gaining momentum?
After a few years of heated activity on the programme front, including through the pandemic, the business aviation industry may be entering a quieter period. However, manufacturers have a habit of announcing the unexpected.
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AnalysisNearly 500 regional jets parked in USA: Cirium fleets data
The figures starkly illustrate the widespread struggles of the regional airline industry, which, according to the Regional Airline Association (RAA) has been at risk of “collapse” in recent months.