FlightFriday

How do first half deliveries for the two largest airframers stack up in the last few years?

With nearly 1,000 A320 and 737 MAX family aircraft ordered at Paris Air Show, this week’s #FlightFriday looks at the A320ceo, A320neo, 737-800 and the 737-8 MAX

With the large number of Indian operators announcing orders at Paris Air Show, this week’s Flight Friday looks at the Indian market.

A look at how the Lufthansa Group is fairing by comparing the number of flights (cycles) between January-May 2019 and 2023.

With stability returning to travel globally, the number of flights (cycles) are slowly returning to equivalent 2019 levels.

The business aviation sector has been one of the few bright stars of the pandemic, and we have seen some of that utilization begin to fall and then plateau over

With Aviation Week’s MRO Australasia coming up this month, this week’s #FlightFriday takes a look at Australian and New Zealand operators’ utilization.

We look at the latest generation engines CFM LEAP and Pratt & Whitney GTF against the well-established "legacy" engines CFM56 and IAE V2500.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at the North American market through the lens of aircraft classes.

This week we look at the U.S. "Medium 4" operators in terms of number of scheduled movements.

This week we examine the recovery of passenger flights across the Middle East and Africa.

Russia's domestic traffic has begun to drop below the equivalent month in 2019, suggesting sanctions on aircraft and engine parts may be having an effect.

The first group to return to 100% of 2019 levels was the Latin America narrowbody market, which returned to pre-2019 levels in April 2022.

China was the last large market to remove COVID restrictions, and it is anticipated that the international travel shall continue to rebound.

Helicopter In Service Fleet (ISF) is expected to grow from ~21,500 in 2023 to over 24,000 in 2032.

Middle East carriers thrive on transit passengers through the major Middle Eastern hubs, however, the COVID outbreak put a halt on international traffic.

Overall, January 2023 Latin America flights are almost at 95% of January 2019, showing positive progress to ‘pre-pandemic’ levels.

Good news as the global commercial aviation market continues its rebound from the COVID-19 crisis, with domestic aircraft usage now above pre-pandemic levels.

We take a look at the data behind the post-COVID resurgence in business aviation and work out whether it's a trend which will continue.

Asia Pacific has taken a little longer to open up compared to other regions of the world, and it results in a very slow and gradual climb from the end of 2021

AWIN data shows that from June 2022, flight hours have been above 80% of their equivalent month in 2019.