Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jun 09, 2011
Airbus said the first A380 for Malaysia Airlines entered the final assembly line in Toulouse for the final production phase. MAS has six A380s on order and originally was supposed to receive its first in May 2008 (ATW Daily News, June 22, 2010). Deliveries are now scheduled to begin in 2012.
Jun 09, 2011
S7 Airlines, which once planned to operate 15 Boeing 787s before canceling its Dreamliner order, is now firmly focused on building a narrowbody-centric fleet, according to CEO Vladislav Filev.
Jun 08, 2011
Bombardier Aerospace announced Tuesday that an unidentified airline has placed a firm order for three CSeries100 aircraft with options for three more. Deliveries of the aircraft will start in 2014.
Jun 08, 2011
Bombardier Aerospace announced Tuesday that an unidentified airline has placed a firm order for three CSeries100 aircraft with options for three more.
Sep 20, 2016
Brazilian manufacturer Embraer has opened its subsidiary aircraft seating manufacturing facility in Titusville, Florida.
Sep 20, 2016
Portuguese carrier Azores Airlines will lease six new Airbus A321neos—including four A321LR long-range versions—from US lessor Air Lease Corp. (ALC).
Sep 20, 2016
Air France will begin operations with new Boeing 787-9s on Jan. 9, 2017, with a service from Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG) to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, the airline announced Sept. 20.
Sep 20, 2016
Morocco’s national airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) inaugurated 3X-weekly nonstop Boeing 787 between Washington Dulles International Airport and Casablanca on Sept. 8, signaling growing commercial ties between the US and Morocco. Until now, passengers traveling between Washington and Morocco had to fly through New York—RAM’s first US destination, or catch a different connecting flight abroad.
Sep 19, 2016
Pratt & Whitney is taking twice as long to build geared turbofan (GTF) engine fan blades as would be ideal, which is the primary cause of GTF delivery delays, the CEO of Pratt’s parent company said.
Sep 19, 2016
Spirit Airlines has taken delivery of its first US-produced Airbus A321, making the Florida-based ultra low-cost carrier the third airline to receive an aircraft produced at Airbus’ Mobile, Alabama manufacturing facility.
Sep 19, 2016
UK leisure airline Jet2 has taken delivery of the first of 30 Boeing 737-800s it has on order.