Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jan 10, 2012
Air France KLM Group has finalized an order for 25 Boeing 787-9s, with options. The order, which was signed in late December, was previously attributed to an unidentified customer on Boeing’s orders and deliveries website.
Jan 09, 2012
KfW IPEX-Bank has been mandated by Air Lease Corp. as arranger and sole lender for a seven-year commercial debt financing of one new Airbus A330-200 leased to Vietnam Airlines. The transaction closed Dec. 22.
Jan 09, 2012
Spirit AeroSystems has delivered its first composite center fuselage section for the Airbus A350 XWB. The upper and forward lower shell composite fuselage panels were joined in Spirit's Saint-Nazaire, France, facility before being delivered to Airbus. Spirit won a contract with Airbus in May 2008 to design and produce Section 15 of the A350 XWB's composite fuselage. The first center-fuselage panels were shipped from Spirit's North Carolina facility to Spirit's Saint-Nazaire facility in October.
Jan 09, 2012
Hainan Airlines’ subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines (HX) has placed a firm order for 10 A380s, according to widely published reports. According to Bloomberg, the order is valued at about $3.8 billion at list prices. The Hong Kong-based carrier will reportedly receive the first A380 in 2015. An Airbus spokesperson told ATW the manufacturer will not comment on the order before its annual press conference Jan. 17.
Jan 06, 2012
Taipei-based TransAsia Airways is considering an order for more than two Airbus A380s to facilitate its international expansion to the US over the next few years.
Dec 23, 2016
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines will expand European services with 46 additional frequencies in the 2017 summer flight schedule, effective March 26, 2017, using five wet-leased airberlin Airbus A320s.
Dec 23, 2016
UK leisure airline Jet2 has ordered four additional Boeing 737-800NGs. The expanding carrier—which is based in the north of England but recently expanded its bases to increase London Stansted—already has 30 737-800s on order, eight of which have been delivered in 2016.
Dec 23, 2016
As the region’s oil-driven economies struggle, Middle Eastern airlines seek ways to adapt to declining premium traffic, while growth continues overall.
Dec 23, 2016
New routes, partnerships and investments expected to boost Latin American and Caribbean air travel markets
Dec 23, 2016
Another high-tempo year beckons for engine makers as commercial production soars, new engines enter flight test and new military powerplants begin ground tests.
Dec 23, 2016
NASA’s unique facility is the first designed to test high-power, flight-weight electric propulsion systems for future single-aisle airliners at full scale, on the ground, before moving to flight testing.
Dec 23, 2016
The U.S. airline sector has pretty much totally rebounded from the slump of the early years of this century. All sectors seem to be on even keel or thriving.
Dec 23, 2016
Test results mark an early step on the path to a new generation of highly efficient airliners designed to take advantage of boundary layer ingestion.