All air transport news – Page 840
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Opinion
Comment: The future is big
Emirates is making serious money while EasyJet has its major shareholder worried. The difference between the two may have more to do with hardware than strategy
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EBACE: Honeywell makes progress with Legacy 450 and 500 turbofan
Honeywell is moving closer to certification of the new turbofan engine powering the Embraer Legacy 450 and 500 business jets.
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TAME and GE sign five-year CF34 maintenance deal
Ecuador's TAME and GE Aviation have signed a five-year OnPoint services deal for the maintenance of the carrier's General Electric CF34-10E engines, which...
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Boeing returns 777 line to seven per month
Boeing has returned 777 output to seven per month, marking the line's transition to the higher rate with the roll out of a 777 freighter. The company's...
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Aveos wins new maintenance business from Mexico’s interjet
Canadian aerospace services company Aveos has secured new business from Mexican carrier Interjet for the repair of Airbus A320 components. The five...
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EBACE: Graffiti artist adopts a new Vista
As a child, Marquis Lewis growing up in suburb of Los Angeles was fascinated by the gang graffiti that surrounded him.
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Engine incident grounds Poland's MiG-29 fleet
The in-flight shutdown of an RD-33 engine has led the Polish air force to temporarily ground its MiG-29 fighters ...
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Lifting hopes: new production freighters' prospects assessed
After a long period during which new freighters were rare, three new types have come along almost at once. How will these widebody cargo carriers change the sector?
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Cathay A330 turns back after engine stall warning
A Cathay Pacific Airways Airbus A330 turned back to Singapore Changi Airport on 16 May after a stall warning from one of its Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines.
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Russia eyes high-speed helicopters
Russia looks set to join Eurocopter and Sikorsky in the race to commercialise a high-speed helicopter, with the allocation of Rb3.6billion ($1.3 billion)...
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Spirit plans to monitor its fleet ramp-up
US low cost carrier Spirit Airlines has declared it intends to closely monitor its fleet ramp-up to 65 aircraft by year-end 2015 to "reduce the risk of overextension...
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Selex boosts unmanned portfolio with UTRI acquisition
Selex Galileo has announced that it is to acquire Italian mini- and micro-unmanned air system company UTRI ...
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Zodiac's SiT in talks with Boeing over seat-centric IFE for 787
Zodiac's SiT business has entered talks with Boeing in hopes of gaining linefit offerability for its seat-centric in-flight entertainment (IFE) system on...
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Airbus grows share of EADS sales
EADS's push to improve profitability got off to a shaky start this year, with a first-quarter pre-tax result €16 million ($22.9 million) in the red despite 10% sales growth, to €9.85 billion.
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Airbus more confident it can manage A320 production hike
Airbus could make a decision over increasing its single-aisle production rate within days after gaining confidence that it can manage the ramp-up in the...
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Airbus sticks to A350 schedule as first-quarter earnings rise
Airbus is sticking to its schedule of starting A350 XWB final assembly at the end of this year, with entry into service in the second half of 2013.
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Skywest to expand fleet with A320 and Fokker 100
Western Australian regional carrier Skywest has acquired an option from Avation Plc to lease an Airbus A320. This will be on an operating lease for...
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PWC: Roomier fuselage key for next generation turboprop
Pratt & Whitney Canada this summer will begin assembling portions of its next-generation turboprop engine in anticipation of a launch platform for a clean...
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787 fleet fitted with new software
Boeing's 787 fleet has been fully upgraded to operate the latest electrical system software that was developed following the fire aboard test aircraft ZA002 in November, the airframer has confirmed.
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2020 too late for Southwest 737 replacement
The end of the decade is "too long to wait" for an all-new aircraft to replace its ageing 737 Classics, according to Southwest Airlines.