It’s actually not what you think. Airbus Group the Aircraft maker is in extensive talks with some very prominent companies in India such as Bharat Forge and Mahinda & Mahindra to have their parts forged. This move is an attempt to expand its supplier base and increase its outsourcing activity in India. Airbus has stated that this move is just the first of many stages of integration and that India should be immersed at all levels of the manufacturing process. The Economic Times reports that Airbus Group’s sourcing from India is expected to reach 2 billion or Rs 12,600 crore within the next five years and those are more conservative estimates.

Panasonic Avionics was chosen by the Boeing Company to supply Cabin Service Systems for the Boeing 777x aircraft. Also Panasonic is currently the supplier for all of Boeings 787 dreamliners and 747-8 international aircrafts. The Panasonic Ethernet based product is very detailed and provides core cabin functions which include the environmental controls, passengers address and a cabin inter-phone.

Regular maintenance is taking place on all PV2 aircrafts after Neptune Aviation Services temporarily moved all flight, pilot and maintenance crews to Alamogordo-White Sands Regional Airport from their home base in Missoula, Montana in anticipation of a training schedule that is expected to last up to a couple of weeks. The U.S. Forest Service regularly teams up with aerial firefighting company Neptune Aviation to fight forest and wildfires on a national level.

Although the Middle East is currently in the midst of an economic slowdown due to lower oil prices, business jets are still receiving high levels of interest.   French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation is a key example of continued growth in the region, and they were one of them largest attendees at the recent Abu Dhabi Air Expo. The company reported that they have continued to receive orders for many of their aircraft lines, and interest has been especially strong for their 7X business jet. Nearly of 300 Falcon 7X aircraft have been produced in the last decade alone.

Airlines in the United States saw record breaking numbers in 2015 for passenger traffic, setting new marks across the board.
Last year, all the nation’s airlines combined carried a total of 798.4 million passengers. That’s the equivalent of every single citizen in the United States flying more than twice, on average. Paying passengers traveled a combined 902.4 billion miles. To put that number into perspective, the distance between the Sun and Pluto is 3.67 billion miles. Unfortunately, this number does not include unknown stowaways hiding in the wheel wells. Planes were as full as they have ever been, with the average capacity at 83.8% percent.

Airbus has delivered its first A250-900 to National Carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA)from their Delivery Centre in Toulouse on Wednesday. Among the highlighted features of the new A350-900 are the improvements to the traveling experience regarding larger windows and raised ceilings and reduced jet lag due lighting upgrades along with an extra wide body for more creature comforts.

Austrian based aviation company Diamond Aircraft has recently acquired an FAA certification to fly its DA62 twin-piston in the United States, and this new approval comes just months after the DA62 was also cleared to fly in European markets. Diamond has been hard at work attempting to access additional foreign markets for nearly four years, and these latest developments will likely spur an upswing business development.

Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, the business jet aircraft manufacturer which is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics, has recently announced that their fourth Gulfstream G500 test aircraft (referred to as T4) has officially joined the G500 test-flight program and has completed its initial flight. Gulfstream’s G500 test aircraft took off at 9:47 a.m. on Saturday, February 20, 2016 at the Savannah-Hilton Head International Airport. The aircraft was piloted by Brian Dickerson and Eric Holmberg, while flight test engineers, Mark Mondt and Dominic Pompeo, provided on-board data and test analysis.

Qatar Airways used Pratt & Whitney engines for their Airbus fleet however Qatar Airways mentioned that they were experiencing a high number of engine related problems. This is not the only case that Pratt & Whitney has been dealing with. Gulf airline also ordered over 45 Airbus aircrafts. These Airbus aircrafts are the A430neo with the Pratt & Whitney engine which was supposed be expecting to be delivered near the end of the year however, Gulf airline rejected these aircrafts once they got word about the engine problems. Instead, the first of these jets was handed over to Lufthansa last month.

Pratt & Whitney have announced that they will be using a Singapore Airshow to demonstrate its commitment to using Singapore as the base for future manufacturing works. The company plans to build the fan blades and turbine disks for their GTF (geared-turbine fan) engine with the first fan blade having been manufactured and assembled right there in Singapore earlier in the fiscal year.