CommercialSouthwest Sees Big 2015 Profits from Fleet Modernization, Lower Fuel Prices Southwest Airlines has seen record profits as a result of lower fuel prices and fleet modernization efforts. Photo: Southwest [Avionics Today 01-21-2016] Southwest Airlines has reported a yearly annual net income of…
CommercialAirbus Delivers First A320neo to Lufthansa The Lufthansa Group, Airbus’ largest airline customer and operator, marked a major step in aviation history by taking delivery of the first A320neo on 20 January 2016. Left to right: Robert Leduc,…
Business & GACMU, Sikorsky Demonstrate UAV, UGV Collaboration The Sikorsky Autonomy Research Aircraft equipped with Matrix technology. Photo: Sikorsky [Avionics Today 01-20-2016] Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Sikorsky have completed a joint autonomy demonstration that proved the capability of new,…
CommercialLufthansa Tecknik Inks MRO Contact with Philippine Airlines [Avionics Today 01-20-2016] Philippine Airlines and Lufthansa Technik have signed a five-year Total Component Maintenance (TCM) contract for the airline's Airbus A320 and A340 fleet. The services will be extended at the…
CommercialDelta Reinvests Record Profits into Fleet Delta fleet. Photo: Wikimedia [Avionics Today 01-20-2016] Delta Air Lines reported a profitable quarter buoyed by dropping oil prices, including net income of $926 million, up 51 percent from the December quarter…
Embedded AvionicsFACE Avionics Software Reuse Expands With NAVAIR [Avionics Today 01-20-2016] The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) is continuing to expand the integration of the Future Air Capability Environment (FACE) avionics standard across its aircraft system. Most recently, Rockwell…
ATM ModernizationEurocontrol Moves NewPENS Forward to Enable Data Driven ATM Participants at the NewPENS meeting. Photo: Eurocontrol [Avionics Today 01-19-2016] Eurocontrol is moving forward with its implementation of NewPENS, which will build on the success of the current Pan-European Network Services (PENS)…
ATM ModernizationST Engineering Aerospace Arm Inks $415 million in Contracts Photo: ST Engineering Aerospace [Avionics Today 01-19-2016] Singapore Technologies Engineering (ST Engineering) aerospace arm has secured new contracts worth $415 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, for projects ranging from airframe…