Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
May 12, 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland's RBS Aviation Capital subsidiary is the customer that canceled its order for 25 787s, Airbus Executive VP-Programs Tom Williams confirmed to ATWOnline in Hamburg. Boeing revealed the cancellation on its Orders and Deliveries website for the week ended May 5 (ATWOnline, May 8). RBS was hit hard by the financial crisis and the UK government has taken a majority stake as part of its bailout effort.
May 12, 2009
Japan Airlines took delivery of a 767-300ER, the 50th 767 it has received from Boeing.
May 12, 2009
KLM appointed Cabot Aviation to remarket 13 737-300s/-400s to be phased out between 2010 and 2012.
May 08, 2009
Source close to the Sukhoi Superjet program questioned an RIA Novosti report that Russia's United Aircraft Corp. plans to reduce its Superjet 100 production to 74 aircraft from the 230 it planned to build by 2012. It still plans to deliver the first SSJ this year to launch customer Aeroflot. The source told ATWOnline that he had received no official word regarding any SSJ production cut, but the Moscow-based news agency said UAC planned to build only 196 commercial aircraft in 2009-12 rather than the 405 approved for production two years ago.
May 08, 2009
Boeing took cancellations for 25 787s during the week ended May 5, according to its Orders and Deliveries website, but it did not say whether the cancellations came from a single or multiple customers. Including the eight Dreamliners firmed up by Gulf Air last month and the 32 cancellations previously announced (ATWOnline, April 17), the manufacturer's 787 net order book for the year to date stands at -49.
Sep 17, 2015
The first Airbus A350 XWB for Finnair has completed its first flight in Toulouse.
Sep 16, 2015
Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier believes US carriers need to rethink using very large aircraft (VLA), especially as they face growing competition from Gulf carriers.
Sep 16, 2015
Canary Islands regional airline Binter Canarias has taken delivery of the first of 12 ATR 72-600s ordered through two different contracts signed in 2014 and earlier this year.
Sep 16, 2015
The Airbus Beluga XL program has passed the latest maturity gate milestone, marking the end of the “concept phase,” or design freeze “at aircraft level.”
Sep 16, 2015
Sichuan Airlines plans to operate 24 Airbus A320neo aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney PW1100G geared turbofan (GTF) engines.
Sep 16, 2015
An Air France pilot has reported a debris sighting just off the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where a part of the Boeing 777-200 that operated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was found on July 29.
Sep 16, 2015
The Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) has won orders for 10 150-seat C919s and 10 ARJ21 regional aircraft from Thailand’s City Airways and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Leasing Co. (ICBC).
Sep 16, 2015
Embraer Commercial Aviation forecasts that China will take delivery of 1,020 new 70- to 130-seat aircraft in the next 20 years.