All air transport news – Page 967
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NTSB issues urgent recommendations for CF6 engines
Cargo airlines are likely to be the worst hit by urgent safety recommendations issued by the US National Transportation Safety Board affecting older General...
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ILA: Northrop-led team ready to submit final offer for NATO AGS
An international team led by Northrop Grumman will submit its final proposal for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance programme this week ...
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Boeing resumes 787 structural deliveries
Boeing has restarted 787 final assembly following a 24-manfacturing-day hold on deliveries of aircraft structure to final assembly.
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ILA: Hamburg presents winning strategy
Representatives of Hamburg's aviation industry have descended on the capital to present the strategy that brought success in a nationwide "leading-edge cluster"...
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ILA: Aerotec on course to meet A350 XWB targets
Premium Aerotec is "100%" on time and on-quality to deliver key A350 XWB fuselage sections to parent Airbus, starting next May or early...
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ILA: Emirates seals another huge A380 order
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates sealed a landmark agreement with Airbus for another 32 A380s less than 24h before unveiling the eye-popping order.
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ILA: Air Berlin celebrates golden jubilee delivery
Air Berlin reached a fleet milestone yesterday when it took delivery of its 50th Airbus A320 family aircraft. The jubilee aircraft is an A320 configured...
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ILA: TAM splashes out on more A320s and A350s
TAM Airlines, which is a customer for three out of the four Airbus types, ordered more Airbus A320s and A350 XWBs yesterday at the show but will not add...
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Large jet production boon expected: Forecast International
Nearly 12,000 large commercial jet aircraft will be produced during the 10-year period through 2019, as Airbus and Boeing show signs of increasing production...
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ILA: Turkish deal a delight for Rockwell Collins
Turkish Airlines has awarded Rockwell Collins a contract to provide avionics systems for new Airbus and Boeing aircraft it will start to receive next year. The...
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ILA: Invest Quebec plays matchmaker in Europe
It may be home to industry behemoths Bombardier, Pratt & Whitney and CAE, but mention Quebec or Canada to many people in Europe and bears and forests spring...
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ANA targets first 787 commercial flight in January 2011
Launch customer All Nippon Airways aims to begin Boeing 787 commercial services on its Japanese domestic network as early as January, following delivery...
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TAM to order 20 additional A320s and five more A350s
Brazil's TAM has announced plans to order 20 additional Airbus A320 family aircraft and five additional Airbus A350-900s.
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PICTURE: Superjet completes water ingestion trials
The Sukhoi Superjet 100 has completed runway water ingestion trials at the company's test centre in Zhukovsky near Moscow.
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Air China's rising star
Ameco Beijing's executive director says 2010 'will be a good year for third-party MROs'
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ILA: Airbus A320 P2F certification date slips into 2012
Airbus Freighter Conversion (AFC) has pushed back the target certification date for its A320 passenger-to-freighter conversion programme from late in 2011 to mid-2012 to provide more time to complete engineering work on the project.
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Spotlight on: Embraer's Fred Curado
For a chief executive approaching a major fork in the road, Fred Curado is surprisingly calm. Curado, who recently completed his third year at the...
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Emirates to have 90 A380s in 2017
Emirates is to take delivery of all 90 of its Airbus A380s by 2017, confirming that the additional 32 ordered today will not be replacements for earlier aircraft.
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ILA: All go for EADS algae demo
Airbus parent EADS (hall 7, stand 100) is to make an environmental breakthrough at ILA by flying an aircraft powered by a biofuel composed purely of algae.
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General aviation in brief
ARAMCO AW139s AgustaWestland has delivered three more AW139 medium twin-engine helicopters...