Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Sep 30, 2014
Rapid developments in electric vehicles and driverless cars have some in aviation wondering whether the long-awaited age of personal air vehicles and on-demand air taxis is finally on the horizon.
Sep 29, 2014
Etihad Airways has debuted its first Boeing 787 Saturday in its just-introduced new livery and confirmed plans to deploy the type on six routes linking its Abu Dhabi hub and three continents by mid-2015.
Sep 29, 2014
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft resumed flight testing of its CSeries aircraft Sept. 7 with flight test vehicle two (FTV2) taking to the air at the…
Sep 26, 2014
Lessor Macquarie AirFinance has provided a welcome boost for Bombardier’s CSeries airliner with an order for 40 of the larger CS300 model plus 10 options.
Sep 26, 2014
Eastern Air Lines Group, a Miami-based startup trying to revive the iconic airline brand, has ordered 20 Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. MRJ90s with 20 options.
Feb 14, 2019
Etihad Airways is in talks to drop large parts of its orders for Airbus and Boeing widebodies, in an effort to reduce growth and stem losses.
Feb 14, 2019
Airbus announced Feb. 14 it is terminating the Airbus A380 program in 2021, after Emirates cut back the last major order to just 14 more A380s, instead of the 53 it had on firm order.
Feb 13, 2019
EASA test pilots have completed the first session of certification flights on Irkut’s MC-21-300 narrowbody, the aircraft manufacturer said Feb. 13.
Feb 11, 2019
Boeing and Spirit AeroSystems, a subassembly provider to Boeing 737 and other commercial programs, are practicing for a narrowbody production rate of 57 aircraft a month in Wichita, Kansas.
Feb 11, 2019
An aging fleet of widebody aircraft in the Middle East and the need to refresh them will drive higher than average maintenance and engineering growth in the region, according to Boeing.
Feb 11, 2019
Safety and noise are the public’s biggest concerns about urban air mobility (UAM), but initial acceptance of the concept is surprisingly high, a public perception survey conducted by Airbus has concluded.
Feb 08, 2019
Air Senegal is set to take delivery of its first of two Airbus A330neos soon, and is targeting using its home base at Dakar Blaise-Diagne International Airport as a hub for Western Africa.