Aviation is preparing to handle twice as many passengers within a generation without doubling the number of airports, aircraft or border staff, according to SITA’s Impact Report 2025, which highlights technology as the key enabler of future growth. With the industry expected to carry eight billion passengers a year within the next 20 to 25 […]
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Pratt & Whitney‘s F119 engine has surpassed one million flight hours powering the US Air Force’s Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, marking a major milestone for the first operational fifth-generation fighter engine. In service for more than 20 years, the F119 provides the F-22 with advanced stealth, thrust-vectoring and supercruise capability, enabling the aircraft to fly
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SIA Engineering Company (SIAEC) and Air India have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to explore opportunities to expand their maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) partnership and support India’s ambition to become a global aviation MRO hub. The MoU builds on the companies’ existing collaboration, including a 12-year Inventory Technical Management agreement signed in
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Edgewing has secured a £4.6 billion (YS$6.2billion) contract to deliver the next phase of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), the trilateral initiative between Italy, Japan and the UK to develop a next-generation fighter aircraft. Awarded by the GCAP Agency, which manages the programme on behalf of the three governments, the 18-month contract will complete
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Daher Aircraft has opened a new spare parts, maintenance, equipment overhaul and logistics centre in western France, significantly expanding its support capabilities for a wide range of aircraft, from helicopters and training aircraft to legacy general aviation types produced by its predecessor companies. The purpose-built 6,000 m ² facility at Jonzac-Neulles Airport (LFCJ) in the
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