The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced full-year global passenger traffic results for 2016 showing demand (revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 6.3% compared to 2015 (or 6.0% if adjusted for the leap year).
Five teams are still in the running for being the first private company to launch a spacecraft destined for the moon by the end of 2017. These teams have verified launch contracts and are moving forward to the final phase of the competition.
This year air transport is expected to grow to $769 billion, according to forecasts made by IATA. Airline CFOs and heads of cargo reported in October last year that they were still positive about future growth in air travel, and were a bit more positive about cargo.
The FAA announced that U.S. airlines would no longer be required to make a pre-boarding announcement to passengers that the Samsung Galaxy Note7 phone is prohibited from transport on aircraft.
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced the delivery of the first CS300 aircraft to launch operator Air Baltic Corporation AS, the flag carrier of Latvia.
With a few months of speculations and rumors behind, NASA’s paper on the Electromagnetic Drive, or EmDrive, has finally been peer-reviewed and published.
Bombardier Business Aircraft announced that its Global 7000 aircraft program completed the successful maiden flight of its first flight test vehicle.
Airbus has tested on an A330 development aircraft its new standard High-Bandwidth Connectivity (HBC) on-board architecture.
Astronauts are up to 2 inches taller while they’re in space, most of it due to how microgravity affects our bodies. However, among many space-related health changes, crewmembers frequently report back pain while in orbit and when they return to Earth.
A milestone agreement to control CO2 emissions has been reached among 191 countries participating at the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) 39th Assembly, in Montreal.