Air Transport Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 04, 2013
Airbus delivered 151 aircraft in the second quarter of 2013, consisting of 119 A320 family aircraft, 28 A330s and four A380s. Boeing made 164 commercial aircraft deliveries during the second quarter, comprised of 111 737 NGs, six 747s, eight 767s, 23 777s and 16 787s.
Jul 04, 2013
China’s Hainan Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The delivery is the first of 10 787s for Hainan Airlines. Hainan vice chairman Mu Weigang said the 787 would allow the carrier to open new routes from Beijing to North America. Hainan will first operate the Dreamliner on a domestic route from Beijing to Haikou before deploying it on North American routes, increasing the frequency of its Beijing-Seattle, Beijing-Toronto and Beijing-Chicago services, with several new destinations.
Jul 04, 2013
Tunisian carrier Syphax Airlines has converted its memorandum of understanding (MOU) for three Airbus A320neos and three A320ceos into a firm order.
Jul 03, 2013
Air Baltic CEO Martin Gauss has told ATW he will make a final call on whether to exercise the Latvian carrier’s 10 Bombardier CSeries options and take a CSeries simulator next year.
Jul 03, 2013
UK leisure carrier Monarch Airlines will take a pair of new Airbus A321-200s on long-term lease from Air Lease Corp. (ALC).
Dec 22, 2017
The gas turbine continues to evolve and advance, even as interest accelerates in alternate propulsion concepts.
Dec 22, 2017
Much work needs to be done electric-powered aircraft, looking toward the day they will be cleared to fly in national airspace.
Dec 21, 2017
The No. 1 and No. 3 makers of large commercial aircraft, Boeing and Embraer, are in talks to formally align, although the Brazilian government appears to be the main hurdle, the companies and financial analysts said Dec. 21.
Dec 21, 2017
Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) has flown its Superjet SSJ100 regional jet for the first time with its new wingtip configuration.
Dec 21, 2017
Dubai-based hybrid carrier flydubai firmed its order for 175 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft—including options for an additional 50 MAXs—Dec. 21, a $27 billion list price booking that Boeing claims as the “largest single-aisle order [by number of aircraft and total value] in Middle East history.”
Dec 21, 2017
The US Commerce Department Dec. 20 announced final tariff amounts in its investigation of exports of 100- 150-seat commercial aircraft from Canada.
Dec 21, 2017
UK LCC easyJet has transferred 28 aircraft to its new mainland Europe-based airline, easyJet Europe, as part of its contingency plans for the UK’s exit from the EU (Brexit).