Air France has introduced into service the first of eight Airbus A330-200s it has on order, initially on flights from Paris to Boston and Toronto. The General Electric CF6-80E1-powered aircraft features new seats, a lounge area and equipment for disabled passengers. The 211-seat twinjets are replacing Air France's Airbus A310s and Boeing 767-300ERs.
Source: Flight International
Comac’s ARJ21 has completed its first commercial flight from a high-altitude airport in China, the latest in a series of milestones for the regional jet.
Airbus’s framework agreement with Spirit AeroSystems shows that the aircraft manufacturer might yet acquire Scottish or Malaysian operations of Spirit if a third-party buyer does not emerge. Both Sprit’s Glasgow Prestwick division and its Subang airport arm in western Kuala Lumpur supply components for Airbus programmes. Neither has been included ...
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury admits that the airframer was not expecting to be negotiating an acquisition of key aircraft programmes from beleaguered US firm Spirit AeroSystems, but insists it is necessary and that Airbus is ready to absorb them.
