Prior to our current situation, the winds of change were blowing across the plains of the aviation industry, as aircraft manufacturers and OEMs experiment with a revolutionary way of producing aircraft parts and components – additive manufacturing. As we prepare for the return of normal airline operations, should we take this as an opportunity to investigation the potential gains of additive manufacturing?

This last decade has hosted a long stretch of uninterrupted growth, but will the aviation MRO forecast for the next decade continue that momentum?

Jumping into 2020, many of the challenges that aftermarket suppliers have faced over the years have either maintained due to lack of resources to address them, or will become exacerbated by the influx of digitalisation demands.

2019 was rounded off with the two big airframe manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, releasing their aviation industry outlooks and forecasts for the coming decades. What do they tell us about 2020 and beyond?

As we embark into the beginnings of a new decade, we sum up eight of the big take-aways and trends predicted to affect the aviation & aircraft aftermarket.

Preparing for the march of digital progress seemed to be at the centre of many topics at MRO Europe 2019. Here is our highlight reel of the top 4 trends and subjects that we encountered.

The projected increase in aircraft retirements has been a frequent topic within the industry this year, and we look into the opportunities and hurdles it will create for the growing USM market.

When speaking at MRO Europe in London, Martin Harrison, the Global Managing Director and Specialist at ICF, stated that the industry’s concern shouldn't be on the usual suspects.

Rarely do we ever get the opportunity to see aviation and art share the same print space anymore.

In recent years, there has been a profound juxtaposition that has been forming within the aviation industry. On the surface, we see the story being shaped, as airlines march in step with the rhythm of digital technology. Robotic assembly, additive manufacturing, blockchain, connectivity, all the tech industry buzzwords are being imagined into the latest fleets of aircraft.