Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Nov 24, 2005
Gol announced yesterday that it signed a contract with Boeing to exercise options for five additional 737-800s, increasing the number of firm orders to 65. Aircraft are scheduled for delivery between 2006 and 2012. Gol reached a deal in July to extend its May 2004 737-800 order to 60 firm and 41 options (ATWOnline, July 26).
Nov 23, 2005
International Lease Finance Corp. signed a deal with Airbus for 12 A350s one day after confirming an order for 20 787s. ILFC is the airframer's largest customer worldwide, having ordered more than 600 new Airbus aircraft since 1989, and was a launch customer for several models including the A380. The order will include dash 800s and dash 900s and took the combined Airbus and Boeing haul in Dubai to more than $20 billion. "The A350's innovative features combined with operational commonality with existing Airbus fleets. . .[make] it an attractive asset to invest in for the future.
Nov 23, 2005
Royal Jordanian Airlines will take delivery of its second Q400 for operation by its new Regional carrier Royal Jordanian xpress. The first Q400 entered revenue service in early November. Air Madagascar took delivery of its second new ATR 72-500 in Dubai.
Nov 23, 2005
Plans for Dubai's new Jebel Ali Airport were unveiled at the Dubai Air Show, and if the world's carriers are shaken by the current infrastructure, the new airport will be major earthquake in airline boardrooms.
Nov 22, 2005
Airbus bounced back after Boeing's domination of the Dubai Air Show's first day as "air show showman" Vijay Mallya, chairman of UB Group and its Kingfisher Airlines, confirmed the carrier's order for 30 more A320 family aircraft (ATWOnline, Nov. 21).
Oct 11, 2016
A Polar Airlines Antonov An-26-100, en route from Yakutsk to Belaya Gora, made a heavy landing at Belaya Gora Airport on Oct.11.
Oct 11, 2016
Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings has agreed to a deal with Boeing to convert nine 767 passenger aircraft into Boeing converted freighters (BCF).
Oct 11, 2016
New deals are creating bigger combinations in the leasing world, which provides about half of the aircraft industry’s orders.
Oct 10, 2016
Lufthansa Group carrier Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will introduce the Boeing 777-300ER onto existing services to Miami and San Francisco from Oct. 30 for the upcoming 2016-17 winter schedules.
Oct 10, 2016
Istanbul-based Turkish Airlines will defer 39 narrowbody deliveries from a 167-strong Airbus and Boeing aircraft order because of decreased demand resulting from a series of terrorist bombings and other economic challenges in Turkey.
Oct 10, 2016
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed that a piece of wing trailing edge debris, found in Mauritius around May 10 is from the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in March 2014 while operating as MH370.
Oct 10, 2016
HY4 flies on hydrogen fuel cell; fuel burn could be reduced faster; laminar-flow wings ready for Europe’s BLADE; flights probe Europe’s weather-forecasting failures.