Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Dec 07, 2017
Qatar Airways has decided to equip its incoming fleet of Airbus A321neos with CFM International Leap-1A engines, dropping an earlier commitment for the competing Pratt & Whitney PW1100G engine.
Dec 07, 2017
Air New Zealand is facing significant disruption in its international network because of problems with the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines on its Boeing 787-9 fleet.
Dec 06, 2017
Scandinavian leisure carrier Primera Air has ordered two more Boeing 737 MAX 9s, taking the original order signed in May 2017 from eight to 10 aircraft.
Dec 06, 2017
Express freight specialist DHL Express has become the first operator to accept an Airbus A330-300 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) converted aircraft from Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the joint venture between Singapore-based ST Aerospace and Airbus.
Dec 05, 2017
Aerolíneas Argentina took delivery of its first Boeing 737 MAX 8 Nov. 29 and flew the aircraft’s first commercial flight from Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport (EZE) to Mendoza in western Argentina Dec. 4.
May 04, 2023
Jetcraft Commercial, the commercial aircraft division of Jetcraft, has closed a transaction to purchase 25 Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft frames.
May 04, 2023
Francisco Gomes Neto was appointed president and CEO at Embraer in May 2019.
May 04, 2023
Flydubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith says he hopes to announce a new narrowbody order at Dubai Airshow 2023.
May 04, 2023
With Aviation Week’s MRO Australasia coming up this month, this week’s #FlightFriday takes a look at Australian and New Zealand operators’ utilization.
May 03, 2023
What if airframer Boeing offered to buy back the Wichita aerostructures operations of Spirit AeroSystems, would Spirit be open to it?
May 03, 2023
Boeing estimates that 75% of the 225 737 MAXs in the company’s undelivered inventory must be repaired.
May 03, 2023
The company said May 3 that “the industrial planning for this variant is being slightly adjusted with the entry-into-service now slipping into 2026.”
May 03, 2023
The technology of thermoplastic composites is coming closer to enabling higher production rates, as well as improved aircraft and engine designs.