Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 28, 2013
Danish lessor Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) has signed a firm purchase agreement for four Bombardier Q400 NextGens to be placed with Latvian carrier airBaltic.
Mar 28, 2013
Air Berlin and its major shareholder, Etihad Airways, are in talks with Boeing to switch its 787-8 order to the bigger -9 version, CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told ATW onboard Air Berlin’s first flight from Berlin to Chicago O’Hare
Mar 27, 2013
Lao Central Airlines and Indonesia’s Sky Aviation announced their first Sukhoi Superjet 100s (SSJ100s) have launched their first flights.
Mar 27, 2013
The first Yakutia Airlines’ SSJ100 has arrived at Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co.’s testing complex in Zhukovskiy for modification.
Mar 26, 2013
Airbus has installed its two flight-ready Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines on the first flight-test A350 XWB (MSN001).
Sep 18, 2017
The French engine-maker says turbofan improvements will continue while parallel studies of hybrid and all-electric propulsion studies ramp up.
Sep 15, 2017
American Airlines’ order for 22 Airbus A350-900s is too small to make sense for the Dallas/Fort Worth-based carrier, American’s top two executives said.
Sep 15, 2017
Boeing has confirmed it will step up production of the 787 to 14 per month in 2019, as it trusts both its existing backlog as well as forecasts of a coming wave in widebody orders toward the end of the decade.
Sep 15, 2017
The Canadian and UK governments have stepped up pressure on Boeing, but the U.S. manufacturer is not backing down from its trade dispute with Bombardier over the price of C Series airliners sold to Delta Air Lines.
Sep 14, 2017
Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer is planning to become the market leader in aircraft under 150 seats and is consulting with airlines about a new turboprop family.
Sep 14, 2017
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Austrian Airlines is wet leasing two Bombardier CRJ900s from Slovenia-based Adria Airways for short-haul routes on the Austrian network.
Sep 14, 2017
Bombardier continues to project strong growth in the large regional jet and small single-aisle airliner markets despite a slight decline in its 20-year commercial-aircraft forecast as a result of expected slower economic growth in China.
Sep 14, 2017
Chinese carriers introduced 51 aircraft in August, expanding the fleet of domestic airlines to 3,131 aircraft, according to the China’s Civil Aviation Data Analysis Co.