All air transport news – Page 475
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Domhnal Slattery, chief executive, Avolon
Avolon chief executive Domhnal Slattery's career to date features an impressive list of achievements over a relatively short period of time. "I've been extremely lucky in my aircraft financing career to have started and built two of the top five [aircraft leasing firms] from acorns," he tells FlightGlobal at the ...
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Opinion
OPINION: Market looks rosy, but beware the unknown
If Boeing intended to antagonise Airbus ahead of the annual order tussle, it chose to tweak the European airframer’s most sensitive nerve.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: No golden goal for A380 in China
Airbus is wooing China, hoping that the soon-to-be world's largest aviation market will order some A380s and breathe new life into the ailing programme.
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News
Contract documents reveal plans for Russia's new widebody engine
A newly-signed contract discloses key details of Russia’s design goals for the country’s first high-bypass gas turbine engine in the 75,000lb-thrust power class launched on 19 January to support the CRAIC CR929 widebody, Ilyushin Il-96-400 and several military projects.
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Opinion
OPINION: Leahy leaves lasting legacy with Emirates deal
Any doubts that the future of Airbus’s flagship product was genuinely under threat were demolished by the blunt assessment from outgoing head salesman John Leahy. If Emirates did not buy more, the A380 programme was finished, he said.
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News
StandardAero to service RB211 engines
Rolls-Royce has recruited US maintenance specialist StandardAero as a support provider for the RB211-535E4 engines which power Boeing 757s.
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Bombardier progressing with Alabama CSeries site plans
Bombardier has already made "significant" progress towards opening an Alabama CSeries final assembly site that will closely resemble the company's Mirabel assembly facility.
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: Emirates offers critical lifeline to A380
Emirates' decision to take up to 36 more Airbus A380s offers life-support to a programme at a point when the airframer had been openly talking about the possibility of its closure.
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News
PD-14 fan undergoes bird-strike testing
Russian analysts have conducted bird-strike tests on the fan for the Aviadvigatel PD-14, the second engine option for the Irkut MC-21.
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News
Singapore looks to transform local aerospace sector
Singapore has reaffirmed its commitment to further developing the country's aerospace industry with the launch of a new Aerospace Industry Transformation Map (ITM) on 17 January.
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News
US trade staff issue final report before Bombardier-Boeing ruling
The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has released a detailed report that reviews arguments on both sides of the Boeing-Bombardier trade dispute and provides a basis on which commissioners will decide if Bombardier's CSeries sale to Delta Air Lines harmed Boeing.
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News
Boeing forms joint venture with automotive seating supplier
Boeing will form a joint venture with automotive seating supplier Adient to develop a new line of seating for aircraft cabins, addressing a critical gap in supplier capacity as the industry continues to ramp-up production through at least 2020.
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New Boeing data shows 4.6% employment decline in 2017
Boeing slashed overall employment by 4.6% over the course of 2017 as jobs declined faster than a projected reduction in overall sales, newly-released company data shows.
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Embraer almost doubles net firm orders in 2017
Embraer received 86 net firm orders for commercial aircraft in 2017, almost doubling the 45 net orders it logged in 2016.
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News
Sabena Technics to build Toulouse widebody paint line
Airbus has engaged French maintenance specialist Sabena Technics to build a fourth aircraft painting facility at the airframer's production line in Toulouse.
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Airbus chief Enders condemns protectionism and Brexit
Airbus chief executive Tom Enders last night launched a blistering attack on "protectionism" in the aerospace and aviation industries, linking the election of US president Donald Trump and the 2016 UK vote to leave the European Union as moves that could damage free trade and aircraft manufacturing on both sides ...
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Analysis
ANALYSIS: MRO providers build up 787 capabilities as fleet matures
Before the Boeing 787 arrived for its first maintenance check, engineers at Air France-KLM’s technical division knew servicing the highly computerised aircraft would require a new set of IT skills and services.
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News
A350 stretch would need further engine evolution: Bregier
Airbus is likely to reconsider a stretched A350 concept only after a further evolution of engine technology, reiterating that there is no clear demand for a larger version.
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News
Conair boosts Q400 order book with deal for six tankers
Aerial firefighting firm Conair has ordered six new-build Bombardier Q400s that will be used as multirole aerial firefighting aircraft.
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Airbus says A380 challenge in China is 'commercial'
Airbus says China is aware that it is open to industrial co-operation on the A380, but the challenge is convincing the country's airlines that they can do well commercially with the superjumbo.