Southampton Airport Noise Action Plan 2013 - 2018

whitePaper | June 6, 2022

As AEROSPACE goes to press, the US Congress is set to hold the first open hearing about UFOs in half a century – indicating a shift in official

whitePaper | October 4, 2022

Overall, aircraft maintenance is a high cost activity, in terms of capital equipment, overall spend, and asset downtime. In the aeronautics industry, maintenance activities range from 10% to 20% of an operator’s direct operating costs, depending on the fleet size, age, and usage.

whitePaper | July 26, 2023

Last year, the assembly of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization agreed to set an aspirational goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, reinforcing targets and commitments made already by both industry and individual states for the sector. While net zero provides a common goal for aviation, it comes with a recognition that this sector is likely to be one of the hardest to abate. Most stakeholders agree that meeting this challenge will require a broad approach, encompassing both operational efficiencies and changing the ways we fuel flight.

whitePaper | February 15, 2022

The perspective of a “self-healing” aircraft is still a distant one even if some of the edge research in self-diagnostics and self-repair of complex structures is bringing such aircraft of the future out of the Science Fiction realm and closer to aviation attainable goals. In this context, the first step to ensure the desired technical availability of the aircraft is to set-up an appropriate maintenance activity, which is focused on and supports the airworthiness, technical capability and performance of each aircraft, as demanded by the airline’s operation schedule.

whitePaper | April 12, 2022

As Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine enters its third month the fighting shows no sign of letting up.

whitePaper | March 15, 2023

The ACCC welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the development of a new aviation White Paper. A competitive airline sector is vital to meet the needs of consumers and the economy more broadly, especially for a large country as geographically dispersed as Australia. Rivalry between airlines can deliver more routes, a greater choice of products, cheaper airfares, more reliable services and better customer service. On many of these measures, international air passenger services to and from Australia generally delivered improved outcomes in the years leading up to the pandemic.