Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 30, 2016
Aircraft & Engine News-March 30, 2016
Mar 30, 2016
UK startup Straightline Aviation (SLA) has placed a letter of intent for up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships. The deal, the first for the new airship, is potentially worth up to $480 million.
Mar 30, 2016
Latin America will need 2,540 new passenger and freighter aircraft between 2015 and 2034 to meet long-term growth in the region, Airbus predicts in its latest Global Market Forecast (GMF).
Mar 30, 2016
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft celebrated with Ryukyu Air Commuter (RAC) of Okinawa, Japan as the airline unveiled two of its Q400 Cargo-Combi aircraft during a ceremony held at the Japan Transocean Air Maintenance Center at Naha Airport, Okinawa. RAC, the launch customer of the Q400 Cargo-Combi aircraft, is a member of Japan Airlines Group (JAL) and the Q400 aircraft unveiled are the first two of five ordered by the airline in the cargo-passenger combi configuration.
Mar 30, 2016
Boeing has forecast that Latin American airlines will need 3,050 new aircraft valued at $350 billion in the next two decades, tripling the region’s current fleet size.
Jul 15, 2020
Regulators have banned the use of Dupont’s Kathon FP 1.5 biocide in Boeing 737 MAXs, the first of what is likely to be a series of mandates to protect fuel systems from in-service incidents linked to the anti-microbial fuel system additive.
Jul 15, 2020
Swiss regional carrier Helvetic Airways has signed a commitment with Embraer to convert four of its remaining firm E190-E2 orders to the larger E195-E2 variant.
Jul 15, 2020
Airlines are considering the flexibility of introducing a new fleet of smaller regional aircraft as they juggle diminishing passenger demand, cost per seat and falling capacity, Embraer VP of Asia-Pacific Cesar Pereira has said.
Jul 15, 2020
Facing a $475 billion loss in commercial aviation manufacturing, the A&D industrial base could suffer aftershocks for years.
Jul 15, 2020
In a move to promote tourism spending in Bali, Garuda Indonesia is exploring new long-haul flights from the resort island to Europe, India and the U.S. even though the routes would be unprofitable ones.
Jul 14, 2020
A group of 62 environmental organizations have called on the FAA to abandon plans to establish takeoff and landing noise standards for civil supersonic aircraft, arguing that enabling the revival of high-speed air travel would fuel the global climate crisis.
Jul 14, 2020
Guillaume Faury is optimistic about a market recovery, but pace and timing are among many aspects impossible to predict.
Jul 13, 2020
ANA Holdings, parent company of All Nippon Airways, is cooperating with Japanese startup Aeronext on the development of delivery drones with the goal of beginning commercial operations in 2022-23.