Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Nov 21, 2012
Swiss International Air Lines (LX) is deciding how best to replace its fleet of 15 Airbus A340-300s.
Nov 21, 2012
Air Berlin (AB) is planning to further cut its operational fleet from 158 to 135 aircraft as part of a new drive for more cost cutting.
Nov 20, 2012
GE Aviation has acquired the assets of Ohio-based Morris Technologies and its sister company Rapid Quality Manufacturing. The privately-held companies specialize in additive manufacturing, a technology GE called a “new star” in its portfolio.
Nov 20, 2012
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has reached agreement with state-owned Turus Pesawat for a financing arrangement of up to MYR5.311 billion ($1.72 billion) to purchase eight Airbus aircraft. The bond will fund the acquisition of six Airbus A380-800s, one A330-200F and one A330-300. MAS took delivery of its third A380 on Nov. 15, part of its current order for six (ATW Daily News, May 30).
Nov 19, 2012
Air Lease Corp. has placed two new ATR 72-600s from its order pipeline on long-term lease to Mexico’s Aeromar, scheduled for delivery between April and May 2013. Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) authorized a guarantee of an approximately $500 million loan to Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. (LOT Airlines) for the export of a fleet of Boeing 787s to Poland. Apple Bank for Savings of New York provided the loan.
Jun 11, 2021
With crossover narrowbody jets such as the Embraer E-Jet families and the Airbus A220 family proving to have the right characteristics to deliver…
Jun 10, 2021
With investments from American Airlines, Avolon, Honeywell and Rolls-Royce, plus commitments for up to 1,000 aircraft, electric air-taxi developer Vertical Aerospace has reached agreement with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition to go public in a deal that values the UK startup at $2.2 billion.
Jun 10, 2021
Russia’s Irkut Corporation has scheduled the initial deliveries of its new MC-21 narrowbody passenger airliner, the first six of which will go to Rossiya Airlines in 2022.
Jun 10, 2021
Boeing’s inventory of completed, undelivered 787s grew to about 100 aircraft at the end of the first quarter, largely due to a five-month delivery pause that ended in late March.
Jun 10, 2021
The trial will be a follow-on to a similar one performed earlier this year with an A350.
Jun 09, 2021
Aiming to meet its long-term expansion plans, Spring Airlines is looking to buy nine Airbus A320s and a flight simulator.
Jun 09, 2021
Alessandro Profumo is upbeat about the future of post-COVID-19 European defense capability.
Jun 08, 2021
Regional air mobility startup Electra has unveiled its first commercial product, a hybrid-electric aircraft designed to fly a pilot and seven passengers up to 500 mi. with takeoff and landing distances of just 100 ft.