Last year at North American ISTAT event, AVITAS’ Adam Pilarski delivered his annual market review and pointed out that there looked like a bubble in orders. Predictably, the OEMs present snorted in derision. Well in two weeks’ time it’s the…
Increasing sales potential in the relatively untapped seaplane market has led Viking Air Limited of Victoria, British Columbia, to introduce the world’s first dedicated seaplane in the 15 to 19-passenger category, the Viking Twin Otter 400S Seaplane. Recognized as the…
Mitsubishi recently announced the fourth delay to the MRJ program, EIS is now schedule for the second quarter of 2018. Since the initial three flights in November and, despite a resumption of flights last week, the company decided not to…
Safety reports from IATA for 2015 indicate that the level of safety in the industry remains high and accident rates remain below the average of the previous five years. There were six fatal crashes in 2015, two with jets and…
IATA DG Tony Tyler spoke in front of an audience of airline chiefs and regulators in Singapore, saying that airline industry profitability remained fragile despite $36bn in industry profits forecast for 2016. See more on this speech here. So what…
GE announced the assembly of their first GE9X engine that will start testing 1H16 is underway. This comes four years before the engine flies on the 777X. The GE9X engine is in the 100,000 lb thrust class. “Assembly of the…