Airbus and Boeing left the Paris Airshow with plans for ambitious growth in aviation services, as flattening demand for new jets and pressure to raise profit margins encourages planemakers to deepen their exposure to airline operations. The two largest planemakers set out their stalls at the air show in a series of announcements that could set them in competition with some of their suppliers and even some of the airlines that have ordered jets in recent years. The overlap reflects the complexity of the aviation market as it matures, leaving a large fleet of aircraft to service or upgrade and tens of thousands of people to train - all services that could in turn become tools to help sell even more jets. <br/>
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Embraer predicts 6,400 new 70- to 130-seat commercial jets will be delivered worldwide by 2036, valued at US$300b according to the manufacturer’s new 2017 Market Outlook report. The overall number of projected deliveries shows a moderate uptick of 50 to-be-delivered jets from last year’s 20-year market forecast. The company said 63% of the new deliveries will support market growth while the remaining 37% will replace aging aircraft that will be retiring by 2036. By seating segments, Embraer predicts the 90 to 130+ seat segment will see the largest growth over the next 20 years, growing by 4,120 jets. Embraer foresees the 70 to 90-seat segment will grow by 2,280 jets by 2036. By region, Embraer projects North America will take the largest share (32%) of the 70-130+ seat jet aircraft market, with 2,020 deliveries by 2036. <br/>
Honeywell Aerospace said airline passengers would rather have an internet connection than food on-board a flight, which is indicative of how much people now rely on their electronic devices in everyday life. “We asked passengers what they would trade off and whether they would trade a meal for connectivity,” Honeywell Aerospace VP Kristin Slyker said. “A large percentage of passengers chose Wi-Fi over an inflight meal.” Another measure of how keen people are to keep their inflight connectivity has been seen since the US and UK imposed a ban on large personal electronic devices (PEDs) on flights from certain Middle East airports. Honeywell has seen evidence that people flying from parts of Asia were connecting through India—rather than the affected Middle East hubs—in order to keep their PEDs with them. <br/>
The TSA is reportedly testing new safety procedures that require airline passengers to remove books from their carry-on bags when going through security lines, raising privacy concerns. The TSA began testing the new security requirement for books and other paper products at airports in Missouri and California earlier this month. The new screening process requires passengers to remove all reading material and food from their carry-ons and place them in a bin. Travellers already have to remove laptops from carry-on bags and place them in a separate bin. The new policy would let TSA employees flip through books to see if anything is hidden in their pages. Department of Homeland Security secretary John Kelly said that the department would “likely” expand the new carry-on policy nationwide. <br/>
Airways is worried about the threat of a cyber-attack on the air traffic control system and is searching around the world for ways to prevent it. As the enterprise moves towards more automated towers, its chief technology officer is overseas looking for ways of preventing its system being hacked. Any such hack could have catastrophic consequences. Head of strategy at Airways New Zealand, Trent Fulcher, said there had been increased focus on cyber security since the "WannaCry" ransomware attack that spread to more than 150 countries in May and dealt a crippling blow to Britain's national health system. "It's absolutely front and centre from our board down to management - how we make our business more resilient to those kind of attacks," he said. <br/>