Airbus A330

By Lori Ranson
Avianca is deploying more widebodies on routes to the Americas and also plans to redefine an elevated product on its narrowbody aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
Aircraft arriving this year will help accelerate a transition phase for the country’s carriers.
Airlines & Lessors

By Kurt Hofmann
The two Airbus A330-200s are intended to support US-Bangla’s expansion aspirations on medium-haul routes to the Middle East.
Airlines & Lessors

By Prachi Patel
Salih Zeki Ozturk, CEO of Total Technic, discusses the company's future plans to look at potential joint ventures and enhance its repair capabilities.
MRO

By Thierry Dubois
While system redundancy is a pillar of aviation safety, a design team’s efforts may be ruined if a technician makes the same servicing mistake twice.
Maintenance & Training

By Adrian Schofield
The trend of LCCs adding widebodies for medium- and long-haul routes is still gaining popularity in the Asia-Pacific region.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield, Helen Massy-Beresford, Lori Ranson
The widebody LCC trend is still growing in the Asia-Pacific region, but has declined somewhat in Europe and the Americas.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has demonstrated a nonstop long-range flight of its Airbus A400M airlifter, from the UK to Guam.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kurt Hofmann
RwandAir is studying the future replacement of its widebody fleet and the opportunity of electric flying on short-haul routes.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
Hong Kong Airlines has inducted the first of three Airbus A330-300s as the carrier pumps in additional capacity to meet increasing demand.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Lessor Avolon has signed an agreement to place an order for 20 further Airbus A330-900s and is swapping 50 A320neo orders for the larger A321neo version.
Paris Air Show

By Aaron Karp
VietJet's new route between Ho Chi Min City and Brisbane, Australia, is operated using an Airbus A330 aircraft.
Airports & Networks

By Lori Ranson
Aerolineas Argentinas is working to build its Airbus widebody fleet back to pre-pandemic levels and is considering adding Embraer E2s to its operations.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
The Finnair aircraft will operate certain Qantas flights to Bangkok and Singapore.
Airlines & Lessors

By Prachi Patel
The German passenger-to-freighter conversion specialist has received an STC approval from the CAAC.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
A new cooling strategy for the high-pressure turbine is at the heart of the plan to boost Trent 1000 and 7000 durability.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce sees the widebody cargo sector as an increasingly important part of its future portfolio.
Airlines & Lessors

By Helen Massy-Beresford
France’s public prosecutor has launched an appeal after a Paris court verdict cleared Air France and Airbus of charges from the 2009 crash of AF447.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Air China narrowed its first-quarter net loss to CNY3.2 billion ($462 million) from CNY9.8 billion a year prior.
Airlines & Lessors

By Adrian Schofield
While Hawaiian Airlines reports strong demand on most of its international and domestic routes, recovery remains sluggish in the key Japanese tourist market.
Airlines & Lessors

By Guy Norris
Northrop Grumman has partnered with JetZero in its bid to develop a full-scale blended-wing-body demonstrator as a tanker-transport for the U.S. Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The verdict comes nearly 14 years after the crash of Air France flight AF447 in 2009, which killed all 228 people on board an Airbus A330-200.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Adrian Schofield
Cathay is also looking at placing new orders for freighter aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
The Airbus A330-200, registered 9XR-WX, was delivered from Châteauroux, France, to RwandAir’s Kigali home hub on March 18.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace