Most often selling an aircraft takes a long time, with many responses back and forth to overcome challenges by the customer. But sometimes a lucky break comes along. This is such a story. RUAG Aviation is based in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany…
Norwegian Air International filed an application to serve the US from Europe under the US-EU Open Skies agreement in late 2013 with the DoT. On April 15th of this year, 29 months later, the DOT tentatively approved their application. The…
ATR, the European turboprop maker, is touring the United States and Canada with an ATR72-600. This is their top of the line model. The aircraft is powered by P&WC PW127 engines. A revised version of that engine is now in…
Over the past week we had some big news from Delta. First came the much anticipated order for the CSeries. Although it was supposed to be secret, the news leaked. The nature of this order was deeply disruptive and therefore…
The Airbus Military A400M is in the news again, and once again the news would have you believe the program is in deep trouble. The program is facing a technical issue, but this is not a show stopper. The issue…
Delta is increasing its commitment to 2Ku, Gogo’s in-flight Wi-Fi technology, by at least 350 aircraft. This brings Delta’s total 2Ku commitment to more than 600 aircraft in its mainline fleet. Deploying 2Ku will offer customers faster speeds and bandwidth…