Aircraft & Propulsion

China’s Juneyao Airlines has announced an order for 10 Boeing 787-9s, comprising five firm orders and five options.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. will need to produce additional MRJ90 flight test aircraft to gain certification, a consequence of systems revisions that have caused a two-year program delay.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Irish regional airline CityJet is to acquire Scandinavian Airlines’ (SAS) Danish regional subsidiary Cimber and has signed a conditional purchase agreement for six Bombardier CRJ900s, plus four options.
Airlines & Lessors

By Jens Flottau
Everyone seems to want to be in on the newly lucrative aircraft financing industry.
Air Transport

By Linda Blachly
Japan Air Commuter—member of the JAL Group—has taken delivery of its first 50-seat ATR 42-600.
Aircraft & Propulsion

For French-Italian turboprop manufacturer ATR (Avions de Transport Régional), consolidated 2016 firm orders and estimated order values, organized by customer name.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Turboprop manufacturer ATR logged orders for 36 aircraft and delivered 80 aircraft in 2016, generating a $1.8 billion turnover.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
The flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) retrieved last week from the ACT Airlines Boeing 747 freighter crash site and sent to Moscow for analysis have significant mechanical damage and high temperature traces, according to Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC).
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), the parent of Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., has made official a further two-year delay in the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
United President Scott Kirby is looking to fulfill the airline’s potential with some major organizational moves.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Saudi Arabia’s national carrier Saudia will take delivery of 30 aircraft this year, according to a Jan. 17 statement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Nensel
The International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers (IAM) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Jan. 20 to hold an election to unionize more than 2,850 production employees at Boeing’s South Carolina facility in North Charleston.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. is expected to announce a further delay to the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program on Jan. 23.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) has scheduled the inaugural flight of its newest Star Wars-themed aircraft—a Boeing 777-200 featuring C-3PO—on Tokyo Haneda-Kagoshima service March 21.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Avian Líneas Aéreas, the new subsidiary of South America’s Synergy Aerospace, has taken delivery of the first ATR 72-600 to fly in Argentina.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Russia’s S7 Airlines will start Embraer E170LR operations from April 1 with services from Novosibirsk to Surgut, Gorno-Altaisk, Nizhnevartovsk, Noyabrsk and Novy Urengoy.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Moores
South African regional airline Airlink will acquire three Embraer E170s and two E190s from Embraer subsidiary ECC Leasing, as part of a wider plan to take 13 E-Jets in total.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Aircraft & Leasing Briefs-Jan. 18, 2017
Aircraft & Propulsion

Finnair has denied media reports that it has plans to switch some of its Airbus A350-900 orders into the larger -1000 variant, a spokesperson in Helsinki confirmed to ATW.
Airports & Networks

By Adrian Schofield
The Malaysia-based AirAsia low-cost carrier (LCC) group will ramp up its fleet growth this year, with many of its new additions consisting of Airbus A320neos for its Malaysian and Thai operations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Search teams have recovered the second flight recorder of the ACT Airlines’ Boeing 747 freighter that crashed near Manas airport Jan. 16, the Kyrgyzstan government said in a statement.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
UK aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has finalized a series of agreements with authorities in three countries, at a cost of £671 million ($808.5 million), related to a bribery and corruption investigation.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

For Brazilian manufacturer Embraer's commercial aircraft, consolidated 2016 orders, deliveries and cancellations -- updated through the 2016 fourth quarter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
Search teams have recovered the flight data recorder (FDR) of the ACT Airlines’ Boeing 747 freighter that crashed near Manas airport, the Kyrgyzstan government said in a statement.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Victoria Moores
Australia, China and Malaysia have officially announced the end of the search for the missing Boeing 777-200ER that operated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which crashed in March 2014.
Aircraft & Propulsion