Thai regional carrier Bangkok Airways ordered four ATR 72-600s Feb. 7, making the French-Italian turboprop manufacturer the only company to score a new commercial aircraft order at the 2018 Singapore Air Show to date.

The All Nippon Airways (ANA) Group intends to use existing LCC brands Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air to launch its planned medium-haul, low-cost operation—with aircraft types still to be decided.

Risk areas such as weight extremes, center-of-gravity positions, buffet boundaries and stall performance have all been addressed through the ongoing Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ flight-test program.

Embraer has not yet received a proposal from Boeing for a possible combination of the manufacturers, Embraer Commercial Aviation president and CEO John Slattery said.

Airbus and Bombardier could have a final assembly line in the US up and running within a year of a go-ahead, but it remains undecided whether the CSeries jets ordered by Delta Air Lines will be produced there or in Canada, a senior Bombardier executive said.

The first production version of AECC’s engine, the CJ-1000A, is intended to nearly match the performance of the CFM Leap-1C.

Chinese aircraft manufacturer COMAC appears to be prepared for another delay in first delivery of the C919 airliner, saying it could be in 2021.

Only Rolls-Royce and GE Aviation are expected to respond, since Pratt & Whitney is concentrating on engines for narrowbody aircraft.