Hong Kong Express has become the first Asian carrier to take delivery of an Embraer 170, which is also the airline’s first aircraft. The aircraft is the first of four E-170s the airline is leasing from GE Commercial Aviation Services. It plans to operate charters to Taichung, Taiwan, ahead of scheduled services to Guangzhou and Hangzhou in China.
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.
