In September 2017 Boeing spoke about increasing their 787 production rate by 2019. In March 2018 Boeing spoke about moving the rate from 12 to 14 aircraft per month “next year” (2019). We are about halfway to next year, what…
Bloomberg is reporting that the attempted sale of Air India by the government has attracted no buyers. As they point out this is a blow to the Prime Minister. Since the deal required taking on 66% of the airline’s $7.8bn…
Yesterday evening, Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) welcomed the start of international service from Icelandair, a new airline for the airport. Icelandair began roundtrip flights on Monday between BWI Marshall and Keflavik International Airport in Iceland. Icelandair’s hub in…
French aviation legend, Serge Dassault, passed away at 93. M. Dassault was the head of aviation and software giant Dassault Group, which also owns the Le Figaro newspaper. He was a giant of the French business world who had also…
Regular readers know we have a fascination with flight operations. More specifically, with ground handling time. We analyzed the first three months of the 2018 US DoT On-Time data to see if we could identify anything unusual. Here’s what…
Along with the well kept secret Global 5500 and 6500 development, the Rolls-Royce Peral engine was also kept secret until yesterday. Rolls-Royce claims to be the world’s leading engine supplier for business aviation, powering over 3,000 aircraft in service today,…