Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 09, 2014
Dubai-based Emirates Airline has finalized its order for 150 Boeing 777Xs, previously announced at last November’s Dubai Airshow.
Jul 09, 2014
Qatar Airways has abandoned plans to bring its first Airbus A380 to next week’s Farnborough Airshow.
Jul 09, 2014
SIA Engineering Co. and Boeing have created a joint venture (JV) to provide fleet management services to airlines in Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Jul 08, 2014
Calgary’s WestJet is moving forward with plans to acquire four widebody aircraft for long-haul operations starting in late 2015.
Jul 08, 2014
Turkish regional airline Borajet has ratified an agreement to acquire four Embraer E-190s.
Nov 12, 2018
FAA has taken steps to resolve the causes of seven outages of its En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system since 2014, but the air traffic control (ATC) automation platform remains vulnerable, the US Transportation Department inspector general says in audit report released Nov. 9.
Nov 12, 2018
FAA has taken steps to resolve the causes of seven outages of its En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system since 2014, but the air traffic control (ATC) automation platform remains vulnerable, the US Transportation Department inspector general says in audit report released Nov. 9.
Nov 09, 2018
Air Tahiti Nui has taken the first step in its planned widebody fleet transition with the commercial debut of its first Boeing 787-9, which was delivered in early October.
Nov 09, 2018
France’s civil aviation authority the DGAC has seized a Ryanair aircraft at Bordeaux-Merignac airport in a bid to force the LCC to pay back public funds that were judged illegal by the European Commission (EC) in 2014.
Nov 09, 2018
The CR929 grew during concept design and did so one last time as its configuration was fixed in June, figures supplied by UAC reveal.
Nov 08, 2018
Rolls-Royce will replace turbine blades on some Trent 700 engines powering the Airbus A330 because of corrosion issues the company says are unrelated to the similar, but more widespread, problem affecting operators of Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s.
Nov 08, 2018
Latvian carrier airBaltic is planning to open its first aircraft bases outside of the Baltics after 2020 and is nearing a decision on its Airbus A220 options.
Nov 08, 2018
Southern African carrier Air Botswana has taken delivery of the first of two ATR 72-600 turboprops, which were ordered immediately before the Farnborough Air Show in July.