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Morning Call: Tuesday 30 June 2020
Commercial Maintenance firm clashes with inquiry over severe E190 loss-of-control incident - FlightGlobal Hydrogen-powered aviation is ready for...
Bombardier Global 5500 Enters Service
The new Global 5500 from Bombardier, the smallest model in the Global family, joined its larger Global 6500 and Global 7500 in service last week...
Insight: Monday 29 June 2020: A Big Week for Boeing and the MAX
News: FAA test flights of the Boeing 737 MAX will begin today to determine whether the aircraft will be approved for a return to service in the...
Morning Call: Monday 29 June 2020
Commercial FAA Confirms Boeing 737 Max Test Flights Set to Begin - Bloomberg Airbus confirms thousands of redundancies amid industry slow-down -...
Comac ARJ21 hits milestone as first aircraft join Three Majors
Chinese airframer Comac hit an important milestone on June 28 when it simultaneously delivered three ARJ21 regional jets to the country’s biggest...
Virgin Australia finds new future with Bain Capital
Virgin Australia seems to have escaped insolvency and liquidation after Bain Capital Private Equity has been selected as the preferred buyer of...
Comparing Single Aisle Economics 1Q20
Given the paucity of good news from the commercial aviation industry, why not take a look at data for 1Q20? Here is a combination of data from the...
KLM secures 3.4 billion state aid package
The Dutch government finally agreed on the state aid package for KLM on June 26, announcing the airline will receive EUR 3.4 billion in loans and...
Morning Call: Friday 26 June 2020
Commercial Shrinking aerospace demand to keep pressure on cobalt prices - Reuters Tesla electric aircraft: Elon Musk responds to ‘Model V’ concept...
Insight Friday 26 June 2020: FAA Bows to Foreign Regulators on MAX
News: The Seattle Times published a story that the FAA is bowing to the requests of international regulators regarding additional changes to the 737...
Qantas slashes workforce by 16.000 – A380s are stored
Qantas will reduce costs in the next three years by $15 billion, including the reduction of 6.000 jobs and parking of some 100 aircraft for the...
Lufthansa gets green light for state aid deal
After a tense week full of uncertainties, Lufthansa Group finally concluded the EUR 9 billion stabilization package at the June 25 shareholder...
Morning Call: Thursday 25 June 2020
Commercial Shrinking aerospace demand to keep pressure on cobalt prices - Reuters Tesla electric aircraft: Elon Musk responds to ‘Model V’ concept...
ATR also sees the recovery starting at the regional level
Zuzana Hrnkova, VP Marketing ATR, talks us through ATR's experience with Covid-19 from the view of their business and how their customers are...
Morning Call: Wednesday 24 June 2020
Commercial First US commercial flight with a pilot with insulin-treated diabetes - CNN European aviation unites in calls for support for green...
Morning Call: Tuesday 23 June 2020
Commercial New Health App ID Aims to Restore Passenger Confidence - GE Spirit AeroSystems asks for relief after deeper 737 production cut - Reuters...
Back to business
Sunday, June 21. We are well into June now and many airlines have significantly ramped up capacity again after the disastrous months of April and...
Insight Monday 22 June 2020 – MAX Whistleblower Identifies Additional Issues with MAX
News: Last Thursday, the Seattle Times published a story outlining key points from a letter from a Boeing whistleblower to the US Senate prior to...
Morning Call: Monday 22 June 2020
Commercial What pilots do when a pandemic grounds half the world’s planes - Bloomberg More Mainline Commercial Aircraft are Now Flying Than Stored -...
Rolls-Royce provides an update on its Hybrid Electric journey
Riona Armesmith is Chief Project Engineer Hybrid Electric Propulsion at Rolls-Royce and spent some time updating us on how their team is doing on...