FlightFriday

By Daniel Williams
This week #FlightFriday looks at Indian operators and their narrowbody jets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
Boeing’s sale of its Gatwick MRO facility, which was expected to perform passenger-to-freighter conversions on 737s, suggests P2F conversions may have peaked.
Air Transport

By William Moore, Daniel Williams
This week’s Flight Friday looks at the utilization, in flight cycles, of three Boeing cargo aircraft types over the previous two years.
Air Transport

By Daniel Williams
With Aviation Week’s MRO Middle East coming up in Dubai, this week’s Flight Friday looks at recent flights for Middle Eastern operators by aircraft class.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
With Aviation Week’s MRO Latin America coming up, this week’s Flight Friday looks at the last two years of flights for Latin American operators by aircraft class.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
With Boeing delivering the final 777-300ER at the end of 2024, this week’s Flight Friday looks back at how 777 cycles have been since the beginning of 2019.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
Flight Friday looks back at annual utilization split out by aircraft class (narrowbody, widebody, regional Jets and regional turboprops) from 2019 to 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
As a new year begins, Flight Friday looks back to an event that happened one year ago: the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 door plug blowout on Jan. 5, 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
With MEBAA 2024 wrapping up in Dubai, this week’s Flight Friday focuses on flights of large business jets by European and Middle Eastern operators.
Business Aviation

By Daniel Williams
In this week's Flight Friday, we turn our attention to the Airbus A330 family. Between 2019 and 2024, the A330 fleet witnessed a substantial reduction.
Air Transport

By Daniel Williams
Revisiting and updating one of the most popular Flight Fridays in 2024, this week we again look at the CFM Leap and Pratt & Whitney PW1000G (GTF).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
Coinciding with Aviation Week's MRO Australasia, this week’s Flight Friday examines how the Asia-Pacific region and Australia are performing compared to 2019.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
With Aviation Week Events MRO Europe coming up in Barcelona, Spain, Flight Friday looks at how Europe is faring compared to 2019.
MRO Europe

By Daniel Williams
With the upcoming NBAA event Oct. 22-24, Flight Friday looks at the recovery and sustained post-pandemic utilization levels within the business aviation sector.
Business Aviation

By Daniel Williams
Flight Friday examines the Boeing 757's pioneering role in the aviation industry, which broke the mold for using narrowbody aircraft on transatlantic routes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
After CFM International celebrated its 50th birthday on Tuesday, this week’s #FlightFriday looks at how important the CFM56 still is to the aviation industry.
Air Transport

By Daniel Williams
With MRO Asia-Pacific approaching, this week's Flight Friday examines indexed flight cycles for combined operators in Asia-Pacific, China and India.
MRO Asia

By Daniel Williams
Flight Friday looks at indexed cycles against the equivalent month in 2019 of passenger narrowbodies and how they have recovered to beyond pre-pandemic levels.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Daniel Williams
Flight Friday looks at cycles (flights) of some select engines that power narrowbody passenger aircraft in Europe.
Air Transport

By Daniel Williams
This week's Flight Friday looks at the flight cycles of specific engines powering widebody aircraft, comparing them to the equivalent month in 2019.
Air Transport

By Daniel Williams
As airlines in the Northern Hemisphere enjoy their summer peak, Flight Friday looks at passenger flights from January to July over the 2019-24 period.
Air Transport

By Daniel Williams
This week’s Flight Friday looks at how the largest four U.S. low-cost carriers (LCCs) are faring compared to 2019.
Airlines & Lessors

By Daniel Williams
With Regional Express (Rex) filing for voluntary administration, Flight Friday looks at the current state of Australia's larger operators in terms of flights.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Daniel Williams
As Farnborough Airshow 2024 comes to a close, we look at widebody passenger flight hours of operators that confirmed twin-aisle aircraft orders at the show.
Farnborough Airshow

By Daniel Williams
This week’s Flight Friday looks at how the Rolls-Royce-powered Boeing 787s are faring in terms of utilization.
AWIN Knowledge Center