Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Nov 08, 2005
GoJet Airlines took delivery of three of six leased CRJ700s last week. The new Regional, flying as United Express, ordered 10 CRJ700s, four from the airframer and six through GECAS (ATWOnline, June 23). The remaining three GECAS aircraft will be delivered by April.
Nov 07, 2005
AirBridge Cargo of Russia, the scheduled cargo airline of Volga-Dnepr Group, ordered two 747-400ER freighters. The aircraft, worth $450 million, will be powered by GE CF6-80C2B5F engines and are scheduled for delivery in October 2007 and February 2008. "The addition of this advanced aircraft to our cargo fleet will allow AirBridge Cargo to take another step in the realization of our ambitious project to develop scheduled cargo flights between Asia and North America via Russia," said Volga-Dnepr VP San Wraight. AirBridge, formed in February 2004, has a fleet of three 747-200s.
Nov 07, 2005
Airbus said its third A380 powered by Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines, MSN 2, performed a successful inaugural 3-hr. flight Nov. 3. All systems were checked out and the whole flight envelope was cleared. The aircraft will fly to Hamburg where it will be the first to be fitted with a full cabin.
Nov 07, 2005
Royal Air Maroc signed a purchase agreement Nov. 2 in Casablanca finalizing its acquisition of five 787s for $650 million (ATWOnline, Aug. 11). The first aircraft is due to be delivered in October 2008, the airline said in a statement.
Nov 03, 2005
Airbus has started testing the A380's range and fuel-burn characteristics, according to COO and Head-A380 Program Charles Champion. Speaking to ATWOnline, Champion said he didn't expect any surprises: "We have already done some tests with MSN 001 but these were done with engines that were not optimized. We are very confident of meeting our guarantees." The fuel burn and payload/range tests will be done with MSN 004, which flew recently (ATWOnline, Oct. 19). Champion added that Airbus found no problems with the flight envelope and no issues with the structural tests.
Sep 29, 2016
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.’s first MRJ90 test aircraft has arrived at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, where it will build hours toward type certification. The aircraft, FTA-1, took off from Nagoya in Japan at 1328 (JST) Sept. 26 and arrived at Grant County at 0944 (JST) Sept. 29, or 1744 local time on Sept. 28. The ferry flight was expected to take at least four days.
Sep 29, 2016
Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp.’s first MRJ90 test aircraft has arrived at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, Washington, where it will build hours toward type certification.
Sep 29, 2016
Air France-KLM has signed an agreement with connectivity provider Gogo, covering Wi-Fi installation across 124 long-haul aircraft.
Sep 29, 2016
Flight operations from Dubai International Airport were disrupted for nearly an hour Sept. 28 because of unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, activity.
Sep 29, 2016
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Austrian Airlines will add two more Airbus A320s to its fleet this year and one additional Boeing 777-200ER from summer 2018, representing an investment value of more than €100 million ($112 million), according to a statement.
Sep 29, 2016
RwandAir took delivery of the first of two long-haul, widebody Airbus A330s—an A330-200—becoming the launch operator of the type in East Africa, on Sept. 28. The Kigali-based carrier also has an A330-300 on order, which will be delivered in November. ATW correspondent was invited to join the delivery flight of RwandAir's first widebody aircraft from Toulouse via Entebbe, Uganda, to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda.
Sep 29, 2016
While the sunsetting of the US Airways brand is the most public change from its merger with American, most of the work of integration happened behind the scenes and in fact is continuing.
Sep 29, 2016
There is still disagreement over whether short-term aircraft demand has already peaked or is about to—or whether there is time left until the going gets much tougher.