Qatar Airways has commenced the first commercial operation with the Airbus A350, its initial aircraft having departed from Doha for Frankfurt.
The airline confirms that the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered A350-900 is en route. It is operating as flight QR67 and left the Qatari capital at around 08:00.
Qatar Airways took delivery of the aircraft (A7-ALA), one of 80 A350s the carrier has on order, on 22 December.
Source: Cirium Dashboard
Panama’s Copa Airlines has cut four destinations from its network and again pushed back fleet growth plans due to a shortage of new jets from Boeing.
The Federal Aviation Administration intends to require airlines to inspect horizontal stabiliser hardware on Boeing 787s due to components possibly being assembled incorrectly by the company during manufacturing.
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