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United has formalized a commitment originally announced in December 2009, signing a firm order for 25 A350-900 XWB aircraft, the newest twin-engine widebody from Airbus. The aircraft will be powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines. Deliveries of the aircraft will begin in 2016 and run through 2019.


City Airline, based in Gothenburg, Sweden, operates with five Embraer 145 and will extend the fleet to at least double this figure. In addition, the c...
Lufthansa Technik AG and Spanair have further intensified their long lasting cooperation. The existing Total Technical Support TTS-agreement for the S...
JorAMCo has successfully completed heavy maintenance work on an Italian registered Airbus A330 operated by Italy's Air One; the airline is part of Ali...
GKN Aerospace has been selected by BAE SYSTEMS as a Strategic Supplier for the manufacture of an extensive range of composite and metallic structures ...
Skytech-AIC, an independent, UK-based aircraft lessor, marketing agent and asset manager, has been mandated by A/S Maersk Aviation Holding to market t...
EGYPTAIR and leasing company GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) took delivery of the first Boeing 777-300ER (Extended Range) commercial jetliner to ...
The second Boeing 787 Dreamliner, ZA002, landed in Victorville, Calif. This marks the beginning of the first flight-test operations outside of Washing...
Austrian Airlines reported that traffic increased 1.7% in February 2010 compared to the previous year, capacity fell by 3.1%, while the load factor for the month improved 3.4 pts t...
Aeronautical Engineers, Inc. (AEI), has finalized an agreement to license Boeing engineering data to develop MD-80 passenger-to-freighter conversions. AEI will become a Supplementa...
Effective March 22, Sid Ashworth will serve as Vice President of GE Aviation's Washington, D.C. operations. Ashworth has more than 25 years experience in the legislative and execut...
AWAS has delivered a Boeing 737-700 to Aerovías de Integración Regional (AIRES) of Colombia. The delivery of this aircraft brings to four the number of AWAS 737-700s operated by AI...
EADS reported that 2009 revenues stood at EUR 42.8 billion (FY 2008: EUR 43.3 billion), supported by record commercial aircraft deliveries at Airbus (498 units compared to 483 in 2...
Bombardier announced that, due to the current unfavourable conditions in the debt capital markets, it has decided to withdraw its proposed institutional private placement of new se...
Airbus will increase the monthly production rate for its single-aisle A320 Family from the current rate of 34 to 36, starting December 2010. The production rate for the long-range ...
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a $75 million MissionCare contract by the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). Under the eleven-month contract, which includes four option years, l...
Parker Hannifin announced that Rolls-Royce has exercised its option to add Parker Aerospace's heat management valves to the pneumatics package it already supplies on the Trent XWB ...
Hawaiian Airlines announced the purchase of an additional Airbus A330-200 scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2011. With this announcement, Hawaiian is now acquiring 10...
Northrop Grumman is adding momentum to Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc.'s (TAI) readiness to build complete center fuselages for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft by teaching its eng...
Republic Airways has signed a purchase agreement with Bombardier Aerospace for 40 CSeries aircraft with options on up to 40 additional aircraft. The twin-engined airliner is exclus...
Effective March 9th, François Tarel has been named Executive Vice President of Aircelle, Safran Group. François Tarel is an engineering graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Na...
ONUR AIR, based in Istanbul, Turkey, leased three used Airbus A330-300 aircraft from ILFC. The aircraft, MSN 98, 143 and 72, are scheduled for delivery in April and June 2010. The ...
Angelo Quabba has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of SR Technics and Member of the Group’s Executive Leadership Team (ELT). He assumed his new position on March 1, 201...
Customer Nations and EADS have come to a principle agreement regarding the A400M military transport aircraft with the intention to amend the original contract accordingly in the co...
Willis Lease Finance Corporation reported strong revenues, net income and earnings per share in 2009, reflecting continued growth in its lease portfolio, higher maintenance reserve...
Pemco World Air Services (”Pemco”) signed an agreement with JetBlue Airways to upgrade airline seats for JetBlue’s 110-strong A320 Airbus passenger fleet. In addition, the company ...
TRAX USA announced a new partnership with Gulf Air, the national airline of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The international carrier has selected TRAX Maintenance Software, to manage thei...
Boeing and Turkish Airlines have finalized an order for 20 Next-Generation 737 airplanes. The order includes 10 737-800s and 10 737-900ER (Extended Range) airplanes. The 737-900ER ...
Ryanair announced it will open its 41st base at Malta in May 2010 with one based aircraft and 19 routes (6 of which will be new). Ryanair’s new Maltese base will deliver up to 800,...
Norwegian reported that traffic in February 2010 increased by 28%, while capacity increased 32%. The load factor for the month fell by 2 pts to 76%....
Lufthansa Group generated revenue of EUR 22.3 billion according to preliminary figures, around 10% less than the previous year (EUR 24.8 billion). The Group achieved its target of ...
British Airways reported that traffic in February 2010 rose by 1.1% compared to February 2009 while capacity was down 1.9%. This resulted in a passenger load factor increase of 2....
AWAS has delivered a Boeing 737-700 to Eastar Jet. This is the second 737-700 which AWAS has leased Eastar Jet, the first was delivered in June of last year. This aircraft will ope...
At the end of January 2010 RUAG Aerospace Services GmbH in Oberpfaffenhofen got the official approval by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as production organization of th...
Pratt & Whitney has achieved initial service release (ISR) for the conventional take off and landing/carrier variant (CTOL/CV) F135 engine, marking another major milestone as the e...
A China Southern Airlines Airbus A319 has successfully completed validation flights at Lhasa Gonggar Airport, China for tailored Performance-based Navigation (PBN) procedures devel...
The ATR 42-600 pre-series aircraft successfully took to the sky for the first time on March 4th in Toulouse. The aircraft, powered with Pratt & Whitney 127M engines, completed a 2-...
Southwest Airlines announced that traffic in February 2010 decreased 2.3% from February 2009, capacity decreased 8.7% from the February 2009 level and the load factor for the month...

 

 

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