China Aviation Supplies Holding Co. (CAS) has signed a general terms agreement to purchase 70 Airbus aircraft, comprising 43 A320 family aircraft and 27 A330s as part of a deal to extend the A320 assembly at its Tianjin final assembly line (FAL) for 10 years.
FAA has issued an airworthiness directive (AD) mandating the removal of “defective software” on GE Aviation GEnx-powered Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental and 747-8 freighter aircraft.
Debris spotted in the south Indian Ocean appears to be wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. Malaysia’s prime minister and the airline’s Group CEO have both issued statements saying new data and analysis shows the aircraft, a Boeing 777-200, went down in a remote area of the ocean west of Perth.
Singapore-based Tiger Airways Holdings, parent company of the Tigerair group of low-cost carriers, has placed an order for 37 Airbus A320neos—but canceled nine Airbus A320ceos currently on order.
Debris spotted in the south Indian Ocean appears to be wreckage from missing Malaysia Airlines MH370. The Boeing 777-200, with 239 people on board, went missing March 8 during a routine flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
Following reports that new satellite images have identified floating debris that could be remnants of the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 flight MH370, search efforts have been further ramped up in the south Indian Ocean.
The future air cargo market could be significantly different from its traditional model, according to industry experts on a panel at the ISTAT Americas 2014 Conference in San Diego earlier this week.
Rolls-Royce is considering a model in which it would lease engines to aircraft operators, although the idea is still in its infancy. Over the last 20 to 30 years, Rolls-Royce has shifted from supplying engines to providing full support package under its TotalCare service range.
Bombardier is marketing a 50-seat passenger/cargo combi version of the Q400 turboprop as it strives to extend the production life of its regional aircraft through the transition to full-rate output of the CSeries narrowbody aircraft.
Australian authorities are intensifying their search efforts in the Indian Ocean southwest of Perth where satellite images showed some unidentified debris that might be connected to the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200.
Early Bombardier CSeries flight-test results are supporting performance predictions, giving the Canadian manufacturer confidence in its projections for the all-new narrowbody airliner, the company’s head of aerospace said Thursday.
The first Boeing next-generation 737 to be built at the increased rate of 42 airplanes per month rolled out of the manufacturer’s Renton, Wash., factory Wednesday. The 737-800 will be delivered to Air Berlin and ultimately leased to Transavia France.
The hunt for Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370 intensified in the southern Indian Ocean Thursday after Australian satellite images showed debris southwest of Perth that may “possibly be related to the search,” Malaysia’s top transportation minister confirmed.
