From the Chinese stock market falls that began the year to Donald Trump's election as US president which ended it, 2016 was full of shocks and surprises. Yet global airline fortunes largely remained on course as air travel growth and the industry's new levels of profitability continued. FlightGlobal's World Airline Rankings detail how the industry's leading carriers performed in 2016.

Textron Aviation has delivered its first fully configured Hawker 400XPR light business jet from its service centre in Wichita, Kansas to an unnamed Seattle-based company. The handover of the modified 400XP comes 10 months after the XPR upgrade package secured US certification.

Continued weakness in the turboprop market between April and June contributed to a $25 million fall in revenues for Textron Aviation, to $1.17 billion. However, the slide was partially offset by higher business jet deliveries and firmer pricing on new aircraft.