In 2Q17 there were 1,365 A319s in the market as the table lists. Only about 1% were parked. The fleet is also rather young. We do know that Airbus favors the C Series over its slow-selling A319. Airbus cannot play…
Embraer reports that it signed a firm order for ten E175s with American Airlines. American is exercising purchase rights from its original contract with Embraer signed in 2013. This new order is in addition to the one placed in April…
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Last Saturday, October 28, KLM performed its final commercial passenger service operated by a Fokker aircraft. This ended a 97-year association with Fokker. The airline’s last six inbound F70s arrived in Amsterdam from Dusseldorf, Norwich, Hannover, Brussels, Luxembourg and London…
Last Friday the aviation journalism fraternity lost a special member, Ben Sandilands. Here is a link to background on this remarkable character. Ben followed and reported on aviation for 60 years. There was very little about the industry he did…
Embraer reports that in 3Q17 it delivered 25 commercial aircraft, and over the first nine months of the year delivered 78 commercial aircraft. The table below comes from the OEM’s report. In September, Embraer added 45 orders to its order…