All Systems & interiors articles – Page 288
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NewsSeat makers benefit from Koito debacle
Major aircraft seat manufacturers are absorbing the seat programmes that cannot be supported by embattled Japanese firm Koito Industries, which recently...
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Airbus makes headway on A350 catalogue
Airbus's catalogue for the A350 XWB is taking shape, with the airframer having completed the selection on the majority of suppliers for its initial book.
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NewsLufthansa to operate first A380 flights to Tokyo and Beijing
Lufthansa plans to operate its first Airbus A380 flights to Tokyo Narita and Beijing. The Star Alliance carrier, which will take delivery of its first...
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US Airways plans formal Gogo launch in June
Even as roughly 75% of the 51 Airbus A321s in the US Airways fleet now feature the Aircell Gogo Wi-fi offering, the carrier is opting to commence its full...
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India's DGCA analyses recorders from Emirates turbulence incident
Indian civil aviation authorities are analysing the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder from the Emirates Boeing 777-200ER that was involved in a severe turbulence incident
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NewsAirbus to flight-test XWB carbonfibre skin panel on A340 this year
Airbus will fly a carbonfibre fuselage panel on its A340-300 testbed this year as part of its investigation of acoustic transmission within the A350 XWB's composite cabin.
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Airbus focuses on family commonality as it begins A350-800 detailed design
Airbus is about to begin the detailed design effort of the next XWB iteration, the A350-800 shrink, in parallel with its efforts to begin the industrial...
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India's DGCA analyses recorders from Emirates turbulence incident
Indian civil aviation authorities are analysing the flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR) from the Emirates aircraft involved in a...
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Cobham Aviation launches Avro RJ100 shuttle
Cobham Aviation Services Australia launched in late April fly-in/fly-out services between Perth, Karratha and Barrow Island in Western Australia using a modified Avro RJ100, the first time the type has been used in the Australian fly-in/fly-out sector. ...
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NewsAirbus' A350 catalogue comes together
Airbus's catalogue for the A350 XWB is taking shape, with the airframer having completed the selection on the majority of suppliers for its initial book. "Most...
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ASH CLOUD: How the crisis unfolded
With little hint of the dramatic lockdown of European airspace to come, an operational message to Eurocontrol's Central Flow Management Unit on 14 April...
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CUTAWAY: P-8A Poseidon - A Boeing with boost of bravado
The US Navy's P-3C replacement will transform anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions
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NewsLiveTV CEO eyes Kiteline World trial by year-end
JetBlue Airways subsidiary LiveTV is pressing ahead with plans to trial a new global in-flight connectivity service over Iridium satellites by the end of...
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IFE Services names Velusamy as technical sales manager
In-flight entertainment specialist IFE Services has appointed Shankar Velusamy as technical sales manager.
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VIDEO: BMI will be more than Star feeder: CEO
No plans to break up UK carrier as new chief sees Lufthansa and Star Alliance providing necessary economies of scale
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Crashed Polish Tu-154 fitted with terrain warning system
Russian investigators have confirmed that the Polish state Tupolev Tu-154M which crashed on approach to Smolensk had been equipped with a ground collision-warning...
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US DOT denies airline requests for tarmac rule exemptions
JetBlue Airways says it is "disappointed" after the US Department of Transportation (DOT) denied a request for an exemption from a new tarmac delay rule...
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NewsAirbus devises plan to compress A350 flight-testing by three months
Airbus aims to meet the A350's mid-2013 service-entry target by compressing the flight-test programme into 12 months, after revealing that it has burnt up some of the development programme's " buffer".
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Frontier to fit E-Jets with Gogo, eyes connectivity for A320s
Frontier Airlines is to equip its Embraer E-Jets fleet with Aircell's Gogo in-flight Internet system, but says it will continue to research connectivity...
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NewsConnectivity key as Embraer eyes 'intelligent' airplane
Embraer sees in-flight connectivity playing a vital role in the next new "intelligent" commercial aircraft it brings to market. In-flight entertainment...