Aviation Week Launches Redesigned Website Offering New Community Features, Streamlined Search and Enhanced Navigation

NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Aviation Week has unveiled its redesigned AviationWeek.com and enhanced subscriber-based Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN). These recent changes share the common goal of continuously simplifying and integrating the products and services to meet the changing needs of today's aerospace and defense (A&D) market. 

"AviationWeek.com and AWIN — our premium subscription offering — form the cornerstones of our overall digital strategy," said Anne McMahon, VP Data/Analytics and Marketing, Aviation Week. "Our technology team has been hard at work making back-end and front-end site improvements to provide more interactive content and an improved user experience, and we are very excited to launch them with new features that will serve our customers better and deliver measurable advantages."

In addition to a refreshing new design, AviationWeek.com features include:

• More ways to connect and engage with Aviation Week journalists and A&D professionals around the world
• Simplified, integrated navigation
• New ad units and increased flexibility
• Additional ROI-driven market opportunities

New AWIN updates include:

• New commercial channel homepage with more data and analysis
• Expanded program profiles with deeper linkages to aircraft inventory
• Improved search
• New Executive Quick Views
• Greater user security

AviationWeek.com is the leading website for aerospace and defense professionals with over 500,000 unique visitors and 2.4 million page views per month. The site is a hub for executives, managers, government and military officials, engineers, and other aviation professionals worldwide. Together with Aviation Week's other digital properties, including mobile apps, multimedia and video offerings, and social media channels, AviationWeek.com offers a multitude of ways for A&D industry professionals to stay current and connect with each other.

AWIN offers an extensive platform of news and analysis integrated with multiple databases including a fleet database with 130,000 commercial, military and business aviation aircraft, a contact database of more than 100,000 people at 20,000 industry organizations, a top-program database, daily market briefings and customizable news alerts.

About Aviation Week:
Aviation Week, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries, and includes http://AviationWeek.com, Aviation Week & Space Technology, Defense Technology International, Business & Commercial Aviation, Overhaul & Maintenance, ShowNews, Aviation Daily, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, The Weekly of Business Aviation, Aviation Week Intelligence Network and MRO Links. The group also produces major events around the world.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies:
McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two public companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, an education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts energy information services, Aviation Week, and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2011, the Corporation has approximately 23,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://mcgraw-hill.com.

SOURCE Aviation Week