Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 30, 2014
Airbus Group has finalized the acquisition of Salzburg München Bank from Raiffeisenverband Salzburg.
Jul 29, 2014
Airbus has terminated an order for six A380s from Tokyo-based Skymark Airlines, scheduled for delivery between 2014 and 2015.
Jul 29, 2014
Calgary-based WestJet, which originally had 20 Bombardier Q400s on firm order, has converted an additional five of its 25 options into firm orders, in a deal valued at approximately $167 million based on current list prices.
Jul 29, 2014
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787-9, becoming the first airline to operate both the 787-8 and 787-9 variants of the Dreamliner family when the airline launches 787-9 services on domestic Japanese routes in August.
Jul 29, 2014
Russia’s Ilyushin Finance Co. (IFC)—which has 32 Bombardier CS300s, plus 10 options, on order—has agreed to postpone delivery from November 2015 to April 2016.
Sep 06, 2022
A&D is losing talent to other sectors and technology companies “at potentially unsustainable rates,” with technology-related outflows of workers twice their inflows.
Sep 06, 2022
The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.
Sep 06, 2022
As novel cockpits become a pressing need in civil and military aviation, sensors may enable the creation of metrics for human factors.
Sep 02, 2022
Transferring integrated model-based system engineering (MBE) tools for aircraft design and production to the commercial sector is no slam-dunk.
Sep 02, 2022
An early August delivery to American Airlines was lauded as the first Boeing 787 handover in more than a year, but the manufacturer’s accounting policies mean history will tell a different story.
Sep 02, 2022
The module will contribute to increased efficiency and lower fuel burn.
Sep 02, 2022
After a harmful expansion that took it close to collapse, Norwegian Air Shuttle’s new short-haul strategy is paying off.
Sep 01, 2022
Problems with a part wearing prematurely led CFM International to recommend special monitoring of a Leap-1B performance parameter, and European regulators will mandate the work.