Spanish carrier Air Europa has ordered 20 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, valued at $2.2 billion at list prices, as revealed at the Farnborough Airshow July 13.
LATAM Airlines Group’s first Airbus A320neo rolled out of the Airbus Final Assembly Line in Toulouse after the installation of Pratt & Whitney Pure Power PW1100-JM engines in the airline’s new livery.
Boeing’s converted freighters program (BCF) gained new customers at Farnborough Airshow on July 13 with orders for eight of the converted passenger aircraft from Bulgaria’s Cargo Air, Colombia’s Lineas Aereas Suramericanas and an unidentified customer.
EgyptAir has been revealed as the purchaser of nine Boeing 737-800s, previously listed on the US manufacturer’s orderbook as being for an unidentified customer.
For Brazilian manufacturer Embraer's commercial aircraft, consolidated 2016 orders, deliveries and cancellations -- updated through the 2016 second quarter.
The Farnborough Airshow livened up Tuesday with a flurry of new aircraft orders, including two big A320neo deals with Asian low-cost carriers. But if any themes are emerging from this show, it’s about Airbus and Boeing testing the airline appetites for larger variants of new aircraft; and also about OEMs securing long-term support service agreements.
As has been the trend at major international air shows in recent years, the news out of the 2016 Farnborough Airshow is as much—if not more—about engines as the aircraft to which the engines are affixed.
Predicting a jump in demand by airlines for support services as the world’s fleets expand over the next 20 years, Airbus has created dedicated business units for maintenance, training, operations and upgrades.
Malaysia-based low-cost carrier (LCC) AirAsia signed a firm order with Airbus for 100 A321neos, the largest single new order for commercial jets announced so far at the Farnborough Airshow.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) president Yury Slusar said at the Farnborough Airshow that the design center, which is developing new Russian-Chinese widebody aircraft, may be located in Zhukovskiy, Moscow Oblast.
Hong Kong lessor China Aircraft Leasing Corp. (CALC) and Hong Kong aviation investor Friedmann Pacific Investment (FPI) signed a preliminary order with Chinese manufacturer COMAC for 60 ARJ21-700 regional jets.
Dublin-based lessor AWAS has chosen CFM International’s CFM56-5B engine to power its 10 new Airbus A320ceos, in an order valued at $320 million at list prices.
Russian air cargo conglomerate Volga-Dnepr Group finalized terms of acquisition with Boeing for 20 747-8 freighters, valued at approximately $7.58 billion at list prices.
Boeing confirmed it is studying a further stretch of the 777X family currently in development, and says such an extension would be relatively easy to accomplish.
