Tim Hepher

Europe's largest aerial emergency services firm Avincis is warning Europe is ​not ready for longer and more extreme wildfire seasons, with the company's chief executive telling Reuters that its firefighting ‌aircraft are now needed almost year-round.

GE Aerospace has ​carried out the world’s first high-altitude flight assisted by hybrid-electric propulsion, it said on Monday, ‌part of an arsenal of technologies for future jet engines being showcased at this year’s Farnborough Airshow.

Airbus is on track ​towards its full-year target ‌of 870 deliveries after a 15% increase in ​the first half ​of the year as ⁠engine supplies stabilised, ​CEO Guillaume Faury told ​CNBC TV.

Jet engine ‌maker CFM said on Saturday it was investing $2 billion over five years to help meet targets of faster maintenance times, part of efforts to ease engine-industry bottlenecks that have drawn fire from airlines.

Airbus and Boeing have in recent weeks chartered one of the world's largest cargo planes to speed up shipments of ‌aerostructures for some civil and military aircraft, a sign of lingering strains in the aerospace supply chain.

Airbus on ​Wednesday revised down its 20-year industry-wide forecast for passenger aircraft demand by 1% after the Iran war and trade tensions slammed ‌the brakes on what had been a sharp rebound in airline activity since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dassault Aviation's CEO said on Wednesday that Airbus had tried to ​kick it out of the multinational Eurodrone ‌project, confirming a separate rift between the planemakers in addition to the breakdown of plans ​for a European fighter jet.

China Eastern Airlines ‌said on Friday it plans to buy 25 A330neo jets from Airbus for a catalogue price of about $9.35 billion, as the Chinese carrier expands its widebody fleet to serve more international routes.

Qantas Airways is betting that science can make the world's longest flights feel less punishing - unveiling plans for a "wellness zone," extra legroom, specially timed meals and animated lighting ​on its non-stop Sydney-London services due to launch next October.

Qantas Airways is set on Wednesday to unveil ​the first destination for the world's longest non-stop flights from eastern Australia to London or New York, tackling one of ‌the few unbroken barriers of air travel after years of delays.