Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jun 24, 2008
FedEx Express received a US FAA supplemental type certificate for a new avionics system that combines Honeywell's Head Up Display and Elbit Systems of America's infrared Enhanced Flight Vision System and plans to install it on its MD-10 freighters.
Jun 24, 2008
Midwest Airlines is grounding its 12 MD-80s "sometime near fall" as part of a restructuring effort, a spokesperson confirmed yesterday to ATWOnline.
Jun 24, 2008
Bombardier yesterday announced the sale of four CRJ700 NextGens plus four options to an unidentified carrier and an order for three Q400s from ANA. The firm CRJ order is worth $146 million at list prices. The ANA deal represents the conversion of three previously held options and is valued at $80 million. Delivery will begin in 2010. The carrier said it will sell one of its current 14 Q400s and replace its F50s.
Jun 24, 2008
Northwest Airlines President and CEO Doug Steenland testified before a US House of Representatives subcommittee yesterday that US airlines are expected to spend $61.2 billion on jet fuel in 2008, $20 billion more than in 2007, and are projected to incur losses totaling close to $10 billion for the year. "If the current pricing dynamic does not change, our industry will be severely challenged and will continue shrinking," he said. "It is as simple and stark as that. .
Jun 24, 2008
Focus Aviation reached agreement with KLM to provide marketing services for the sale of 15 F100s. Manufactured in 1989, aircraft are operated by KLM Cityhopper.
Feb 24, 2015
SunExpress, a joint venture of Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, will add five Boeing 737-800s to its fleet this year, from an order for 25 of the type and up to 25 737 MAX 8s placed in February 2014. Deliveries are scheduled through 2021.
Feb 23, 2015
Trans States Holdings, parent of US regionals Trans States Airlines, Compass Airlines and GoJet Airlines, remains “comfortable” with its order for 50 Mitsubishi Regional Jets and expects to begin taking delivery of the aircraft in 2017.
Feb 23, 2015
Construction on the Airbus Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Mobile, Alabama is moving forward and is on track to deliver its first A321 aircraft to JetBlue Airways in “late spring-early summer 2016,” an Airbus spokesperson at Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport told ATW.
Feb 23, 2015
Las Vegas, Nevada-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of “ultra” low-cost carrier Allegiant Air, has agreed to purchase six additional Airbus A319 aircraft, as part of a plan to increase its A320 family fleet from 14 to 44 by the end of 2018.
Feb 23, 2015
Transport Canada has issued a flight permit for the first Bombardier CS300 flight test vehicle (FTV) to join the CSeries flight test program.
Feb 20, 2015
Moroccan national carrier Royal Air Maroc will launch Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner service from Casablanca-New York JFK on Feb. 22.
Feb 20, 2015
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines, which is in the final stages of replacing its aging Fokker 70/100 fleet, is considering transferring 16 Embraer E-195s from Lufthansa CityLine to Austrian Airlines.
Feb 20, 2015
New Nepalese airline Bishwo Airways has announced a tentative agreement with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. for five Sukhoi Superjet 100s.