Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Dec 11, 2019
Air France-KLM has placed a firm order for 10 additional Airbus A350-900s, which will replace the A380s scheduled to leave the fleet by 2022.
Dec 11, 2019
Vietnam startup Bamboo Airways has received its first Boeing 787-9 at the US manufacturer’s South Carolina delivery center Dec. 9.
Dec 10, 2019
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has transferred the fifth prototype in the C919 narrowbody flight-test program to Nanchang, China, six weeks after the aircraft’s first flight.
Dec 10, 2019
Congo Airways signed a firm order with Embraer for two E175 aircraft, with purchase rights for a further two. The deal has a total value of $94.4 million at current list prices with all purchase rights exercised.
Dec 09, 2019
Chile-based SKY Airline has signed a purchase agreement with Airbus for 10 A321XLRs, confirming the LCC was behind the undisclosed Sept. 30 order for 10 of the new-generation narrowbodies.
Sep 26, 2023
Aviation Week has seen a letter from Russia’s federal air transport agency sent to its territorial branches and air operators stating the cause of the failure.
Sep 26, 2023
Airbus is carving out its commercial aircraft business as a separate entity and has named sales chief Christian Scherer as the new unit’s CEO.
Sep 26, 2023
VoltAero's Cassio 330 features a 330 kW electric-parallel hybrid propulsion system built around a Kawasaki piston engine, with an electric motor from Safran.
Sep 26, 2023
China’s decades as aviation’s fastest growth country is over for now, and it will take years for aircraft deliveries to return to previous levels.
Sep 25, 2023
An interdisciplinary group of industry and academia have formed the Zero Impact Aviation Alliance (ZIAA) to move the needle on sustainable aviation goals.
Sep 25, 2023
Pratt’s latest figures have about 140 engines coming off wing by October, followed by 600 or so in the next 6-7 months.
Sep 25, 2023
While Canada’s largest airline ordered two 777Fs in August 2022 as it expanded its cargo business during and after the pandemic, the cargo market has cooled.
Sep 25, 2023
Energy is Safran’s main consideration for the new plant, with CEO Olivier Andries saying, “we want competitive, decarbonized energy under a long-term contract."