Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Jun 06, 2016
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) will phase out its six Airbus A380s by June 2018 when the last of its six ordered A350 XWBs arrive.
Jun 02, 2016
Asked whether there were too many A380s in the Emirates’ fleet, Clark said, “Oh no, never enough, no way. The A380 is the sweetest thing for us. It is our one unique selling point; this is a marketing advantage.”
May 19, 2016
Aer Lingus CEO Stephen Kavanagh expresses his support for Norwegian International's bid to provide service out of Dublin to the US. He was speaking at the International Aviation Club in Washington, DC May 18, 2016.
May 17, 2016
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) will create a different business and service model for its Airbus A380s, which will begin to come into the fleet in 2018, president and CEO Osamu Shinobe told ATW in Tokyo.
May 16, 2016
UK aerostructures and components manufacturer GKN Aerospace plans to expand to the point where it makes up 50% of the turnover of parent GKN Group, CEO Kevin Cummings said in London.
Feb 09, 2015
A selection of photos from ATW's Aviation Editor Kurt Hofmann aboard the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8I aircraft.
Feb 06, 2015
Flydubai took delivery of its 44th Boeing 737-800 of an order for 50 placed at the Farnborough Airshow in 2008. The remaining 737s from the order will arrive at the airline this year. The average age of the flydubai fleet is 3.1 years. Flydubai also has on order 75 Boeing 737 MAX 8s and 11 more Boeing 737-800s, placed at the Dubai Airshow 2013.
Feb 03, 2015
ICAO is proposing that airlines begin taking responsibility for knowing the whereabouts of their aircraft in oceanic areas by late 2016.
Feb 03, 2015
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is joining the growing number of airlines that are introducing a premium economy class, with the product to be rolled out across a large part of its fleet over the next few years.
Feb 03, 2015
Kazakhstan-based Air Astana has introduced an economy sleeper class on Boeing 757 services from Astana to London and Frankfurt from Feb. 3; Paris will be added March 29.
Jan 16, 2015
Germany-based airberlin will install 23,000 new seats in its 120 narrowbody aircraft.
Jan 07, 2015
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker said the carrier is trialing the use of constant data uploads from flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, aka black boxes, of its aircraft.