Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 17, 2014
Irish lessor Avolon has finalized an order for six Boeing 787-9s and five 737 MAX 9s, valued at more than $2.1 billion at list prices.
Sep 16, 2014
Bombardier has resumed flight tests of the CSeries airliner after a hiatus of more than 100 days following an engine failure during ground testing, but an analyst is warning the company may be forced to push back the already-delayed entry into service.
Sep 16, 2014
Florida-based Spirit Airlines has unveiled a new livery that it said “matches the bright and bold branding the company announced in May.”
Sep 12, 2014
Air New Zealand plans to boost its service on North American routes next year, using aircraft capacity freed up by Boeing 787 deliveries.
Sep 11, 2014
Nairobi-based Kenya Airways (KQ) has expanded its Boeing 787 network to include a series of Far East destinations and is continuing to move its flights to Nairobi’s new Terminal 1A.
Jan 22, 2019
Initial European studies of distributed hybrid-electric propulsion underscores the challenges to making the technology feasible for large passenger aircraft.
Jan 21, 2019
Deals by Airbus and Boeing to take over the former CSeries and Embraer’s commercial aircraft business are giving the A220 and E2 new credibility, but the models are still not hitting the core of the narrowbody market, AerCap CEO Aengus Kelly said.
Jan 21, 2019
The proposed Airbus A321XLR “will go well beyond the capabilities Airbus imagined for the A320”, according to Air Lease Corp. (ALC) chairman Steve Udvar-Hazy.
Jan 21, 2019
Irish lessor SMBC Aviation Capital has switched 15 Airbus A320neos from an existing order to the larger A321neo, as well as announcing a firm follow-on order for 50 A320neos and 15 A321neos with a list-price value of $7.4 billion.
Jan 18, 2019
Canadian LCC WestJet has taken delivery of its first of 10 Boeing 787-9s to serve new international routes.
Jan 18, 2019
Philippine LCC Cebu Pacific is expected to receive its first Airbus A321neo soon, and under a revised delivery timetable another five are scheduled to arrive this year.
Jan 17, 2019
Boom’s Overture supersonic airliner will be as quiet on takeoff and landing as subsonic aircraft flying similar routes today, the startup said, providing more insight into its efforts to reconcile the high- and low-speed requirements for its Mach 2.2 commercial aircraft.
Jan 17, 2019
Airbus Commercial Aircraft president Guillaume Faury sees the A320 and A220 to be ideally placed to “evolve in parallel” and anticipates making further decisions on how later this year.