Qatar Airways has begun its short haul fleet update, with the delivery of the first of four new Airbus A320s leased from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise. The International Aero Engines V2500-powered aircraft are replacing four ageing Boeing 727-200s on regional services from Doha, begining with flights to Abu Dhabi on 2 March. The SALE aircraft will be joined by the first of up to 11 similar aircraft ordered directly from Airbus, beginning in 2001.
Source: Flight International
Aer Lingus’s first Airbus A321XLR has been flown to Dublin from the airframer’s Hamburg Finkenwerder plant – one of two being transferred to the Irish capital on the same day. The airline had originally been poised to be the first operator to receive the long-range twinjet variant. But this plan ...
Boeing has resumed production of two widebody programmes in the Pacific Northwest following the end of strike action by its machinists’ union last month.
Textron Aviation has secured type certification of its Cessna SkyCourier utility turboprop from Transport Canada Civil Aviation.
