Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Feb 21, 2018
Long-haul LCC AirAsia X is targeting further fleet and network growth this year, supported by healthy improvement in the carrier’s financial performance.
Feb 20, 2018
Air France-KLM has started looking at how it could expand formerly loss-making Transavia France’s fleet beyond the 40 aircraft it is limited to by an agreement with labor unions. It hopes the subsidiary could help it stave off intensifying competition from other LCCs in the French market.
Feb 20, 2018
Airbus has delivered the first production A350-1000 to launch customer Qatar Airways on Feb. 20.
Feb 18, 2018
An Aseman Airlines ATR 72 crashed in Iran in the early hours of Feb 18; there are no reports of survivors among the 66 people on board, but the wreckage is in difficult-to-access mountainous terrain.
Feb 17, 2018
UK company European Aviation (EA) has agreed to a deal with Etihad Airways to buy 10 of the Abu Dhabi airline’s recently retired Airbus A340s.
Jun 15, 2022
Anticipating the arrival of hydrogen-powered airliners in 2035, Air Liquide and Paris airports operator Groupe ADP have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create a 50:50 engineering joint venture to help develop hydrogen infrastructure at airports.
Jun 15, 2022
Airbus embarked on the flight test program for the A321XLR, a project that is expected to last around one year and 1,000 flight hours, with the first flight of MSN 11000, the first flight test aircraft, on June 15.
Jun 15, 2022
Norway has canceled its NH90 program and is demanding a refund after struggling with availability of the naval variant.
Jun 14, 2022
Airline information technology provider SITA is to supply its Smart Path biometric identity management technology as a component of the passenger journey through vertiports to be developed by the UK’s Skyports.
Jun 14, 2022
Boeing delivered just seven 737 MAXs from its stored inventory last month, the third consecutive monthly decline. New-build delivery trends have been better, but not much.
Jun 14, 2022
Panasonic Avionics hopes that the lower weight of its new seatback connectivity system means that it will be installed on regional aircraft and narrowbodies as well as IFE systems’ more traditional home of widebody platforms.
Jun 14, 2022
Long-range narrowbodies are destined to retreat to a relatively narrow range of routes once the market recovers sufficiently for widebody fleets to fully return to service, an audience at AIX heard June 14.
Jun 13, 2022
The Netherlands’ government has backed a Dutch consortium’s plan to develop a hydrogen-electric propulsion system for retrofit into 40-80-seat regional turboprops.