Central Asia-based Uzbekistan Airways is converting its two Boeing 767-300ERs into freighters to expand cargo operations from Tashkent to Shanghai Pudong, Hong Kong and Guangzhou.
Ryanair has agreed to purchase five additional Boeing 737-800s, adding to its current order book of 175 of the type, which it finalized at the Paris Air Show.
Norwegian Air Shuttle has warned it may shelve plans for its Irish-based international subsidiary Norwegian Air International (NAI) and postpone orders for 20 Boeing 787s if US approval for planned transatlantic operations is not granted soon.
Embraer posted a first-quarter net profit of $110 million, more than tripling net income of $30 million in the year-ago period, on a 13.8% year-over-year rise in revenue to $1.24 billion.
As commercial aircraft lessors’ influence in the global airline market continues to rise, leasing companies are not being shy about telling Airbus and Boeing what they want and when they want it.
Aerial searches for wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 will be suspended while the undersea search area will be widened as part of a new phase of the hunt for flight MH370.
AirAsia X has selected GE Aviation’s CF6-80E1 engines to power its order of 25 Airbus A330-300s, plus three options, in a deal worth $1.5 billion at list prices.
Where the new Bombardier CSeries and Embraer E2 jets fit in the air transportation business is an open question. Is this new breed of next-generation small airliners considered to be at the top end of the regional jet market or the low end of the mainline narrowbody market, nudging into Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 territory?
Embraer Commercial Aviation forecasts that airlines in Africa and the Middle East will take delivery of 530 new 70-130 seat aircraft, valued at $25 billion at list prices, over the next 20 years.
Russia’s Transaero Airlines, which has unveiled the layout of its new fleet of four Airbus A380s, will be equipped with the highest number of seats—652—compared to other operators of the type.
