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.
