“If we had known that the 787 was delayed so much we would not have ordered any,” Al Baker said after disembarking from the first scheduled A350 flight from Doha, Qatar to Frankfurt, Germany.
The cabin modifications would be ready toward the end of the decade, according to Executive Vice-President Programs Didier Evrard, who is also still running the A350 program.
“Some of those freight customers are asking us for those systems today,” says John Tracy, chief technology officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology at Boeing.
The Belgian airline, a fully owned subsidiary of Europe’s largest tourism group, TUI Travel, will put the four aircraft on its air operator’s certificate (AOC) and also provide pilots and cabin crew.
Cathay reports that passenger traffic was “slightly below expectations” in the first half of December, but the carrier saw “very strong” Christmas and New Year periods and broke daily volume records.
The Malaysia-based carrier has opted to step back from its rapid expansion to allow routes added in recent years mature, CEO Azran Osman-Rani tells Aviation Week.
Speaking at Aviation Week’s MRO Latin America Conference, ICF International Vice President Jonathan Berger points out fuel typically accounts for about 30% of an airline’s budget.
In competing filings with the U.S. Transportation Department (DOT), the three carriers lay out their cases for why they should be awarded—or in Delta’s case, allowed to retain—the slots.
Beverly Wyse, who leads the 737 program and Renton site, will replace Jones as Vice President and General Manager of Boeing South Carolina (BSC). Wyse will be replaced by Scott Campbell who leads the 767 program at Everett and oversaw the first flight of the 767-2C freighter version for the KC-46A tanker program at the end of December.
The comments follow Airbus’s formal launch of its longer-range A321neo on Jan. 13 and reinforce Boeing’s view that the current-replacement market for the 757 may not be as large as Airbus forecasts.
American has assigned 20 of its new E175s to Compass, and more routes from Los Angeles should be announced as the regional airline takes delivery of more aircraft.
The carrier will also connect Chengdu to Colombo, Sri Lanka and has decided to increase its service between Beijing and Los Angeles to three flights daily, from the current two.
