Japan Air Commuter (JAC) has ordered five Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprops and taken options on one more. The aircraft will be used to replace its ageing NAMC YS-11 turboprops and first deliveries are expected in the fourth quarter of 2002. JAC parent Japan Air Commuter has meanwhile ordered three Airbus A300-600Rs to replace ageing A300B aircraft.
Source: Airline Business
Comac’s ARJ21 has completed its first commercial flight from a high-altitude airport in China, the latest in a series of milestones for the regional jet.
Airbus’s framework agreement with Spirit AeroSystems shows that the aircraft manufacturer might yet acquire Scottish or Malaysian operations of Spirit if a third-party buyer does not emerge. Both Sprit’s Glasgow Prestwick division and its Subang airport arm in western Kuala Lumpur supply components for Airbus programmes. Neither has been included ...
Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury admits that the airframer was not expecting to be negotiating an acquisition of key aircraft programmes from beleaguered US firm Spirit AeroSystems, but insists it is necessary and that Airbus is ready to absorb them.
