Archive for December 2015
Boeing expects 777X orders from India in 2-3 years
Boeing says Indian carriers will not be “at the front end of the programme” for its 777X, but expects discussions for the type to feature more prominently in two to three years. Speaking to Flightglobal, Dinesh Keskar, senior vice-president of sales in Asia Pacific and India, says this is because the country’s only two widebody…
Read MoreEmirates airline goes on shopping spree
Emirates airline, based in Dubai, will add 36 brand new aircraft next year. Emirates is the largest customer for the world’s largest passenger aircraft. The airline presently serves the East African airports of Entebbe – once a day, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam – both twice a day, using Boeing B777 aircraft. Amid murmurs from…
Read MoreAirbus’ A380 is awarded Best Aircraft Type in a major passenger survey
The Airbus A380 has been named Best Aircraft as U.S. publication Global Traveler held their annual awards night. It is also the first time the Best Aircraft Type distinction was won by a non-Boeing airline. More than a decade after its maiden flight, the popularity of Airbus’ A380 has never been higher among airline passengers…
Read MoreUnited could add up to 50 100-seat aircraft
United Airlines executives have told analysts that they anticipate a fleet of 25 to 50 mainline aircraft with around 100 seats. The Chicago-based carrier would need at least 25 and up to 50 of the aircraft in order for such a fleet to “make sense given the added complexity associated with training, spares provisioning and…
Read MoreTwo ATC agencies ‘blacklist’ 787 over position-data flaw
Most of the Boeing 787s delivered to date contain a software defect that, in at least five identified aircraft, have erroneously reported their location to controllers, prompting two air traffic management agencies to put the Dreamliner on a “blacklist” for certain services. Although it denies the software defect creates a safety hazard, Boeing says a…
Read MoreBoeing books $1.1 billion in orders, races to hit sales target
Boeing Co booked 11 new jetliner orders worth about $1.1 billion at list prices on Thursday, leaving it with about 180 more sales to land this month to meet its 2015 target. The world’s largest plane maker also affirmed that orders will roughly equal the 755-760 jetliners it had expected to deliver to customers this…
Read MoreAsian jet builders up their game, pushing Boeing
The trend toward Asian-built aircraft is accelerating, potentially putting more pressure on Boeing from the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Honda this week became the latest Asian manufacturer to take a place in the sky, with its HondaJet business aircraft winning certification from the FAA. The step follows a flurry of recent activity, including…
Read MoreBoeing’s first 737 MAX rolls off production line
Boeing has completed the assembly of its first 737 MAX, after construction began earlier this year. The MAX 8 model is the first of the new family, which will be cheaper to run, more comfortable and more efficient than the first Next-Generation 737. It rolled off the production line on November 30. Named the “Spirit…
Read MoreMRJs to fly all J-Air routes in future, JAL chairman says
Japan Airlines Co. plans to replace all aircraft flown by domestic subsidiary J-Air Corp. with the new fuel-efficient Mitsubishi Regional Jet. Chairman Masaru Onishi explained the move in a recent interview with Kyodo News, saying the swap-out could be complete just over a decade from now. J-Air primarily serves routes linking Osaka and Sapporo with…
Read MoreBoeing 787 projections for coming year heat up
With one month left to go, Boeing Co. already has met its 787 delivery goal for 2015. The aerospace giant brought 126 Dreamliners to customers through the first 11 months of this year, more than its stated goal of 120 deliveries for the entire year. The total beats the previous delivery record of 114 set…
Read MoreAirbus is Beating Boeing in This Key Area
Airbus has sold more than 1,000 aircraft in the first 11 months of this year, making the European aerospace giant more or less a lock to win its annual order competition with rival Boeing. But with deliveries lagging, Airbus will almost certainly fail to meet its production targets for 2015, letting Boeing hold onto the…
Read MoreEgyptAir to Acquire 8 New Boeing Planes
State-run flag carrier EgyptAir has signed a preliminary agreement with global aircraft leasing company BOC Aviation to acquire eight new planes that would make the fleet average lifetime for the aviation company eight years. The new planes, for which a final agreement will be signed in a few days, would be delivered in the second…
Read MoreAirbus Jetliner Orders Top 1,000 Through November
Airbus Group SE on Monday said it has booked more than 1,000 jetliner orders in the first 11 months of 2015, though it faced a high bar to meet its commitment for plane deliveries this year. Airbus, in its monthly update on business, said it had delivered 556 jetliners this year through November after shipping…
Read MoreMexico buys 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft from Russia
Mexico has acquired 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft from Russia, Ruben Beltran, the Mexican ambassador to Russia, said on Friday. “We see great prospects for cooperation with Russia in all areas. For example, Mexico has just bought 30 Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft,” – Beltran said. He did not disclose any details of the purchase. The…
Read MoreBoeing to Roll Out 737 Max Jetliner With Little Fanfare
Boeing will roll out the first of its 737 Max jetliners this week with none of the fanfare that accompanied previous launches such as the 787 Dreamliner, even though the company’s success is just as intricately tied to the fortunes of the new plane. The Dreamliner launch in 2007 attracted 15,000 guests, video feeds to…
Read MoreBoeing 787 projections for coming year heat up
With one month left to go, Boeing Co. already has met its 787 delivery goal for 2015. The aerospace giant brought 126 Dreamliners to customers through the first 11 months of this year, more than its stated goal of 120 deliveries for the entire year. The total beats the previous delivery record of 114 set…
Read MoreEmbraer Forecasts 9,100 Bizjets Worth $259B over Decade
Embraer Executive Jets’ recently released 10-year demand forecast for business jets predicts sales of 9,100 aircraft worldwide worth $259 billion. This represents a modest annual growth rate of 3 percent, as well as a slight increase in deliveries compared with the previous decade, at 8,190 business jet shipments worth $198 billion. Once again the North…
Read MoreDreamliners don’t crack: Boeing 787 survives fatigue testing
A Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s carbon composite structure can take the punishment of a lifetime — three times over. That’s the result of a five-year fatigue test of the third 787 built, which has been through a mechanized stress test mimicking more than 160,000 take-offs and landing. This is more than 3.6 times the design life…
Read MoreWill Boeing Co 787-10’s New BluePrint Help It Out Shine
On December 3, 2015, Boeing Co announced the completion of its 787-10 Dreamliner’s detailed design. The process got accomplished two weeks ahead of the schedule and gave ample room to the aircraft manufacturer to gather better procurement equipment. The assembly of new plane will start in 2016, with first flight out in 2017. The delivery…
Read MoreUS, Canadian Aviation Industries Start Aircraft Biofuel Project: Boeing
The US aviation industry is cooperating with partners in Canada to produce sustainable biofuel for aircraft obtained from forest residues, Boeing aviation company said in a press release on Wednesday. “Boeing, the University of British Columbia and SkyNRG, with support from Canada’s aviation industry and other stakeholders, are collaborating to turn leftover branches, sawdust and…
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