Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Nov 13, 2012
Mexico’s Interjet (4O) has signed a purchase agreement for 40 Airbus A320neo aircraft.
Nov 13, 2012
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has won 50 orders for the 150-seat C919 at the Zhuhai Air Show.
Nov 12, 2012
Boeing has rolled out the first 787 Dreamliner built at the new production rate of five-airplanes-per-month.
Nov 12, 2012
Gulf Air (GF) has renegotiated its 2008 orders covering 20 Airbus A330s and 24 Boeing 787s, agreeing instead to take up to 24 A320s and a maximum of 16 787s.
Nov 12, 2012
Libya-based Afriqiyah Airways (8U) has placed a follow-on order for four Airbus A350 XWBs and converted its earlier order for six A350-800s to the larger A350-900.
Nov 09, 2012
Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle (DY) will take the delivery of its first Boeing 787 in April 2013.
Nov 09, 2012
Several Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) aircraft delivered to Aeroflot (SU) in 2011 and 2012 could be turned into business jets and sold to other customers, according to Russia’s Prime news agency, which quoted Sukhoi Civil Aviation Co.’s (SCAC) SVP Igor Syrtsov.
Nov 09, 2012
Condor (DE) took delivery of its 12 Boeing 767-300ER. The aircraft, configured with 268 seats, will be used to expand its long haul business for example to South Africa and the Far East. DE has added three 767-300ERs to its fleet within 14 months. Alaska Airlines has introduced its first Boeing 737-900ER, to be used on its Seattle, Wash.-San Diego, Calif. service. It is scheduled to take delivery of 38 of the aircraft through 2017.