Airbus completed installation of the first set of ‘Sharklet’ wing-tip devices on the company’s A320 development aircraft (MSN 001), preparing for the flight-test campaign in the coming weeks. The sharklets, specially designed for the A320 Family, will reduce fuel burn…
WheelTug (an AirInsight client) recently attracted a lot of industry attention when it announced El AL as its launch customer. The company just released a video simulation (created by Airport Research Center GmbH) of how its technology enables an airline…
One of the few regions not heavily impacted by weak economies in Europe and the US has been Latin America. While the global economy is struggling, Latin America’s GDP is growing faster than the world, at an average annual rate of…
We have been developing our On-Time database and wanted to share an insight with our readers. Our source data is the US DoT On-Time data. The charts below are for the three big airlines at JFK in New York. We…
At the Paris show it was all Airbus all the time. The Dubai show may see more Airbus news but they won’t top Boeing’s huge order. Boeing is having a great show so far. Starting with an order unlikely to…
For years now – yes years – Mr Al Baker has been waxing and waning on the Pratt & Whitney geared fan engine. Back in 2009 he went so far as to say that the GTF on the A320 would…