Air Lease Corporation (ALC) Chairman Steven Udvar-Hazy is still not convinced that the market really needs the passenger version of the Boeing 777X. The operating costs per seat of the big twin-jet are higher and the 787-10 is doing better.…
Airbus and Air France-KLM Maintenance & Engineering announced earlier this week that they plan to establish a joint venture company, dedicated to component maintenance service of the Airbus A350. Not just for the Air France fleet, but the JV targets to…
Europe’s aerospace technology program Clean Aviation has approved €152 million in EU funding for eight new projects that target breakthrough technologies for commercial aviation. If all public and private investments are included, the latest round totals €380 million. The eight projects…
UPDATE – Boeing expects the rework on the aft pressure bulkhead of the 737 and MAX to take longer. Deliveries in August were 22 and are guided and about seventy aircraft for Q3. The airframer reiterates its guidance of 400 to…
Air France-KLM and Etihad Airways want to extend their existing codeshare and interline partnership with a collaboration that covers commercial operations and maintenance. The two airlines have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Paris on September 7. The MoU needs regulatory…
AerCap has agreed to settle its insurance claim over seventeen airliners and five engines that are still in Russia. The lessor will receive $645 million for the assets, that were on lease to Aeroflot and Rossiya but which they refused…