All In Depth – Page 14
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In depthCorporate customers help airlines on journey to affordable sustainable fuel
Amid a profound shift towards sustainability in the wider economy, airlines are getting a helping hand from an unlikely source to help them pay for pricey sustainable aviation fuel
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Covid-19 sees Air Seychelles operate in a world transformed
With a small fleet and tough geographic challenges, Air Seychelles has found itself in a completely new world during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Rolls-Royce closes on first flight of Spirit of Innovation and eyes speed record attempt
Rolls-Royce will make its bid for the world speed record for an electric aircraft later this summer following minor delays to its ACCEL project.
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How NASA intends to make the next narrowbody airliners 25% more efficient
NASA’s new Sustainable Flight National Partnership aims to boost the efficiency of the next generation of single-aisle jets by up to a quarter and simultaneously enhance competitiveness of the US aerospace industry.
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Boeing sees SAF as short-term solution as sustainability drive gathers pace
Boeing believes that sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) can offer the biggest carbon-reduction benefit to the industry in the short-term while waiting for new propulsion technologies to mature.
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Flight International Letters, July 2021
Your views about the aerospace industry and our reporting
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How 3D printing can transform aviation industrial production
Additive manufacturing – or 3D printing – has been around in aerospace for 30 years. But it is only now making the leap from niche technology to a process with the potential to transform industrial production
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Hailing Russia’s latest rotary revolutionaries
Owner of the Kamov and Mil design houses – more famed for military aircraft – is quietly increasing its share of the civil market too as the company seeks to establish a better balance.
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How Rostec is powering Russia’s aerospace renaissance
The holding company behind Russia’s aviation assets sees a bright future for its aerospace industry under effective state ownership, as it works to grow presence in civil sector.
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Il-114-300 set to become Russia’s local hero
Russia’s Il-114 is approaching service entry in its -300 guise, almost 30 years after the Ilyushin design’s emergence – and with local demand rising, it looks set to make a successful return.
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MC-21 programme spearheads Russian industry revival
Irkut’s MC-21 is on track for first delivery this year with imported key components – but the programme is championing near-term readiness with Russian engines and homegrown composites.
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Airline Business Index shows industry below two-thirds of pre-Covid size
The latest quarterly Airline Business Index shows the global airline industry is still below two-thirds of its pre-pandemic size, at a score of 60 (2019 = 100), with only a small uptick in the data over the three months to 31 March 2021.
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AirAsia’s MRO unit touts expertise, sees opportunity amid gloom
Despite commencing operations in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, AirAsia Group’s MRO unit Asia Digital Engineering (ADE) sees a silver lining in the crisis, which has brought most of the aviation industry to its knees.
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Airline coronavirus recovery tracker: June 2021 update
Our regular examination of the latest global data for several key airline market indicators, including international and domestic travel restrictions, traffic and capacity in passenger and cargo markets, in-service and stored fleets, jet fuel costs, and share price trends for the world’s largest groups.
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The big shift: How the pandemic forced US airlines to revamp networks
Carriers are now deploying jets on numerous new “point-to-point” routes that connect secondary cities to leisure destinations. Such flights bypass major hubs – a strategy departing starkly from that of the heady pre-Covid years, when carriers centralised nearly all their operations at handfuls of major hubs.
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Glacial pace of vaccine rollouts puts freeze on Southeast Asia's airlines
A resurgence of Covid-19 in Southeast Asia, coupled with the slow pace of vaccine campaigns, suggest the region’s airlines will remain under severe pressure.
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The airline start-ups trying to confound Covid crisis by launching during pandemic
FlightGlobal has spoken to the leaders behind start-ups across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas about their respective launch carriers’ ambitions and for perspectives on starting an airline during the crisis.
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A400M sales set to take off, says Airbus programme manager
With its 100th operational aircraft delivered and several key development hurdles cleared within the last 18 months, the A400M is now “at a turning point”, the Airbus Defence & Space official in charge of the programme believes.
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China’s J-10 comes of age with indigenous engine
The recent appearance of an operational Chengdu J-10C powered with a domestically made engine marks a key moment for the single-engined type in the Peoples’ Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF).
