Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion

Sep 25, 2013
Vietnam low-cost carrier VietJetAir has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Airbus to purchase up to 92 A320 family aircraft.
Sep 25, 2013
Bank of China subsidiary BOC Aviation has announced an additional firm order for 25 Airbus A320 family aircraft, comprising 13 A320ceos and 12 A320neos, at the 15th Aviation Expo China 2013 in Beijing.
Sep 25, 2013
Qingdao Airlines, which formally launched in June, has agreed to order 23 Airbus A320 family aircraft, comprising five A320ceos and 18 A320neos.
Sep 25, 2013
Zhejiang Loong Airlines, a start-up airline based in Hangzhou, capital city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for 20 Airbus A320 family aircraft, including 11 A320ceos and nine A320neos.
Sep 25, 2013
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair has challenged Boeing to find space for an extra 11 seats on its forthcoming 737 MAX, as it seeks to wring maximum productivity from the next-generation single-aisle aircraft.
Mar 04, 2022
Production of SAF from many sources other than cooking oil is coming online.
Mar 03, 2022
Embraer is no longer supporting operators in Russia and Belarus, joining other major Western aerospace manufacturers in taking action in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 
Mar 03, 2022
Despite the overall strong recovery of air transport in traffic, orders and deliveries, Thales is still considering its commercial aviation business to be in an early convalescence phase, according to CEO Patrice Caine.
Mar 03, 2022
Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO Eileen Drake has recruited several more industry and military luminaries in an effort to present a full board of directors who would push off Executive Chairman Warren Lichtenstein and his dissident slate of financial sponsors ahead of the embattled propulsion provider’s annual shareholder meeting.
Mar 03, 2022
Lessor Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) has committed to nine more conversion slots for the A330 Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) with Elbe Flugzeugwerke (EFW), the conversion joint venture between ST Engineering and Airbus.
Mar 03, 2022
New imagery from Ukraine suggests the only example of the world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225, was badly damaged during fighting at the company’s airfield at Hostomel, near Kyiv.
Mar 03, 2022
Aircraft Industries, the Czech manufacturer of the Let family of turboprop transport aircraft, says in an open letter that its ownership by Russian holding group Ural Mining Metallurgical Company (UGMK) “is likely to change a lot for us as a company, but we ourselves do not know what the consequences will be.” 
Mar 03, 2022
Sanctions may have a fast and sweeping effect on Russian air transport, which cannot rely on local production or services.