Having been around the industry for more years than we’d like to admit, our perception is that new programs are taking much longer to develop than they did in the past. Back in the “good old” days, it seemed that…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…