Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 14, 2009
Airbus COO-Customers John Leahy said this week that the manufacturer may ramp up A320 family aircraft production to 40 per month as early as the end of 2010 or early 2011, a signal that the industry has some confidence in an impending economic recovery.
May 12, 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland's RBS Aviation Capital subsidiary is the customer that canceled its order for 25 787s, Airbus Executive VP-Programs Tom Williams confirmed to ATWOnline in Hamburg. Boeing revealed the cancellation on its Orders and Deliveries website for the week ended May 5 (ATWOnline, May 8). RBS was hit hard by the financial crisis and the UK government has taken a majority stake as part of its bailout effort.
May 12, 2009
Japan Airlines took delivery of a 767-300ER, the 50th 767 it has received from Boeing.
May 12, 2009
KLM appointed Cabot Aviation to remarket 13 737-300s/-400s to be phased out between 2010 and 2012.
May 08, 2009
Source close to the Sukhoi Superjet program questioned an RIA Novosti report that Russia's United Aircraft Corp. plans to reduce its Superjet 100 production to 74 aircraft from the 230 it planned to build by 2012. It still plans to deliver the first SSJ this year to launch customer Aeroflot. The source told ATWOnline that he had received no official word regarding any SSJ production cut, but the Moscow-based news agency said UAC planned to build only 196 commercial aircraft in 2009-12 rather than the 405 approved for production two years ago.
Sep 15, 2015
Alaska Airlines will turn some of its passenger aircraft into full freighters, as part of a larger strategy to retire its aging fleet of Boeing 737-400s.
Sep 15, 2015
Inmarsat has published the results of evaluation trials conducted earlier this year with Australia’s air navigation services provider (ANSP), Airservices Australia, to demonstrate oceanic flight tracking using Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Contract (ADS-C) to meet ICAO’s new global standard of a minimum 15-minute reporting interval from the end of 2016.
Sep 15, 2015
Boeing has begun final assembly on schedule of the first 737 MAX 8 at its Renton, Washington, facility, the US manufacturer said in a statement.
Sep 15, 2015
Embraer has confirmed the 18 E-175s SkyWest Airlines is adding to United Express service are new firm orders
Sep 14, 2015
The R2-D2 All Nippon Airways (ANA) Boeing 787-9 rolled-out from the Boeing Everett Factory for the first time Sept. 14.
Sep 14, 2015
SkyWest Airlines and United Airlines have amended their Capacity Purchase Agreement (CPA) to add 18 Embraer E-175s to SkyWest’s United Express service.
Sep 14, 2015
The Bombardier Q400 has gained Brazilian type certification, enabling the aircraft to operate in the South American nation.