General Electric has delivered the 1,000th GE90-115B engine as it continues to ramp up production in lockstep with Boeing’s move to a higher assembly rate for the 777 family. The engine, first revealed as the GE90-11XB in May 1999, became the exclusive powerplant for the longer-range 777-200LR and -300ER variants in July of that year. Since the first 777-300ER entered service in 2004, more than 1,500 GE90-115B engines have been ordered for the extended-range family, which also includes the 777 Freighter.
Airbus and its partner CAE have agreed to establish a second training center in India for pilots and maintenance engineers. It will be in Noida, near New Delhi, and will be fully operational by 2013, says Airbus, adding that construction has started. Airbus and CAE have a training center in Bangalore. The new center will open with three simulators—two for Airbus aircraft and one for another aircraft type, Airbus VP-international cooperation Asia Pacific and Middle East, Srinivasan Dwarakanath, said on the sidelines of the India Aviation airshow in Hyderabad.
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Air India has decided to delay by about two years the delivery of three Boeing 777s on order. The aircraft had been slated for delivery by the end of 2013. “We have rescheduled the delivery of three Boeing 777 aircraft ... The delivery has been postponed so that capacity induction is in line with our requirements,” Air India spokesman K. Swaminathan told Aviation Week yesterday. Swaminathan denied that the 777 delivery delay is due to the ongoing financial crisis at the airline.
Let Aircraft Industries in the next six months aims to receive European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) certification for its GE H80-powered Let 410. The Czech aircraft maker, which has applied for a type modification change, must complete about 100 hr. of flight tests for EASA to certify the changes made to the aircraft, the manufacturer’s commercial director, Miroslav Kozisek, told Aviation Week yesterday on the sidelines of the India Aviation air show in Hyderabad.
Czech aircraft-maker Let Aircraft Industries has secured two customers in India for its 19-seat turboprop, the Let 410 UVP-E20. The Let sales agent in India, InterGlobe Established (Estd.), disclosed the orders yesterday at the India Aviation air show in Hyderabad. The customers are New Delhi-based Asia Aviation, which has ordered three aircraft, and Hyderabad-based Turbo Aviation, which has ordered one, InterGlobe President and CEO Nigel Harwood, told Aviation Week on the sidelines of the show.
The legislative battle over the Export-Import Bank’s (Ex-Im Bank) operating authority takes center stage next week in the U.S. Senate, where the supporters of Boeing begin to fight head-to-head against supporters of Delta. During consideration of a small-business jobs bill next week, the Senate is likely to vote on an amendment that would extend Ex-Im Bank’s operating authority to 2015 and increase its lending capacity from $100 billion to $140 billion.
Lufthansa’s board of directors has approved a €140 million ($183 million) capital increase for money-losing subsidiary Austrian Airlines provided that Austrian’s flight crews agree to further contract concessions by the end of the month. Lufthansa, whose CEO, Christoph Franz, says he expects substantial concessions, has threatened to transfer operations from Austrian to lower-cost regional subsidiary Tyrolean if no deal is reached by the end of March.
The Senate is pushing two seemingly contradictory measures designed to improve and yet further restrict air tours over national parks. The Senate approved two amendments on air tours to the comprehensive highway reauthorization bill before passing the legislation in a 74-22 vote March 14.
Advances in conventional and geared turbofans have narrowed the margin, but open-rotor engines still promise substantial fuel saving for next-generation single-aisle aircraft, while beating expected noise limits, says a new NASA study. The just-completed study used new performance and acoustic data from wind-tunnel testing of second-generation, open-rotor blades and was conducted cooperatively by engine manufacturer General Electric and NASA Glenn Research Center.
Lufthansa plans to introduce its first Boeing 747-8 into revenue service in May, according to CEO Christoph Franz. The aircraft is expected to be delivered by the end of April. Deliveries to VIP customers and cargo operators already have started, but Lufthansa will be the first passenger airline to operate the type. The carrier has ordered 20 747-8s that are intended partly to replace its existing fleet of 747-400s, of which it currently operates 28.
Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in sub-Saharan Africa has grown from virtually nothing in the late 1990s to more than $2 billion per year by 2011, prompting a startling increase in airline capacity, data show. From the second quarter of 2010 to the third quarter of last year, capacity between Angola Kangamba Airport and China’s industrial powerhouse city of Chengdu more than sextupled, an analysis of data from Oliver Wyman’s PlaneStats.com shows.
Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways could have as many as 18 Saab 340B+s in its fleet within the next 12 months under a strategy to become the largest U.S. operator of the aircraft in North America, CEO Darrell Richardson tells Aviation Week.
Airbus will set up a third innovation center, likely in Asia. The European aircraft maker, which has innovation centers in Hamburg and Toulouse, plans to set up a third center in another country, Airbus VP international cooperation Asia Pacific and Middle East, Srinivasan Dwarakanath, told Aviation Week on the sidelines of the India Aviation air show in Hyderabad.
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Cash-strapped Air India expects an equity infusion of about 55 billion rupees ($1.1 billion) from the Indian government in the financial year beginning April 1. “We have received 12 billion rupees as equity from the government in the current financial year and expect to get the remaining in the budget that will be announced Friday,” says Air India Chairman Rohit Nandan.
Russian state-owned aircraft maker Irkut is lobbying for the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) to back the MC-21 narrowbody aircraft now in development. Irkut VP-Sales and Marketing Manager Kirill Budaev says the company has started negotiations to persuade Ex-Im to support the MC-21. Irkut is arguing that the aircraft should qualify because Pratt & Whitney is one of the two engine-suppliers and other U.S. companies are suppliers to the program, he adds.
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