Regional Jet Snapshot
How is this segment of the market doing? When oil prices spiked, the 50-seater regional jets become uneconomic. Since then, fuel prices dropped dramatically. Has the market come back for these aircraft? Views: 33
Year 2016
An example of the disruption Additive Manufacturing drives
GE has been at the forefront of additive manufacturing for a while. Though not alone in seeing the benfits from this technology, GE is touting an interesting example of what this means. They explain that their new ATP has 855…
A Lufthansa CFM56 achieves 100,000 flight hours
Lufthansa and CFM International are celebrating the achievement of 100,000 flight hours by one of the airline’s CFM56-5C engines more than 20 years after Lufthansa took delivery of its first Airbus A340-300. The airline was the launch customer for the…
Ryanair’s 200m scary passenger goal
The news from Ryanair is going to scare its competitors. Ryanair reported a 7% increase in H1 profits to €1,168m as AGB and lower fares delivered 12% traffic growth to 65m customers and a 2% jump in load factor to…
Premium #302 – Time to break the hockey-stick
As most of my friends know, I’m a hockey fanatic. Even my cell phone ring tone is the old Hockey Night in Canada theme song. But every year when we come to NBAA, we see hockey stick forecasts showing that…
Pilatus PC24 flies to NBAA
The new Pilatus PC24 jet arrived in Orlando for the NBAA convention, making its first appearance at this event. The PC24 is a new light jet that will compete with the Embraer Phenom 300 and Cessna CJ4, and offers some…