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Paid contentExpanded focus on Asia’s airports, ports and logistic hubs to enhance success at Super Terminal Expo 2025
Super Terminal Expo successfully concluded its inaugural event in November 2024, establishing a premier platform bringing together key players in the aviation industry.
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NewsKorean Air improves full-year profit despite supply chain challenges
Korean Air has attributed a dip in its fourth-quarter passenger revenue to global supply chains that are still experiencing “ongoing recovery”, while maintaining profitability for the full year.
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NewsSonderborg to be first Danish airport with digital tower
Denmark’s regional Sonderborg airport is to be equipped with a digital control tower, the first in the country to adopt such technology. The airport will implement the tower system to provide air traffic services remotely. Its operator has selected the ‘r-TWR’ system produced by Saab Digital Air Traffic Solutions. “This ...
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NewsAirbus starts year with strong widebody orders including A350Fs
Airbus has started the year strongly with several orders from unidentified customers including agreements for six A350-900s, three A350 freighters and 10 A330-900s. It listed orders for 29 widebody jets in January out of a total of 55 aircraft. These included five A350-1000s for Lufthansa and five A350Fs for Taiwan’s ...
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NewsBoeing sees India, South Asia carriers needing over 2,800 new aircraft by 2043
Boeing forecasts a significant increase in the number of commercial aircraft required by Indian and South Asian operators over the next 20 years, amid sustained economic growth and strong travel demand.
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NewsElon Musk’s institution-dismantling DOGE turns attention to US air traffic control
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he has held aviation-focused talks with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggesting that drastic change could come to the country’s civil aviation regulators.
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NewsBombardier warns on US import tariff uncertainty but puts ‘solid contingency plans’ in place
Bombardier chief executive Eric Martel has highlighted the airframer’s extensive US industrial presence and strong trading relationship as he used the company’s full-year results call to warn against the imposition of tariffs on Canada-built products.
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NewsFamilies’ attorneys ask new DOJ head Bondi to intervene in Boeing plea deal
A lawyer for relatives of passengers killed by two Boeing 737 Max crashes is urging new US attorney general Pam Bondi to get involved with negotiating a guilty plea by Boeing on charges that it defrauded the Federal Aviation Administration.
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In depth‘Conglomerates are out’: How Honeywell’s break up plan could revive aerospace business
Analysts think Honeywell’s decision to spin its aerospace division into a new standalone company could be a recipe to fix a business suffereing from under investment.
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NewsEgypt earmarks 11 airports for privatisation programme: civil aviation minister
Egypt’s government is conducting a strategic study to explore models for airport privatisation, before commencing a pilot project which is expected to start with Hurghada airport. Speaking during a sectoral UK mission in London on 3 February, Egyptian minister of civil aviation Sameh Ahmed El-Hefny said the government will work ...
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NewsWages wait continues for Lilium Aerospace employees
Lilium Aerospace employees are still no clearer when their wages for January will be paid after another week passed under the electric air taxi developer’s new ownership.
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NewsAALTO ready to accelerate Zephyr testing after 13-day debut over Kenya
AALTO plans to launch several additional test flights of its ultra-long-endurance Zephyr from a new facility in Kenya this year, following a successful first sortie which spanned more than 13 days.
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NewsNorthrop Grumman prepares to deliver second and third MQ-4Cs to Australia
One of the maritime surveillance UAVs is already in service with the Royal Australian Air Force, with two more examples undergoing final evaluations before delivery.
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NewsEmbraer takes backlog to $26.3 billion record
A major deal from Flexjet helped Embraer boost its backlog to a record $26.3 billion at the end of 2024, a 40% year-on-year increase, the Brazilian airframer said today.
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NewsFirst donated Mirage 2000-5 fighters arrive, as Ukraine also boosts F-16 fleet
Ukraine’s air force has received its first Dassault Aviation Mirage 2000-5 fighters from France, while also continuing to boost its fleet of donated Lockheed Martin F-16s.
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NewsHoneywell Aerospace to become stand-alone business as part of company break-up
Honeywell is to spin-out its aerospace unit as a stand-alone listed business on the back of a strategic review into the future of the industrial conglomerate.
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NewsIl-114-300 steadily progressing with certification campaign: United Aircraft
Russia’s modernised Ilyushin Il-114-300 turboprop has conducted over 20 certification flights, according to developer United Aircraft. The company says an “intensive” flight-test programme for the twin-engined aircraft is continuing, out of the Lukhovitsy airfield near Moscow, and more than 70 sorties have been completed covering in excess of 200h. United ...
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AnalysisHow year-end losses skewed our review of airline safety performance in 2024
An otherwise solid set of airline safety statistics through much of 2024 was transformed by two deadly losses, while pilot action elsewhere kept the final figures from being much worse.
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NewsKorean ministry to roll out bird-detection technology in wake of Jeju 737 accident
Korean authorities are planning a broad deployment of bird-detection radar, as well as imaging and deterrent technology, in the aftermath of the fatal Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 accident. The aircraft suffered a bird-strike to both engines during approach to Muan airport on 29 December, and collided with an ILS installation ...
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NewsIndiGo damp-leases one 787 from Norse Atlantic
Indian operator IndiGo has signed a damp lease agreement with Scandinavian low-cost carrier Norse Atlantic Airways for a sole Boeing 787-9, which will enter service in March.