China Southern Airlines plans to cooperate with Boeing to establish a 737 NG passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion production line in Guangzhou, China.
Qantas wants its aircraft of choice to be able to fly the anticipated nonstop services from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to London at a full passenger load, the airline’s CEO Alan Joyce said at the Singapore Air Show Aviation Leadership Summit (SAALS).
Airbus debuts the newly-certified A350-1000 at the Singapore Air Show this week as part of a three-week demonstration tour across Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Boeing is preparing to begin flight tests of the third, and smallest member of the 737 MAX family, the 737-7, following the rollout of the first aircraft at its Renton factory in Washington on Feb 5.
Russia’s largest carrier Aeroflot has firmed up an order for 50 MC-21-300 narrowbody airliners, which will be leased through Avia Capital Services, a leasing arm of government-owned Rostec Corp.
CRJ Series regional jets have transformed the airline industry over the past 25 years, and promise to keep making aviation better and more accessible to more communities around the world over the next 25 years and beyond.
Paris’s public prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the Air France A380 engine failure on Sept. 30, 2017, a judicial source told ATW’s sister publication Aviation Daily.
Boeing remains in “active” and “productive” discussions with Embraer and the Brazilian government over a potential alignment of the two aircraft manufacturers, the chief executive of Boeing said Jan. 31.
Airbus, which flew the A321LR for the first time Jan. 31, is studying a further raise in passenger capacity for its largest single-aisle model, executives said in Hamburg.
United Airlines, broadening its used-aircraft acquisition strategy to widebodies, will add three Boeing 767-300ERs to its fleet in 2018, continuing a trend that has seen it tap the second-hand market to boost its fleet significantly in the past two years.
NTSB said FAA and the airline industry should determine if improved ultrasonic inspection of engine parts during manufacturing would have found the defect that caused an uncontained engine failure in October 2016 on an American Airlines Boeing 767.
Airbus and Bombardier say their C Series plans, including an assembly line in Mobile, Alabama, for U.S. customers will continue, despite end of tariff threat.
Boeing’s price-dumping case against Bombardier over the sale of CSeries aircraft to a US airline has been overturned by the US International Trade Commission (ITC), ending the threat of tariffs of almost 300% on CSeries imports into the US.
