Air Lease Corp. (ALC) placed an order for 50 Airbus A220-300s on the opening day of the Paris Air Show. The US lessor plans to take delivery of the aircraft between 2021 and 2026, according to the terms of the preliminary order.
UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic will acquire 14 Airbus A330-900s, with an option for six more, in a move CEO Shai Weiss said will position the carrier for future growth.
Boeing is revising the 777X test plan to maximize ground evaluations as it attempts to compensate for a lengthy delay to first flight following the recent discovery of a durability issue on the aircraft’s General Electric GE9X engines.
Boeing has issued its most positive commercial market outlook yet with a forecast that calls for the delivery of 44,040 new aircraft valued at more than $6.8 trillion over the next 20 years.
L3 Commercial Aviation revealed plans to build its first US airline training center, which will open in October and be co-located with the company’s Arlington, Texas-based L3 Link Training & Simulation facility.
Wichita-based Spirit AeroSystems unveiled new production methods for carbon fiber composite materials that the company said will lower costs and increase production volumes on future aircraft components.
Boeing is reportedly considering offering the larger of the two proposed new midmarket airplane (NMA) variants first for delivery in 2025 as it nears closing the business case and obtaining board permission for formal authority to offer later this year.
Airbus launched the long-expected A321XLR on the opening day of the Paris Air Show and expects airlines to operate “hundreds” of the aircraft over time as new secondary long-haul markets are developed.
Qantas and GE Aviation are expanding GE’s FlightPulse flight analytics app to give pilots actionable information based on historical flight data that they can use to optimize individual flights.
Russia’s CIS-wide Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has posted a preliminary report on the crash of an Aeroflot Sukhoi SuperJet 100-95 (SSJ100) at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport May 5.
As the 53rd Paris Air Show opens, there are signs that Boeing is nearing the next key milestones on its path to getting the grounded fleet back into operational service.
CFM International is using the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX to catch up with deliveries of the aircraft’s LEAP-1B engine and develop long-term fixes for to address early in-service issues.
Emirates Airline is negotiating with Boeing to spread out deliveries of the Boeing 777X over a longer period of time and will likely switch from the larger 787-10 to the smaller 787-9.
With a new majority stakeholder now in place at UK-Swedish cargo airline West Atlantic, CEO Lars Jordahn anticipates new synergies and efficiencies in the future.
Thai LCC Nok Air has appointed Wutthiphum Jurangkool as its new CEO and executive director after the previous CEO Piya Yodmani left the post in August 2018.
Air Austral has leased two Airbus A330-200s to help limit disruption to its peak summer schedule after grounding one of its two Boeing 787s for at least two months because of ongoing issues with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines.
Air France-KLM will consider Boeing 737 MAX, Airbus A320neo and A220 aircraft types as it prepares to renew its short- and medium-haul fleet, CEO Ben Smith told ATW on the sidelines of the Paris Air Forum June 14.
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury warns that the introduction of tariffs in aerospace as a result of the two World Trade Organization (WTO) cases against the European Union and the US would be “just a disaster.”
A US government watchdog report on airline IT outages and their effect on passengers concludes that while a large majority of outage events lead to flight delays and cancellations, they account for less than 1% of customer complaints.
