The reported dispute between Air France-KLM and Rolls-Royce over the engines for their long-awaited A350 order comes down to Rolls’ insistence that it perform the maintenance on the engines and Air France’s desire to not only do its own maintenance…
We believe an area that deserves more aerospace attention is biofuels. Airlines need these fuels because they can reduce fossil fuel price volatility. Biofuels can be sourced in many places in the world. Places subject to much less political unrest…
Its too bad that there are no online archives going back to the dawn of the widebody era in 1969. There is a useful historical perspective on the 747’s development here. Parallels with the news on the A380 are amazing.…
The framework agreement from a year ago has made huge progress. Yesterday’s announcement is remarkable. Never before have two aircraft companies decided to combine their interests quite like this. It is more than ground breaking. For an airline looking at…
Bob Saia spoke with us about the GTF program, covering the CSeries and MRJ. He also addressed the 777X potential. Views: 23
The industry rumor mill has been rumbling about this for months. Today it is official. Further to the framework agreement signed on March 24, 2011, Jin Zhuanglong, Chairman, Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) and Pierre Beaudoin, President and…