Jazz Air of Canada today announced a letter of intent with Bombardier to acquire 30 new Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft. The letter specifies a firm order of 15 Q400’s with another 15 on option. The Q400’s will have a passenger capacity of 74 seats.
Deliveries are expected beginning in May 2011. The first 15 Q400’s will [...]
Boeing today was pleased with the performance of their new Boeing member – the Boeing 747-8 Freighter. The newest member of the 747 family has been delayed twice, but met this first flight milestone with a three-hour test flight.
The Boeing 747-8 is 18-feet longer than the 747-400 and shares some of the new technologies of [...]
Allegiant Airlines, low-cost leisure airline, has agreed to purchase 18 used MD-80 aircraft from Scandanavian Airlines Systems. Allegiant anticipates the cost of integrating these 18 MD-80’s into their fleet to be about $4 million. The aircraft will be delivered during the first three quarters of 2010 and will all be in service by the end [...]
Today, Boeing delivered a 777-300ER to Philippine Airlines through a United States based leasing company. The new aircraft is the first Boeing 777 to join the Philippine Airlines fleet and is one of two 777-300ER’s coming from GE Capital Aviation Services aircraft leasing company.
Philippine Airlines also has four Boeing 777’s on order directly with the [...]
The Dubai Air Show is over, and the order tally is starkly lower than previous years. Airbus beat Boeing at this years air show in Dubai with Airbus selling 33 aircraft and Boeing selling 11 planes. This is in stark contrast to the Dubai Air Show of 2007 when Airbus sold 297 planes and Boeing [...]
The very first completed Boeing 747-8 is now ready for delivery at the Boeing plant in Everett, Washington. This new model of the famous Jumbo Jet is 18 feet longer than the next largest 747 – the -400 model. It also has a 13-foot wider wing-span.
The 16-percent more efficient aircraft is going to be initially [...]
Air Austral of France will purchase two new Airbus A380 superjumbo aircraft. The two aircraft, typically outfitted with about 525 to 550 seats, will be all-coach, no frills seating allowing for more than 800 seats on each aircraft – the highest number of seats on a single aircraft ever. There is no delivery dates releases [...]
Air New Zealand has announced their intention to purchase 14 new Aibus A320 aircraft from European Airbus to replace their domestic fleet of 15 Boeing 737-300 aircraft that are soon going to be returned to the lessor.
The A320’s will begin to arrive in January 2011 and continue through 2016 as the leases expire on the [...]
Today United Airlines flew the last of its Boeing 737’s into retirement. In the last year, United Airlines has grounded and moth-balled all 94 of their Boeing 737’s – once a staple of their fleet. The aircraft will be stripped down at a San Francisco maintenance hangar and then shipped for storage to the desert.
United [...]
Boeing to Place Second 787 Assembly Line in North Charleston, SC
Press Release
Source: Boeing
On 5:03 pm EDT, Wednesday October 28, 2009
SEATTLE, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Boeing today announced that it has chosen its North Charleston, S.C., facility as the location for a second final assembly site for the 787 Dreamliner program. Boeing evaluated criteria that were designed [...]
flydubai, Dubai’s first low-cost airline, will take delivery of it’s fifth aircraft in five months to continue it’s growth strategy. The Boeing 737-800NG is a part of the historic 50-plane order placed last year.
The new aircraft will fly to Doha beginning on October 18. In addition to Doha, Qatar, flydubai also operates service to Beirut, [...]
Republic Airways, in an effort to retire the Boeing 717’s currently operated by their newly acquired Midwest Airlines, will purchase 10 Embraer 190’s from US Airways as that airline tries to unload about 25 of the 99-seat regional jets.
The acquisition of these 10 jets will give Republic Airways a total of 145 Embraer Regional Jets. [...]
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow visited the Boeing design center located there. Boeing is hoping to win a competitive contract against Airbus to supply the Russian state-run airline Rosavia with an expected order of 65 narrow-body aircraft.
Russian Airlines, locally known as Rosavia, has been created by the state of Russia to compensate for [...]
Ryanair, currently operating an all-Boeing fleet, is expected to make it’s decision to purchase up to 200 new narrow-body aircraft from either Boeing or Airbus by the end of this year.
Ryanair has been widely expected to select to continue operating the Boeing fleet, but both aircraft makers have been struggling to find customers leading to [...]
Boeing has announced their third quarter and year-to-date deliveries for their commercial aircraft line.
Boeing 737 – 90 delivered; 280 year-to-date
Boeing 747 – 0 delivered; 6 year-to-date
Boeing 767 – 4 delivered; 10 year-to-date
Boeing 777 – 19 delivered; 63 year-to-date
TOTAL – 113 delivered; 359 year-to-date
Aimed at improving their balance sheet moving forward, American Airlines has announced a number of actions designed to improve operational efficiency, maximize revenue, and inject much needed cash into their operation.
Brought in $1 Billion in cash from Citibank in a deal where the bank paid in advance for AAdvantage Frequent Flyer Miles to be used [...]
Virgin Blue, looking to replace many of their current 65 mostly leased Boeing 737’s, is talking with Boeing about a possible deal for 30 to 50 new single-aisle Boeing airplanes. They stated they are in the market because the market is good and that they don’t want to miss the opportunity.
Some airlines, anticipating a global [...]
