Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 20, 2010
Airbus CEO Tom Enders told a group of journalists including ATWOnline in Hamburg this week that the company expects to deliver 20 A380s while securing orders for "more than 20" this year, including "additional orders from existing customers." He added, "I don't want to make airlines feel like we're putting them under pressure, but more and more it appears that an airline can only compete against an A380 with an A380."
May 20, 2010
American International Group named former Airbus North America President and CEO Henri Courpron to the post of president and CEO of subsidiary ILFC. He succeeds ILFC Vice Chairman Alan Lund, who has served as president and CEO since March.Steven Udvar-Hazy retired from the post in February after he was unable to arrange a purchase of the aircraft leasing giant he founded (ATWOnline, Feb. 8). Courpron will be based in ILFC's Los Angeles headquarters.
May 20, 2010
Lufthansa yesterday took delivery of its first A380-800 in a ceremony at Airbus's Hamburg facility. The Trent 900-powered aircraft is the first of 15 A380s that LH has on order. It expects to receive three more this year and four in 2011.
May 19, 2010
China's new turboprop aircraft,the MA600, an enhanced version of the MA60, received its airworthiness certificate from CAAC yesterday.
May 18, 2010
Copa Airlines took delivery of two new 737-800s as part of its ongoing fleet and network expansion. Copa said including these deliveries, it has received five of the eight aircraft it expects to take in 2010.
Mar 22, 2016
Boeing used to spend 1.5 weeks training new employees, but now it has to spend six weeks—a telling shortfall of the US education system in the digital, globalized business world, but also a poignant example of why some Americans are siding with nativist and protectionist politics in this year’s presidential race, the former head of the OEM said March 22.
Mar 22, 2016
Airline seats have been attracting attention in Washington DC and, as is often the case when airlines and the US Capitol converge, the impetus behind this scrutiny is not positive.
Mar 22, 2016
Articles from the April 2016 issue of ATW
Mar 22, 2016
Investigators examining the cause of the flydubai flight FZ981 are able to read data from the damaged cockpit voice recorder (CVR), Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said on March 21.
Mar 22, 2016
Low-cost carrier (LCC) Norwegian is leasing an additional two new Boeing 787-9s for its growing long-haul operations.
Mar 22, 2016
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines has ordered five Boeing 737-800s, valued at approximately $505 million based on expected list prices at delivery.
Mar 21, 2016
US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Boeing investigators have joined a Russian and United Arab Emirates team at the Rostov-on-Don Airport to establish what caused Flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800, to crash after a second attempt at landing on Runway 22 in the early morning hours of March 19 in low clouds and heavy winds.
Mar 21, 2016
Airbus has completed the first test flight of its first aircraft built in the US, an A321 to be delivered to JetBlue Airways this spring.