UK start-up FlyWhoosh has begun offering services from Dundee in Scotland to Birmingham and Belfast using an ATR 42 operated by Poland's White Eagle Aviation. FlyWhoosh serves Birmingham twice daily on weekdays and once on Sundays, and Belfast six times a week. Scot Airways is currently the primary airline at Dundee, offering regular connections to London City airport using Dornier 328 turboprops.
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.
