All articles by David Kaminski-Morrow – Page 304
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FARNBOROUGH: Show pushes Airbus net total to 380
Airbus has increased net orders this year to 380 aircraft following the close of business at the Farnborough air show.
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FARNBOROUGH: Norwegian converts to long-range A321neo
Scandinavian budget carrier Norwegian is to take the long-range version of the Airbus A321neo, by converting 30 previously-ordered aircraft.
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FARNBOROUGH: A380 drought duration unclear
Airbus chief executive Fabrice Bregier expects the production rate cut on the A380 programme to last “a few years” but would not put a more specific figure on the period.
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FARNBOROUGH: Air Europa revealed as 737 Max customer
Spanish carrier Air Europa has emerged as the customer behind a previously-unattributed order for 20 Boeing 737 Max 8 jets.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus highlights A350 reliability figures
Airbus has put A350-900 dispatch reliability at 98.5%, and remains confident that it can achieve its delivery target of 50 of the type this year.
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FBI calls off hunt for 727 hijacker 'DB Cooper'
Investigators from the FBI have suspended the effort to identify the hijacker who, in 1971, parachuted from the rear air-stair of an airborne Northwest Orient Boeing 727 after securing a $200,000 ransom.
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FARNBOROUGH: Stalled sales forced A380 rate cut
Airbus’s decision to slash the production rate on the A380 is the inevitable result of a clash between long lead times for the type and the airframer’s policy of avoiding building ‘white-tail’ aircraft.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus to halve A380 output
Airbus is to halve its production output on the Airbus A380, aiming for just 12 deliveries annually from 2018.
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FARNBOROUGH: Germania defects from CFM for new A320neos
Germania has defected to Pratt & Whitney for its newly-ordered Airbus A320neo fleet, having been a long-term CFM International customer.
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FARNBOROUGH: Wow Air places first direct Airbus order
Icelandic budget carrier Wow Air has placed its first order with Airbus, having agreed to take four A321s.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus reveals A320neo dispatch reliability
Airbus is claiming dispatch reliability on the in-service A320neo fleet has reached 99.7%.
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FARNBOROUGH: Jetstar Pacific signs for 10 A320s
Qantas-Vietnam Airlines joint-venture carrier Jetstar Pacific has tentatively committed to another 10 Airbus A320s.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus still in talks on higher-weight A330neo
Airbus is still in discussions over raising the maximum take-off weight of the A330neo, indicating that there might be room to pushing it above 245t.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus trims high-capacity demand outlook
Airbus has trimmed its outlook for high-capacity aircraft over the next 20 years, estimating demand for 1,479 new passenger jets and freighters in the ‘very large’ category.
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FARNBOROUGH: Air Lease orders three more A350s
US-based lessor Air Lease Corporation is ordering another three Airbus A350s as part of a package which also includes a single A321.
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FARNBOROUGH: Airbus overcomes A320neo technical snags to close on delivery targets
Gradually diminishing parking space probably wasn’t on the Airbus watchlist of potential hitches that the airframer might encounter at the early stage of entry-into-service for the re-engined A320neo.
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Hot shutdowns led to CS100 engine-test explosion: inquiry
Canadian investigators have traced an explosion and uncontained engine failure on a Bombardier CS100, during ground tests, to an oil-feed tube seal failure, resulting from misinterpretation of shutdown procedures.
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Wreckage of missing Il-76 found on Siberian hillside
Search teams in Siberia have found the wreckage of an Ilyushin Il-76 transport which vanished while conducting firefighting operations in the Irkutsk region.
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Istanbul Ataturk operations resume after bombing
Turkish Airlines has resumed flight operations at its main base, Istanbul Ataturk, following the attack on the airport on 28 June.
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Original A320 test airframe emerges as flight laboratory
Airbus has found a new role for its veteran A320 prototype, having converted the airframe into an airborne laboratory.