Boeing said the second of six 787s to be used in the flight test program has moved to the flight line to begin fuel testing. ZA002, which already is painted in ANA livery, will focus on systems performance (ATWOnline, May 18).

Pratt & Whitney and Korean Air signed a contract worth approximately $300 million for PW4170 Advantage 70 engines for six new A330s, plus two spares. Pratt also announced a 10-year Engine Management Program agreement with Japan Airlines covering 75 PW4000 and V2500 engines and a three-year parts repair agreement valued at more than $75 million covering JT9Ds and PW4000s. It also announced EcoPower engine wash agreements with JetBlue Airways, Hawaiian Airlines and ArkeFly.

Jetstar A330-200 en route from Osaka Kansai to Gold Coast was forced to divert to Guam last Thursday after smoke was detected, followed by flames flaring from the rearmost cockpit window on the aircraft's right side in the area where the window heater is located. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau launched an investigation. The A330, carrying 203 passengers and crew, left Osaka just before 11 p.m. local time Wednesday. The fire occurred about 3 hr. 50 min. into the flight.

GE Aviation and NASA plan to begin wind tunnel testing this summer to "evaluate counterrotating fan-blade systems" for open rotor jet designs, GE said (ATWOnline, May 26). Testing will be conducted throughout 2009 and early 2010 at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. For the NASA tests, GE will run two rows of counterrotating fan blades with 12 blades in the front row and 10 in the back row.

Air China is cutting its international capacity owing to the market downturn but will not go so far as to defer any aircraft deliveries this year, MD Lou Yongfeng told ATWOnline at this week's IATA annual general meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

Transaero took delivery of two CFM56-7-powered, 176-seat 737-800s. It now flies 17 737s.

SkyWest said it is "aggressively pursuing other opportunities" for the 12 CRJs that are being removed from the Midwest Airlines fleet after that carrier ended its air service agreement with SkyWest and struck a separate deal with Republic Airways to provide regional lift.

Augsburg Airways took delivery of its first E-195. Aircraft seats 116 passengers in two classes and is part of an order for 30 E-Jets placed by Lufthansa two years ago.