HeavyLift Cargo Airlines has taken delivery of its second Airbus A300B4 freighter on lease from C-S Aviation Services, and signed a contract with Lufthansa Cargo to operate the aircraft on European night-time freight flights. Both aircraft were converted by British Aerospace Aviation Services, and the first has been in service since September 1997, operating flights between Amsterdam and Bologne and Zaragosa for KLM.
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.
