London | February 18th 2026 | 21:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) SpaceX now has more than 5,000 aircraft under contract, with recent wins including Southwest, Korean Group, Lufthansa Group, IAG and Emirates. Such is the scale of change that it is easy to conclude the market is reaching maturity and that there may not be…
Upon checking out the footage from the recent demonstration of AutoFlight’s new V5000 Matrix eVTOL, I felt compelled to write something about the noise signature of these aircraft. Why? Well we’re repeatedly told that they’re ostensibly quiet and that this will lead to their proliferation throughout our cities. But is the sound they make a…
London | February 11th 2026 | 16:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) According to a new report by Valour Consultancy, “The Future of In-Flight Connectivity – 2025”, the number of connected commercial aviation aircraft will surpass 21,000 by 2034, with the majority of the global fleet equipped with in-flight connectivity (IFC) by 2030 – heralding a…
What a year it’s been for the In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) market. The extent of SpaceX’s reach across both commercial and business aviation is now there for all to see and it’s clear we’re witnessing a changing of the guard in terms of the largest IFC service providers. Preference amongst airlines has shifted to low latency,…
The 2025 edition of the Dubai Air Show kicked off with a bang, as Emirates announced a fleetwide contract with Starlink, giving the U.S satellite operator another major customer in the region alongside Qatar Airways. This was immediately followed by news that Starlink had secured a 100+ aircraft deal with flydubai. In this article, Valour…
11/26/2025 EHang today released its Q3 2025 results, revealing that it delivered just 41 units of its EH216 series eVTOL – down from 68 in Q2 2025. The figure is also a sharp reduction from the 63 units delivered in Q3 2024, meaning EHang has now produced 120 units across the first three quarters of…
In assembling research for our forthcoming report, “The Future of Advanced Air Mobility”, it became clear that there is a consistent narrative underpinning the public communications of passenger AAM developers like Joby, Archer, Eve, Supernal, and Vertical Aerospace. These companies frequently cite a long-term UN projection that around 68% of the global population will live…
What happens in Vegas… Shouldn’t just stay in Vegas (for the most part)! We visited NBAA-BACE in October to get the latest updates on cabin connectivity in business aviation in preparation for our upcoming report – “The Market for In-Flight Connectivity in Business Aviation 2026”. Below are some of the key headlines that we think…
In June 2023, I published Valour’s first study focussed on The Future of Flat Panel Antennas destined for Comms-On-The-Move (COTM) applications (aviation, land and maritime). One of the primary objectives of the study was to identify which of the many vendors developing electronically steered antennas (ESAs) would go on to succeed. At the time, more…
In last month’s article, which formed Part I of this two-part series, we looked at how China’s various provinces and municipalities are planning for the low-altitude economy by building out many thousands of take-off and landing sites. In this follow-up, we take a virtual tour of the globe, honing in on those cities that have…
Recent years have seen a glut of forecasts rain down upon us heralding the dawn of a new era. An era where the great and the good in all corners of the globe will have regular access to some form of on-demand aerial transportation. Urban air mobility (UAM), a subset of the wider advanced air…
As the race to dominate LEO accelerates, there are several key factors that could determine the future landscape: Network features such as timeliness, performance, capacity and market participation; Geopolitical tensions and availability; Space sustainability; and Funding. The first part to this series outlined geopolitical constraints facing LEO operators, while the second provided a deeper dive…
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