Premium – Arkia selects LEAP
Yesterday Israel’s second largest airline, Arkia, selected the CFM LEAP engine for its A320neo order. The airline only has four on order, so it is a small order. But the implications of this are far bigger. Views: 51
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CS100 awarded London City certification
Bombardier announced that Transport Canada and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) awarded its CS100 its steep approach certifications. The CS100 aircraft’s capability to operate at challenging airports such as London City (LCY) Airport was validated by a comprehensive flight…
Chorus Aviation and the ATR order
Chorus Aviation today announced it acquired six ATR 72-600s with attached leases from Aviation PLC. Three of these aircraft are currently on lease to U.K. carrier, Flybe, and three to Virgin Australia Airlines. Commenting on the planned purchase, Chorus Aviation…
Premium – Aeroflot Fleet Review
Continuing our fleet review series, today we look at Aeroflot. The company has gone through various iterations, lie so many others. Its roots go back to 1923. During the Soviet era, this was the world’s largest airline. Offering flights across…
More insight into A350 program progress
We did an earlier look at this issue and now we can show more progress. So far 74 have been delivered. The table lists these along with the number of days from first flight to delivery. We list the number…
GTF Update
P&W provided us with this release on their GTF engine: “Pratt & Whitney’s carbon seal improvement package received certification April 12 and is being deployed to our customers. These changes are designed to improve the carbon seal’s durability for PW1100G-JM…