Canada’s WestJet announced, in a briefing to its pilots, that it is planning to acquire wide-body aircraft and begin flying internationally in 2015. The carrier currently wet-leases Boeing 757s from Thomas Cook for Hawaii operations, and those contracts expire next…
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Yesterday Reuters reported that American Airlines is close to announcing selection of CFM LEAP engines for their Airbus neo orders. The order is for engines on 100 aircraft and reported as worth $2.6bn. What might be driving the selection of…
The US DoT Form 41 is treated by many as something less than truthful. Sometimes this is because the viewer does not like the data. Other times its because airlines are known to be “creative” with how they report their…
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Vincent Lamigeon at Challenges, in France, published an interesting article today suggesting that Airbus knew of the cancellation of a 70 aircraft order from Emirates well in advance of their disclosure during Innovation Days. The article links to Emirates’ annual…