Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Feb 06, 2015
LATAM Airlines Group, parent of TAM and LAN Airlines, has become the first airline company in Latin America to take delivery the Boeing 787-9.
Feb 06, 2015
Both of TransAsia Airways flight GE235’s Pratt & Whitney Canada PW127M engines stopped producing thrust during the brief flight of the ATR 72-600, investigators said.
Feb 06, 2015
Boeing delivered 49 commercial aircraft in January, leading rival Airbus’ 36 deliveries for the month.
Feb 05, 2015
Avianca Holdings, the Latin American airline power that has been studying the Airbus A320neo and Boeing 737 MAX in advance of a much-anticipated large narrowbody order, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airbus to order 100 A320neo family aircraft.
Feb 05, 2015
Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) has ordered Taiwanese airlines TransAsia Airways and Uni Air to ground their ATR 72s and conduct engine inspections on the turboprops following the Feb. 4 crash of a TransAsia ATR 72-600 in Taipei.
Jun 03, 2019
Icelandair will lay off 24 pilots and will not be hiring 21 new pilots, because of the ongoing worldwide grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX.
Jun 03, 2019
Thai Airways’ expanded fleet acquisition plan is progressing toward the final stages of government review before a major aircraft order can be placed, a senior airline executive said.
Jun 03, 2019
The airline industry may have been posting lower profits of late, but the slowdown is still “two to three years into the softest landing I have ever seen in 30 years,” Embraer Commercial Aviation CEO John Slattery said.
Jun 03, 2019
Renaming the Boeing 737 MAX could help restore the public’s trust in the aircraft when the global fleet is flying again, Kenya Airways CEO Sebastian Mikosz said.
Jun 03, 2019
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has teamed up with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to work on a wide-fuselage long-haul concept aircraft, known as the Flying-V, which would carry 314 passengers.
Jun 03, 2019
The de Havilland name has returned to aircraft manufacturing with completion of the $300 million sale of the Dash 8 program by Bombardier to Canada’s Longview Aircraft Capital.
Jun 03, 2019
Operators of more than 300 newer Boeing 737s—including nearly half of the in-service MAXs—will be ordered to inspect slat tracks and remove parts identified as being from a batch that may not meet Boeing’s production requirements, the FAA and the company said June 2.
Jun 03, 2019
Qantas remains on track to place an order by the end of 2019 for an aircraft to launch direct flights from Australia’s east coast to London.