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FARNBOROUGH: CFM to certify step decrease in 737 fuel burn by end July
CFM International says it will certificate its upgraded CFM56-7BE engine for the Next Generation Boeing 737 with the US Federal Aviation Administration and European Aviation Safety Agency by the end of July, replacing the existing -7B engine on the Boeing production line by mid-2011.
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FARNBOROUGH: GECAS orders 60 A320s and 40 737-800s
GE Commercial Aviation Services has been on a narrowbody spending spree, signing firm commitments for 60 Airbus A320s and 40 Boeing 737-800s.
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FARNBOROUGH: Norwegian leans towards 787 for long-haul
Scandinavian budget carrier Norwegian, which today ordered 15 additional Boeing 737-800s, will make a fleet decision for its planned long-haul operation...
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FARNBOROUGH: Airliner markets return, but only slowly
Airbus and Boeing have arrived at the Farnborough air show with backlogs still close to historic highs, despite the dramatic fall in new net orders that has followed the credit crunch.
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FARNBOROUGH: Azul orders five more Embraer 195s
Azul orders five more Embraer 195s Brazilian carrier Azul has signed a firm deal for a further five Embraer 195s, taking its total commitment to 41...
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FARNBOROUGH: Parker Aerospace signs agreement with Rolls-Royce
Parker Aerospace, a business segment of Parker Hannifin and a provider of motion and control technologies, is inking a risk and revenue sharing agreement...
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FARNBOROUGH: GECAS orders 60 A320s
GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) has signed a firm order for 60 additional Airbus A320s. The deal increases to 99 GE's backlog of A320-family...
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FARNBOROUGH: New lessor ALC orders 51 Airbus narrowbodies
Steven Udvar-Hazy's new aircraft financing and leasing company Air Lease Corporation (ALC) has placed a firm order for 51 Airbus A320 family aircraft. The...
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FARNBOROUGH: Boeing boosts forecast but remains downbeat on very large aircraft demand
Boeing has significantly increased its long-term airliner delivery forecast on the back of a big jump in expected demand for single-aisle aircraft. However,...
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FARNBOROUGH: Why Boeing 'won’t play' Airbus’s air show orders game
As the show begins, Boeing has reiterated its position that it will not be playing the "orders race" game and announcing a raft of stored-up deals at Farnborough...
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FARNBOROUGH: Vince Cable comments on strength of UK aerospace
When the England football team flew home almost two weeks before the end of the World Cup they touched down at Heathrow in an Airbus A340-600.
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FARNBOROUGH: Embraer optimistic as regional forecast revealed
Embraer is at the show in an optimistic mood, hailing a better-than-expected recovery in market demand for its commercial aircraft.
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FARNBOROUGH: ATR expects 'about 50' sales this year
Filippo Bagnato is clearly delighted to be back at the helm of ATR. When he first took the chief executive's job, for three years from 2004, the situation...
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FARNBOROUGH: Loadmaster launches new Load and Trim service for operational documentations
Loadmasters, provider of aircraft weight and balance services, is launching a new load and trim service offering
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FARNBOROUGH: Alabama keeps fingers crossed over oil-spill impact
State of Alabama officials are keeping their fingers firmly crossed that the region's aerospace industry will remain unaffected by the BP oil spill, and that EADS will win the US Air Force's KC-X tanker contract and bring much-needed jobs to Mobile.
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NewsCustomers will lead re-engining decision: Airbus and Boeing
Airbus and Boeing say the market will drive their decision on whether to go ahead with single-aisle re-engining plans after Rolls-Royce urged them to concentrate on bringing all-new single-aisle replacements to the market more quickly.
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FARNBOROUGH: Midlands alliance champions innovation
The trail-blazing Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme (ATEP) run by the Midlands Aerospace Alliance (hall 1, stand B14) in the UK's traditional manufacturing...
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NewsAirbus needs 'paradigm shift' to achieve A380 delivery forecast: Boeing
Boeing may have significantly raised its 20-year delivery forecast in its latest current market outlook, but it continues to predict demand will remain flat in the 400-seat-plus sector, where the 747-8 competes with the larger Airbus A380.
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European alliance hopes boosted
EC approval for BA/Iberia merger and transatlantic joint venture cement oneworld partners' partnership aspirations
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Airbus and Boeing see orders rise, output fall during first half of 2010
The "big two" have enjoyed a much-improved sales performance during the first six months, as the momentum that Airbus and Boeing picked up in the second half of 2009 carried on into 2010.