Taipei-based China Airlines is seeing improvement in yields on its North American routes since introducing the Boeing 777-300ER, replacing the four-engine 747-400, chairman & CEO Hang Hung Sun told ATW.
United Airlines is shifting some widebody flights among its hubs, as it seeks to ensure more departures are flown by local pilots and tries to more closely align aircraft size with demand.
Icelandair Group has purchased three used Bombardier Q400s, which will be operated by its Air Iceland regional subsidiary and used to upgrade its fleet of five Fokker 50s.
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 aborted takeoff from Chicago Midway Airport late Wednesday after one of its engines appeared to spew fiery sparks as the aircraft was progressing down the runway.
Lufthansa Group subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has unveiled the new cabin layout and route network plans of its new Boeing 777-300ERs, which will begin arriving in January 2016 through 2018.
Boeing has confirmed an order from China Eastern Airlines for 50 Next-Generation 737-800s as stated in its public disclosure to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
TAM, the Brazilian carrier that is part of LATAM Airlines Group, expects to take delivery of its first Airbus A350-900 in December and plans to deploy it on a domestic route initially.
Seven years after setting up a final assembly line and delivery center for the A320 family of aircraft, Airbus and its Chinese partners, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Investment Co. (TJFTZ) and the Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC), have confirmed their cooperation on an A330 operation.
Boeing logged firm orders for a total of 160 commercial aircraft in June, following orders from Qatar Airways, SMBC Aviation Capital, AerCap and at least five unidentified customers.
Boeing has increased the average list prices of its commercial airliners a collective 2.9%, according to new figures released by the US manufacturer. The aircraft behind Boeing’s 2014’s largest commercial aircraft order—the 777-9X—rose in price from $388.7 million in 2014 to $400 million in 2015. It is Boeing’s costliest commercial aircraft. In July 2014, Dubai-based Emirates Airline ordered 115 of the type.
Kazakhstan-based regional carrier Qazaq Air, a subsidiary of Samruk Kazyna, Kazakhstan’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, has announced that it will launch domestic services in Kazakhstan with three Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 aircraft leased from Falcon Aviation Services LLC of Abu Dhabi.
The Taiwanese Aviation Safety Council (ASC) report on the fatal crash of TransAsia Airways flight GE235 in February has detailed the captain’s voice on the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) as saying, “Wow, pulled back the wrong side throttle,” seconds before impact.
Lufthansa said its 33 very large aircraft (VLA)—the Airbus A380 and Boeing-747-8I—is a good number for the company but does not expect to add more, Lufthansa Group chairman & CEO Carsten Spohr told ATW in Warsaw.
Aircraft procurement firm China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. (CAS) has signed a “general terms agreement” (GTA) for 45 Airbus A330 family aircraft and an MOU covering 30 A330 options.
Boeing will collaborate with Embraer to fly a test bed for environmental technologies in Brazil in 2016, as a follow on the US manufacturer’s series of ecoDemonstrators.
