Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett, Maxim Pyadushkin
The Lrwbca is supposed to be a 50:50 split, but the headquarters and engineering team will be in Shanghai, the project leader and possibly the engine Chinese.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is set to renew its Geneva-based aircraft allocation from Airbus A320s to an all-Bombardier CSeries 100/300 fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Emirates SkyCargo, the freight arm of Dubai-based Emirates Airline, will return two Boeing 747-400ER freighters leased from ASL Airlines Belgium in June, ending the use of 747 freighters in its fleet, Emirates president Tim Clark told ATW.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Boeing plans to conduct the first flight of the 787-10, the third and largest Dreamliner variant, on March 31 from North Charleston, South Carolina.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Lufthansa subsidiary Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is to convert five more Bombardier CSeries 100s to the larger CS300.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
The timing of the flight almost rules out the possibility of the Chinese state manufacturer meeting its internal target of making the first delivery of the 158-seat airliner in 2019.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Private investment advances development of a small turbine engine, promising a much-needed increase in propulsion reliability for Class 3-4 tactical unmanned aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Linda Blachly
Aircraft Briefs-March 21, 2017
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Space start-up Rocket Lab is accelerating series production of rocket engines and avionics for its Electron launch vehicle at a newly opened facility in California.
Space

By Adrian Schofield
Australian turboprop operator Regional Express Holdings (Rex) has grounded six of its Saab 340s for checks, in response to the loss of an aircraft’s propeller while inflight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Singapore-headquartered lessor BOC Aviation has placed an order for 13 Boeing 737 MAX 8s.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
French authorities have joined a UK investigation into alleged misuse of third-party agents and European export credit by Airbus.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Victoria Moores
Singapore-headquartered lessor BOC Aviation has placed an order for two more Airbus A320-200s for delivery this year.
Airlines & Lessors

By Victoria Moores
Embraer’s fourth E190-E2 test aircraft flew for the first time March 17, performing an initial two-hour mission.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Thai Airways International expects to take four more Airbus A350 XWBs this year, increasing the number of deliveries to six.
Aircraft & Propulsion

South Korean carrier Asiana Airlines is getting ready to take delivery of its first of 22 Airbus A350-900s in April, and recently received an A350 simulator to begin flight crew training.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

The Civil Aviation Administration of China’s (CAAC) Air Traffic Management Bureau signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Boeing in an effort to alleviate increasing air traffic congestion in China.
Airports & Networks

By Mark Nensel
Responding to a reported tripling of recreational unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) incidents since 2014, Transport Canada issued new operational rules March 16, effective immediately.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jens Flottau
Boeing’s task is to develop an A300/310 done right, a technologically up-to-date yet affordable 757/767 hybrid. Easily done? Absolutely not. Impossible? Absolutely not.
Air Transport

By Victoria Moores
Argentine ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) startup Flybondi has selected the Boeing 737-800 as its launch aircraft and is ready to begin negotiations for up to 50 737 MAX 200s.
Airlines & Lessors

By Karen Walker
US air traffic control would be taken out of FAA and placed under the management of an independent agency under President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal.
Airports & Networks

By Jens Flottau
After a prolonged fiduciary scandal and transition in leadership, Austrian composites specialist FACC hopes it is now back to business as usual.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Ruag faces some challenges due to Swiss neutrality laws, but hopes to use experience on the Airbus A320 and composites to be in line for narrowbody contracts.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Polina Montag-Girmes
A merger between Russia’s state-owned Rostec and United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) “could probably be appropriate, but not today,” Rostec CEO Sergey Chemezov told Russia 24 TV channel March 14.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Latin American airlines, LCCs as well as mainline are looking to offer lower fares in the market.
Aircraft & Propulsion