Month August 2017
GE retires P&W powered testbed
Probably the oldest 747 aircraft in service may be retiring. GE Aviation’s original 747 Flying Test Bed is headed to storage – it flew its last flight on January 25 at GE Aviation’s Flight Test Operation in Victorville, California. Here…
BP offers more biojet with Scandinavia focus
Air BP, the international aviation fuel products, and service supplier is offering biojet to customers at Bergen airport in Norway. The first batch was delivered to the airport on 16 August. This follows Air BP’s introduction of biojet at Halmstad…
Embraer enables St. Helena air service
Today an important flight took place between the African mainland and St. Helena. Using an E-190, Airlink undertook a “proving flight” from Windhoek in Namibia to the island. The over water portion of the flight took nearly four hours. The…
Cathay selects A321neo
In an interesting move, Cathay Pacific has made a “non-binding” preliminary agreement to buy 32 A321neos. Deliveries are set to start in 2020 and go through 2023. The A321neos will replace Cathay Dragon’s 15 A320s and eight A321s the airline…
The GTF push-back starts
The general sense among many industry observers is that the Pratt & Whitney GTF is having a tough settling in period. The most vocal critics have tended to be from India, where the largest GTF powered fleet of A320neos are…