Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jan 09, 2009
A year that featured soaring fuel prices, a slumping global economy and a 58-day machinist strike ended with 662 net commercial aircraft orders for Boeing, a steep drop from the record 1,413 garnered in 2007. The 662 orders is the eighth-highest annual total on record for Boeing. The 737NG again was the manufacturer's most popular model with 484 net orders. It sold 93 787s, "primarily [to] Middle East customers," as well as 54 777s, 28 767-300ERs and three 747-8Is.
Jan 09, 2009
Saudi Arabian LCC Nas Air took delivery of three new 110-seat E-190s from Embraer, the Arab Air Carriers Org. reported. Nas now operates 14 aircraft and signed a maintenance support agreement covering them with Lufthansa Technik.
Jan 08, 2009
Airstream International Group was named as exclusive agent to offer for sale or lease one BAe 146-200 and one -300 on behalf of Tronos Ltd. Aircraft most recently were operated by Flightline Ltd. on behalf of BA CityFlyer.
Jan 08, 2009
Joint US/Australia naval communications base in Exmouth, Western Australia, is not to blame for two air data inertial reference unit failures on Qantas A330s (ATWOnline, Jan. 6), according to the base manager. Russell Levine told The Sydney Morning Herald that it was "highly, highly unlikely" that radio signals from the base could scramble a commercial aircraft's navigation systems because the two use completely different frequency bands. Levine said the very low frequency signals from the Harold E.
Jan 07, 2009
Continental Airlines 737-500 that crashed on takeoff at Denver last month suffered a ruptured fuel tank in the right wing (ATWOnline, Dec. 23, 2008), causing fuel to spill onto the engine, National Transportation Safety Board investigators said, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
Jul 02, 2015
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.
Jul 01, 2015
There was a distinctly mellow feel to the Paris Air Show as Airbus and Boeing’s record backlogs inevitably started to pinch the sales.
Jul 01, 2015
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.
Jun 30, 2015
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Jun 30, 2015
Embraer is to seek steep-approach certification for its E190-E2, although the other two E2 family members are not currently slated for the approval.
Jun 30, 2015
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.