Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 12, 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland's RBS Aviation Capital subsidiary is the customer that canceled its order for 25 787s, Airbus Executive VP-Programs Tom Williams confirmed to ATWOnline in Hamburg. Boeing revealed the cancellation on its Orders and Deliveries website for the week ended May 5 (ATWOnline, May 8). RBS was hit hard by the financial crisis and the UK government has taken a majority stake as part of its bailout effort.
May 12, 2009
Japan Airlines took delivery of a 767-300ER, the 50th 767 it has received from Boeing.
May 12, 2009
KLM appointed Cabot Aviation to remarket 13 737-300s/-400s to be phased out between 2010 and 2012.
May 08, 2009
Source close to the Sukhoi Superjet program questioned an RIA Novosti report that Russia's United Aircraft Corp. plans to reduce its Superjet 100 production to 74 aircraft from the 230 it planned to build by 2012. It still plans to deliver the first SSJ this year to launch customer Aeroflot. The source told ATWOnline that he had received no official word regarding any SSJ production cut, but the Moscow-based news agency said UAC planned to build only 196 commercial aircraft in 2009-12 rather than the 405 approved for production two years ago.
May 08, 2009
Boeing took cancellations for 25 787s during the week ended May 5, according to its Orders and Deliveries website, but it did not say whether the cancellations came from a single or multiple customers. Including the eight Dreamliners firmed up by Gulf Air last month and the 32 cancellations previously announced (ATWOnline, April 17), the manufacturer's 787 net order book for the year to date stands at -49.
Aug 02, 2019
GE’s aviation businesses are seeing some financial disruptions related to the Boeing 737 MAX grounding but expect the issues to fade once the model is back in service, deliveries resume and production ramps up.
Aug 02, 2019
Uber remains the driving force behind urban air mobility, focusing its efforts on removing barrier as momentum continues to build.
Aug 01, 2019
Spirit AeroSystems plans to continue producing Boeing 737 fuselages at a 52/month rate for the foreseeable future, storing extra inventory now and burning it off once Boeing ramps production up sometime in 2020.
Jul 31, 2019
Senior officials from the FAA defended the US agency’s certification of the Boeing 737 MAX as “fundamentally sound” during a US Senate Appropriations Committee hearing July 31.
Jul 31, 2019
American Airlines’ fleet of 28 MD-80s is nearing its final flying days.
Jul 31, 2019
Airbus reported a considerable jump in first-half net profit, which more than doubled to almost €1.2 billion ($1.36 billion), compared to €496 million a year ago.
Jul 31, 2019
A multinational European industry and academic team is in the final preparations for test runs of the first fully superconducting motor prototype.