Bombardier’s 2012 Annual Market Forecast
Bombardier’s VP Strategy Business Development and Structured Finance, Mairead Lavery provided the company’s latest forecast as part of its pre-Farnborough media event. Views: 19
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Meet Mike Arcamone
Mike Arcamone is Bombardier’s new President of Commercial Aircraft. He sat down to speak with us during the pre-Farnborough briefing at the company’s Montreal offices. Views: 30
Airbus and Air Canada make “Perfect Flight”
Today Airbus and Air Canada are performing North America’s first “Perfect Flight” over international borders. The goal is to cut CO2 emissions by more than 40% compared to a regular flight. The commercial flight on an A319 flying from Toronto…
Price matters in Airbus vs Boeing comparisons
The Airbus A330-300 has an economic advantage over the Boeing 787-9 of $113,000 per month, or $1.36m per year, claimed John Leahy, COO-Customers, at the recent Airbus Innovation Days. Views: 227
Aircraft noise
Airports are often surrounded by the communities they serve. An airport that used to be far away from homes thirty years ago now has neighbors. Great examples (Heathrow and Gatwick) exist in London. LAX is also surrounded by homes. Views:…
Remarkable CFM performance
Today Germany’s TUIfly and CFM celebrated a new first-run time-on-wing world record set by a CFM56-7B engine powering one of the airline’s Boeing 737-800s. This engine logged more than 50,000 hours without a shop visit. That’s equivalent to 2,083 days…