Boeing 737

Boeing and India’s GMR Aero Technic have partnered to set up a 737 freighter conversion line at the MRO company’s facility in Hyderabad, India.

Flydubai will launch what it describes as “a comprehensive retrofit program” across its fleet of Boeing 737-800s in 2023.

The market for converted freighters remains strong.

Helping to drive the e-commerce boom is the fact that in certain regions of the world, the phenomenon has hardly scratched the surface.

An undeniable trend voiced in recent supplier surveys and conferences is that providers favor Airbus over Boeing—and maybe any other OEM.

Two more Boeing 737s will join Australian carrier Rex's small but expanding domestic jet operation.

The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.

Lithuanian private and corporate jet charter company KlasJet is moving into the aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance (ACMI) market.

Egyptair M&E may become the latest company to start converting Boeing 737-800 passenger aircraft into freighters.

The 737-700 fleet accounts for 425 of the airlines’ 776 aircraft and should retire over the next 10 years.

Egyptair is interested in expanding in the cargo market, making the most of its geographic location close to where Africa meets the Middle East.

Two pilots survived after the Boeing 737-300 fire fighting tanker they were flying crashed while on a mission in Western Australia.

Sun Country Airlines is not planning to add a large number of aircraft to its fleet in 2023.

Safran Landing Systems reports increased interest from airlines in upgrading to carbon brakes.

L3Harris Technologies has received Transport Canada approval for installation of its new combined voice and flight data recorder on Boeing 737NG aircraft.

Ryanair Group has begun the task of equipping its fleet of more than 400 Boeing 737-800s with sets of Split Scimitar winglets.

Introduction of new technology follows two separate incidents.

Landing gear MRO providers are adding new capabilities, facilities and certifications to meet growing demand.

The initial aerodynamic drag reduction system (ADRS-1) kit is due to enter revenue service in February on a 737-700 operated by launch customer WestJet.

The safety board wants the FAA to explain why the U.S. regulations are adequate while Europe’s are being updated.

Rescuers recovered China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735’s flight data recorder March 27, and investigators are encouraged that damage to the unit will not prevent it from yielding valuable clues that will help explain what brought the aircraft down.

A senior U.S. NTSB investigator and technical advisors from three key stakeholders will be among the U.S. representatives supporting the probe into the March 21

Copa Airlines will retrofit its Boeing 737s with Honeywell’s air separation module (ASM), becoming the first announced customer for the fuel tank safety system component.

The FAA is ordering restrictions for Boeing 737 MAX and some 737 Next Generation models that would prohibit carrying freight in the aft cargo compartment if certain systems not critical for flight are malfunctioning.

The era of Asian LCCs outdoing each other with massive narrowbody orders is probably over for the foreseeable future, as digesting their current backlogs will be enough of a challenge.