The changing US airline fleet
The US airline fleet is seeing some significant changes – some you expect and others perhaps, not. Take a look at the data for the big three for a start. Look at that drop in the regional fleet on the…
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New deliveries through June and why Airbus is doing better than Boeing
How are the OEMs moving through the summer as the air show dust settles? The following table shows the performance through June, plus a few initial days of July. Here are the new deliveries through June and why Airbus is…
Wideroe wants to do Rural Air Mobility with Eve in Norway
Norwegian regional carrier Wideroe caused some surprise by announcing a Letter of Intent for fifty Eve Air Mobility eVTOLs at the Paris Airshow. Although the airline has a Memorandum of Understanding with Eve to develop eVTOL operations in Scandinavia since 2021 ,…
India is going to be the key aviation market
India’s airlines made a big splash at this year’s airshow. It was like the old days when the ME3 made the big orders. The geography has shifted along with the demand. Speaking with several people at the show, it was…
Paris Airshow: new aircraft deals total 1.247
With all the deals announced by Thursday, we can wrap up the Paris Airshow orders now and see what has been concluded. If we track the orders from the big OEMs Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, ATR, and De Havilland Canada, but…
Embraer lands Chinese freighter conversion agreement
Embraer is set to establish a passenger-to-freighter conversion line in China for its E1-jets, having signed a Letter of Agreement with Lanzhou Aviation Industry Development. The Chinese company wants to convert twenty E190s or E195s into full freighters. Embraer lands…