The Boeing 787-8 was the first variant to be designed and introduced into commercial service; it is also the cheapest of the variants, costing 'only' around $248.3 million. It was intended to replace ...

The Airbus A321XLR is currently filling the midsized market, while JetZero is currently working on a revolutionary new design ...

Indeed, being a clean-sheet design as opposed to a modern update of an existing jet, the plane had an extensive development timeline behind it by the time it took to the skies for the first time.

Airways takes a closer look at two advanced engines: the General Electric GEnx-1B and the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000.