For Boeing current order is the third in the amount during entire history and the second in number of airplanes. Together both transactions make the biggest order from commercial air carrier (previous record belonged to American Airlines that in 2011 placed order for 460 airplanes). US president Joe Biden named this transaction historic one and declared that it will provide more than million jobs in…
Airline company Air India placed order with Boeing and Airbus for 470 new airplanes of various modifications – this is record transaction for aviation industry. In such a way company plans to become one of the biggest air carriers in the world. The head of the Indian group of companies Tata Natarajan Chandrasekaran (Tata owns Air India) declared that transactions will allow company to upgrade…
Emirates success with the airplanes A380 has to do not only with recovery of tourist industry. Airline company faced problems caused by delays in deliveries of Boeing 777X – last version of the wide-body airplane B777 equipped with folding wing tips and engines GE9X. Airplane was engineered more fuel efficient and with bigger flying range than its predecessor that makes it requested for the airline…
In 2019 Airbus company announced discontinuation of production of wide-body airplane as it wasn’t able to compete in volume of the sales with Boeing 787 and own A350 – two-engine airplanes with good fuel efficiency. Airline companies started to withdraw A380 from their fleets due to lack of demand from passengers and high operating costs. Then COVID-19 pandemic came that caused collapse of the tourist…
Indian airline company Air India Ltd signed agreement of intent to acquire from European aviation company Airbus SE 250 airplanes, informs Bloomberg agency. Agreement provides delivery of 210 airplanes of A320neo model and 40 wide-body A350, chairman of board of directors of Tata Group Natarajan Chandrasekaran said during online-event. In the event also participated president of France Emmanuel Macron and Indian prime-minister Narendra Modi. In…
It is faster than expected. Chinese press media inform that airplane of local production COMAC C919 manufactured for the airline company China Eastern Airlines will start making commercial flights already on February 28th. China Eastern Airlines confirmed this but precised that certain time wasn’t determined as of yet. However, Air Travel application already contains information about the flight that has to depart from Shanghai at…
European aviation company Airbus and airline company Qatar Airways have settled lawsuits and restored major contracts. Airbus and Qatar Airways agreed on reasonable for both parties resolution of the dispute about quality degradation of the painting layer of wide-body composite airplanes A350 in the fleet of Qatar airline company that will allow manufacturer to restore healthy business relations with one of the most important clients….
German airline company Lufthansa and French-Dutch airline company Air France-KLM conduct negotiations about acquisition of bankrupt Britain domestic air carrier Flybe, informs The Telegraph with the reference to own sources. As newspaper marks external management of the company may sell business to Lufthansa and Air France-KLM during several days. Britain Flybe announced bankruptcy on January 28th at the same time cancelling all scheduled flights and…
Britain low-cost airline company on January 28th announced termination of the flights and cancellation of all routes. “With regret we inform that Flybe is announced bankrupt”, – the airline company wrote in Twitter, adding that company’s activity was suspended, all flights cancelled and will not be rescheduled. United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority asked passengers who acquired tickets on Flybe routes not to come to the…
American aviation company Boeing on January 31st has delivered the last produced aircraft of 747 model to the customer – American freight airline company Atlas Air. The ceremony of handing over the airplane at Boeing factory in Washington state was broadcasted on the company’s web-site. Ceremony attended factory employees, top-managers of the aviation industry and Hollywood actor John Travolta. The last 1574th Boeing 747 was…