EVA Airways plans to order up to 24 Boeing 787-10s and two 777-300ERs in a move that is likely to extend the considerable expansion of the Taiwanese carrier’s fleet that is already underway.
From May 1 next year, Scoot will take over the route from Singapore to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, operating three weekly nonstop services with its Boeing 787-8s.
ATR has logged about 60 firm orders and 35 options so far this year and says it hopes to add another 10 to 20 sales before the end of the year, “but probably not a lot more,” de Castelbajac conceded.
The UAVs, the first of which was purchased two years ago, have now been used at the site of 16 crashes around the U.K., said Stuart Hawkins, a senior inspector of air accidents, to delegates at the AAIB’s centenary conference at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London Oct. 14.
TRJet’s German sister company, 328 Support Services, and Pratt & Whitney Canada signed a memorandum of understanding on Oct. 14 that covers upgraded PW306B engines to power the aircraft.
Airbnb Chief Marketing Officer Jonathan Mildenhall gave few details, but said the program would launch soon, with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson kicking off the partnership on a flight to Hawaii.
This week, the airline announced an exclusive, three-year airframe-maintenance deal for Virgin Atlantic’s 10 Airbus A330s, which includes aircraft modifications and C checks.
The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) has said Malaysia Airlines’ branch at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport failed to follow a 2008 internal mandate to record the nationality of passengers before a flight.
This week, JetBlue Airways has begun installing its Ka-band satellite-based Wi-Fi on its fleet of 60 Embraer 190s, with installation expected to be complete by the fall of 2016. The carrier has completed installing the system, called “Fly-Fi,” on its fleet of 150 Airbus A320s and A321s.
Delta Air Lines is buying six slot pairs at slot-constrained London Heathrow Airport from joint-venture partner Air France-KLM, the Atlanta-based airline’s executives said on Oct. 14.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) is ramping up its service in the important Tokyo-Shanghai market, adding more flights from Tokyo Haneda Airport to Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Irish regional carrier CityJet is not concerned about a possible export ban of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) passenger aircraft to Europe, and has mitigated this risk by concluding a leasing deal instead of an outright purchase, an executive has said.
While Qantas contends the Boeing 787-9s it has on order could potentially fly nonstop from the west coast of Australia to the U.K., any such use of the aircraft is unlikely in the near future.
Airlines could be overpaying an average of $1.65 million per narrowbody when redelivering aircraft to lessors, according to a new International Bureau of Aviation (IBA) white paper.
Following news last week that talks to sell the C Series program to Airbus had failed, Bombardier is trying to reassure its customers that the future of the C Series is not in doubt.
Slow fleet growth will characterize the European air-transport MRO market, as airlines replace their older aircraft with new-technology models, consultants at the MRO Europe conference here this week have said.
In one program announced in a recent note to employees, United is now upgrading some high-value passengers on long-haul international flights to first class, from business class.
Irish regional carrier Cityjet signed an agreement to take up to 25 of the aircraft, with 15 on firm order. The airline plans to take an initial four aircraft next year, and another 11 in 2017.
