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This month's most read air transport content
 
 
Guy Norris

Boeing is taking the first tentative steps towards an all-new airliner designed to compete with the Airbus A321XLR and, despite the current cost and market headwinds, has begun sounding out suppliers for provisional requests for information.
 
With it being said that the number of 2021 airline startups could surpass that of 2020 failures due to the favorable conditions that could support low-cost bases, we take a look at some of the new airline startups around the world.
 
Jens Flottau

Around a decade after preparing to divest its aerostructures businesses, Airbus is now reversing course and wants to keep component manufacturing inside the group for the long term.
 
Sean Broderick

Ask The Editors: Regulators working on the 737 MAX were not buoyed by the pandemic, but COVID-19 was not a major factor on downtime.
 
Karen Walker

It used to be that when someone said they were afraid to fly, what they really meant was they were afraid of crashing.
 
Guy Norris

NASA is transitioning long-running hypersonic technology studies increasingly toward potential commercial applications and has awarded two new contracts supporting high speed design and propulsion work to Aerion Supersonic and GE Aviation respectively.
 
As Europe clears the MAX's return, 777X and 787 woes cap a horrible year and record loss for Boeing. Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss.
 
Victoria Moores

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is hoping to revisit ultra-long-haul operation “Project Sunrise” later in 2021, for a possible launch from 2024, which could coincide with the Australian carrier’s Airbus A380s emerging from storage.
 
Guy Norris

Almost exactly seven years after announcing plans to develop a completely new gear-driven commercial engine family, Rolls-Royce is bringing together the major components for the first UltraFan demonstrator.
 
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a tale of two air transport industries: a passenger business that has nearly collapsed—with years expected before a full recovery occurs—and a cargo business that has demonstrated exceptional resiliency and is expected to post double-digit year-over-year percentage traffic growth in 2021.
 
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