Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Mar 08, 2012
Aeroflot (SU) has taken delivery of its sixth Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) at Komsomolsk-on-the Amur (KXK). The aircraft, painted in the SkyTeam livery, flew from KXK to Moscow March 5. The carrier, which has 30 SSJ100s on order, operates five aircraft on its domestic and international routes.
Mar 07, 2012
Western-built aircraft with more than 100 seats make up 74% of the Russian airline fleet and 28% in the regional fleet.
Mar 07, 2012
LAN Airlines in late 2012 will become the first airline in Latin America to incorporate a Boeing 787 Dreamliner into its fleet.
Mar 06, 2012
Qantas (QF) on Wednesday launched inflight connectivity trials onboard six Airbus A380 aircraft flying to Los Angeles from Sydney and Melbourne. The OnAir connectivity service, using Inmarsat’s SwiftBroadband, will initially be available to customers in the first- and business-class cabins.
Mar 05, 2012
Hainan Airlines (HU) may order Boeing 747-8s aircraft, citing repeated delivery delays of the 787.
Jan 23, 2017
United President Scott Kirby is looking to fulfill the airline’s potential with some major organizational moves.
Jan 20, 2017
Saudi Arabia’s national carrier Saudia will take delivery of 30 aircraft this year, according to a Jan. 17 statement.
Jan 20, 2017
The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Jan. 20 to hold an election to unionize more than 2,850 production employees at Boeing’s South Carolina facility in North Charleston.
Jan 20, 2017
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is expected to announce a further delay to the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program on Jan. 23.
Jan 19, 2017
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) has scheduled the inaugural flight of its newest Star Wars-themed aircraft—a Boeing 777-200 featuring C-3PO—on Tokyo Haneda-Kagoshima service March 21.
Jan 19, 2017
Avian Líneas Aéreas, the new subsidiary of South America’s Synergy Aerospace, has taken delivery of the first ATR 72-600 to fly in Argentina.
Jan 19, 2017
Russia’s S7 Airlines will start Embraer E170LR operations from April 1 with services from Novosibirsk to Surgut, Gorno-Altaisk, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk and Novy Urengoy.
Jan 19, 2017
South African regional airline Airlink will acquire three Embraer E170s and two E190s from Embraer subsidiary ECC Leasing, as part of a wider plan to take 13 E-Jets in total.