UK budget carrier easyJet has placed an order with CFM International for 270 engines, comprising 200 LEAP-1A engines to power its Airbus A320neo family aircraft and 70 CFM56-5B engines to power additional A320ceo aircraft.
China’s Spring Airlines has selected CFM International's CFM56-5B engine to power 30 Airbus A320ceo aircraft, in an order valued more than $620 million at current list prices.
US Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption figures, organized by domestic, international and system totals, contrasted with figures from the previous month, a year ago, two years ago and five years ago.
US lessor Air Lease Corp. (ALC) became the launch customer for the Airbus A330neo Monday, signing a memorandum of understanding for 25 -900 variants at a list price of $6.9 billion and saying the price of the re-engined widebody could not be ignored.
Air Lease Corp. (ALC) signed an MOU for 25 Airbus A330-900neos at the Farnborough Airshow, becoming the first launch customer for the new Airbus widebody.
New Delhi-based Air India officially joined Star Alliance Friday, opening the world’s fifth-largest aviation market to the other 26 member airlines comprising the Star Alliance network.
Rolls-Royce is planning to use a modified Trent XWB engine to demonstrate technologies for its new Advance engine, which should be available for commercial service from 2020.
Iberia is looking to cut another 1,581 jobs—on top of the 3,100 redundancies it is already rolling out—under a consultation that was formally launched Friday.
Norwegian Air International’s (NAI) plan to serve the US is facing fresh opposition from another airline union and eight members of the Georgia Congressional delegation.
A US Government Accountability Office (GAO) report this week on widebody aircraft financing from the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) has renewed efforts by Delta Air Lines and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) to urge Congress to reform the institution.
Singapore’s Changi Airport could become a casualty of Etihad Airways’ new long-haul fleet expansion when the airline cuts its Changi stopover on one of its Australian routes next year.
Air India chairman and MD Rohit Nandan announced Thursday that when the carrier is formally integrated into the Star Alliance network, “our entire European operations, Asian Operations, [and] Pacific operations shall be through the Dreamliner.”
Newly minted central Asian airline Air Kazakhstan will begin flying the first of 10 Bombardier Q400 NGs in March 2015, with a $230 million price tag on the aircraft/operations deal.
Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic are eyeing technology-sharing opportunities as part of their joint venture, while Virgin’s SkyTeam plans continue to take a back seat.
Air Astana CEO Peter Foster believes his carrier could be ready for flotation within two to three years, generating extra capital for aircraft investment.
