Emirates Airline signed a firm order for 50 Airbus A350s at the Dubai Airshow Nov. 18 in what is the first step of several to transform its aircraft commitments and fleet plans.
SalamAir has agreed to lease two new Airbus A321LRs from GECAS and is eyeing them to address peak-season capacity surges and winter charter demand to Europe, among other routes, the airline’s top executive said.
Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) first Airbus A321LR will enter commercial service in September 2020, operating an initial route between Copenhagen and Boston.
Boeing continues to see solid demand for widebody aircraft in the Middle East—despite Emirates’ delay in confirming a 2015 preliminary order for 40 Boeing 787s and plans to stretch 777X deliveries over a longer period.
Boeing’s low-key approach with the 737 MAX at Dubai hit an unexpected but welcomed snag on the show’s second day, as Turkish leisure carrier and MAX customer SunExpress exercised options for 10 737 MAX 8s.
The unprecedented and ongoing examination of aircraft certification triggered by the two Boeing 737 MAX accidents has identified several areas that must change to improve outcomes, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said.
GE is resuming its production ramp-up of GE9X engines for Boeing’s 777-9 following the faster-than-expected test and validation of fixes to the durability problem which forced the airframe maker to delay the big twinjet’s first flight into early 2020.
United Airlines on Nov. 15 removed all Boeing 737 MAX operations from its schedule through Mar. 4, 2020, one week after American Airlines and Southwest Airlines also pulled the type through the first week of March.
U.S. lawmakers are waiting to get a 290-vote supermajority before bringing a bill to the House floor that would fund the FAA during future U.S. government shutdowns, House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation chairman Rick Larsen (D-Washington) said.
As Boeing is gradually progressing toward the reauthorization of 737 MAX passenger flights, French pilot union SNPL France ALPA is calling for thorough pilot training before the aircraft returns to service.
More than a decade after Airbus and General Electric parted ways over failed plans to power the A350, the two companies have begun preliminary talks aimed at potential development of an “evolved” GEnx-based engine design for possible future variants of the big twinjet.
Mitsubishi Aircraft has brought in-house the production of tail parts of the SpaceJet regional aircraft that were formerly assigned to composites specialist Toray.
Qantas has completed the second of its three planned ultra-long-haul trials by operating a non-scheduled flight from London to Sydney in 19 hr. 19 min.
Lower deliveries caused by the Boeing 737 MAX grounding, a union strike, and new program costs combined to cut into Canadian aerostructure provider AvCorp Group’s latest quarterly earnings, the company revealed Nov. 15.
Training specialist CAE has signed a long-term agreement to train 1,000 new cadet pilots for UK LCC easyJet on a multi-crew pilot license (MPL) program.
Panama-based Copa Holdings will remove its last 15 Embraer E190s over the next 18 months—three years earlier than planned—as the company accelerates its shift to an all-Boeing 737 fleet.
EASA has awarded type certification to the Airbus BelugaXL, the latest generation of custom-built freighters used by the European manufacturer to transport major components between its factories.
