Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Feb 24, 2015
US Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) president and CEO Marion Blakey has been appointed president and CEO of Rolls-Royce North America starting in May.
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.
Jun 13, 2019
Intro Aviation, the new majority shareholder of French long-haul airline Corsair, plans to operate up to 15 Airbus A330 classics/A330neos and add new routes to North America.
Jun 13, 2019
Southwest Airlines, citing uncertainty around when the Boeing 737 MAX will be cleared to resume revenue flying, has pulled its 34 737-8s from its schedule through Sept. 2.
Jun 13, 2019
On the eve of this year’s Paris Air Show Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) senior leadership is downplaying the likelihood of major orders or product announcements while the company remains laser focused on lifting the 737 MAX grounding.
Jun 13, 2019
Asiana Airlines intends to add 34 new aircraft to its fleet over the next four years as it phases out many of its oldest models.
Jun 13, 2019
GE Aviation completed flight tests of the GE9X on its Boeing 747-400 flying testbed in early May meeting or exceeding performance goals.
Jun 13, 2019
Russia’s deteriorated relations with the West following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 has had substantial consequences for the Irkut MC-21 program.
Jun 13, 2019
As part of a major shake-up of its regional jet strategy, Mitsubishi Aircraft has rebranded the former MRJ90 as the SpaceJet M90 and has announced details of the stretched MRJ70 redesign, which will now be called the M100.
Jun 12, 2019
CFM International is redesigning the bearing in the radial drive shaft of the LEAP-1B that powers the Boeing 737 MAX after five incidents in which an engine was shut down in-flight because an oil filter bypass warning light indicated in the cockpit.