Boeing has closely collaborated with LIFT by EnCore to develop a new 737 seat option, which has been unveiled at the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg.
Aeroflot’s consolidated regional subsidiary Rossiya Airlines will take delivery of aircraft with the new livery in April, Aeroflot said in a statement.
Lufthansa Group’s acceptance of a second Airbus A320neo was conditional on a compensation agreement because the Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) engine is still not operating to full expected performance levels, the airline said.
Lufthansa, which will base its first 10 Airbus A350-900s at its Munich hub from January 2017, has disclosed several cabin features of the new aircraft.
Russia’s S7 Airlines has taken delivery of six more Boeing 737-800NGs, in addition to the four it has already received; two more will be delivered in April.
UK startup Straightline Aviation (SLA) has placed a letter of intent for up to 12 Lockheed Martin Hybrid Airships. The deal, the first for the new airship, is potentially worth up to $480 million.
Latin America will need 2,540 new passenger and freighter aircraft between 2015 and 2034 to meet long-term growth in the region, Airbus predicts in its latest Global Market Forecast (GMF).
Boeing has forecast that Latin American airlines will need 3,050 new aircraft valued at $350 billion in the next two decades, tripling the region’s current fleet size.
Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) said a preliminary analysis of the flydubai Boeing 737 data recorder has found “no onboard system malfunctions, aircraft components’ defects or power system failures.”
As released by the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on March 25,2016, a comprehensive list of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) sightings reported to the FAA by commercial passenger and air cargo carriers from Nov.13, 2014 through Jan. 31, 2016.
FAA has forecasted total annual unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) sales of 7 million in the US by 2020 and also released a new report detailing UAV sightings around airports, which the agency said have “increased dramatically over the past two years.”
Russian authorities have established the Aviation Register of the Russian Federation, which will be responsible for aircraft design, components, engines and propeller certification.
A possible last-minute error by one of the pilots may have contributed to the crash of the flydubai Boeing 737-800, according to a transcript a Russian television station says it obtained and which was widely reported by media.
Aegean Airlines, which recently took delivery of its seventh and final Airbus A320ceo, is in the final stages of installing an A320 flight simulator training facility in Athens, Aegean MD Dimitris Gerogiannis said at the A320ceo handover ceremony.
