Daily Digest

Hailed as the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, Virgin Galactic’s Unity flight sets the scene for the long-anticipated beginning of commercial space flights in 2019.

From business-jet-based airborne early warning, the F-35’s combat debut and Boeing’s bounceback, to another chance for Airbus to enter the U.S. aerial refueling market, we look at key events in military aviation in 2018.

View a sampling of aircraft operated by industry-changing low-cost carriers and ultra low-cost carriers and traditional airlines.

 A wide range of technical, operational and other challenges must be overcome before urban air mobility can become reality.

Despite economic stagnation and a weak ruble, Russia is continuing its rearmament programs.

The Latin American air transport industry continues to face unresolved deeper structural issues, the most important being the serious inadequacy of airport capacity.

Physical scale is old news. Creating physical scale by combining facilities and operations through M&A has delivered benefits.