Southwest Airlines has awarded GE Engine Services a ten-year, $380 million contract to maintain the CFM56-7 engines which will power the US carrier's fleet of Boeing 737-700s. The work will be performed under GE's Maintenance Cost Per Hour (MCPH) service programme. Southwest will begin taking delivery of 737-700s in 1997.
Source: Flight International
Former Boeing executive Marc Allen thinks start-up Electra’s concept for a hybrid-electric, short take-off aircraft has far more commercial viability than other novel aircraft within the burgeoning advanced air mobility space.
Former Boeing chief strategy officer Marc Allen has succeeded John Langford as chief executive of Electra, a Virginia start-up developing a nine-passenger hybrid-electric passenger aircraft.
Nigerian carriers are seeking to ease the process of fleet modernisation as part of an agreement reached between Boeing and the Nigerian aviation ministry. The agreement – in the form of a memorandum of understanding – was signed in Seattle on 28 August. Nigerian aviation minister Festus Keyamo says the ...
