Mexican start-up Azteca Airlines has received its first Boeing 737-700, on lease from Pegasus Aviation. Azteca began regional operations recently from Mexico City using two 737-300s leased from Bavaria, and will take its second 737-700 at the end of the month. The carrier plans to fly to Chihuahua, Cancun, and also between Monterrey and Cancun. US services are also planned.
Source: Flight International
Boeing has tweaked upward its 20-year aircraft-demand forecast, predicting airlines will need more jets than previously expected due to an extraordinarily large number of older aircraft that soon must be replaced.
Airbus’s A321XLR has initially been certified with a maximum take-off weight of 97t, but the airframer is working on approval for higher weights for the twinjet. This 97t figure is the same MTOW as the XLR’s immediate predecessor, the A321LR. The airframer had originally stated – when its unveiled the ...
Colorado-based Boom continues soldiering on, and chief executive and founder Blake Scholl insists the company will yet make good on its aim to have Overture carry paying passengers by around the end of this decade.
