Paul Sillers

Things are hotting up in the world of aeronautical academia – and Cranfield University leads the way.

It’s a question flight attendants often face. But airlines are finding clever solutions to help crew tiptoe around one of the job’s more awkward predicaments.

Worldwide airborne travel, measured by the total number of kilometres travelled by paying passengers, grew 7.4 per cent last year. That was well above the past decade’s average annual growth of 5.5 per cent, according to Iata, the global industry trade body. Data from Iata also show more than 3.5bn passenger journeys were flown in 2015. The number is expected to exceed 7bn in 20 years.

Europe’s aero industries have been working collaboratively to tackle the environmental impact of aviation with much success, but will the UK’s decision to fly solo cloud the skyscape?

A battle of acronyms linked to developing technologies will be taking place in skies above Hampshire this week as the Farnborough International Airshow gets under way. UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), AR (augmented reality) and ALM (additive layer manufacturing, or 3D printing) are three of the many technologies on display at the biennial aeronautical show.

Boeing celebrates its centenary and continues its journey into the next 100 years with an interactive event called Above and Beyond, coming to Farnborough International Airshow this month.

Paul Sillers contributed commentary to this article on what the ultimate branded airport of the future might look like.

Lighting, touchless tech and novel approaches to hygiene are freshening up the airline onboard lavatory experience.

Great ideas for the future of flight need financial sustenance if they’re to reach their full potential. The Safran contra-rotative open rotor engine and the European initiative behind it.

A new airline launching a direct route not served by any other airline out of London is pretty newsworthy stuff. But multiply that by a factor of two, sprinkle in a crowdfunded launch proposition and a generous dose of philanthropy – and you have "POP", a new low-cost airline that plans to rev up its engines for flights out of Stansted before the end of the year.

Air travel retail is shifting dramatically towards aspirational, personalised and service-oriented propositions…

Dodging the constraints of airline schedules and networks, and bypassing laborious procedures at big airports is the raison d’être of corporate aviation.