Here’s an interesting twist. Continental was toying with LiveTV at one stage for connectivity. United was testing Gogo. Today the following PR made it official; “United Continental Holdings, Inc. today announced that it selected Panasonic Avionics Corporation to provide WiFi…
Boeing Commercial Airplanes provided a program update on the 737 MAX today. “The 737 is a more efficient, lighter design and requires less thrust than other airplanes in this class, which is important because weight and thrust have a significant…
The Dubai Air Show the week of November 13 will have a fair number of orders to announce by the Middle Eastern carriers and a small number of non-Gulf customers. Some of these orders have been widely leaked already: Emirates…
Just when you thought the new law, with a fine of up to $27,500 per passenger for delays that keep passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours would solve the problem, a JetBlue flight was diverted to BDL…
While Ryanair’s reputation for being cheap is well known, recent reports in the British press indicate that passengers on a recent flight from London Stanstead to Riga, Latvia that had to turn back because of unusual noises, believed the aircraft…
Bombardier Aerospace confirmed that the final results of a three-phase wind tunnel test confirmed the aerodynamics of the CSeries as well enabled the optimal integration of the PW1500G engines onto the CSeries airframe. This wasn’t a simple wind tunnel test,…