During its earnings call this week, Alaska’s CFO spoke of interest in 30 regional jets with 76 seats. These are to be deployed by Horizon Air as it returns 15 Bombardier Q400s on lease. Horizon has long been a Bombardier…
ATR reported their 2015 numbers and they are impressive. The OEM set a new record of deliveries at 88 aircraft. It received 76 firm orders and 81 options and it passed the threshold of 200 operators. ATR achieved a record turnover…
This order was telegraphed a week ago. Even as late as yesterday morning we were hearing from competitors that the race was still on. But United selected Boeing late Thursday when it reported its fourth quarter numbers. The announcement was…
Lufthansa Group, Airbus’ largest airline customer and operator, marked a step in aviation history today by taking delivery of the first A320neo. From left to right: David Hess, EVP and Chief Customer Officer, Aerospace, United Technologies – Robert Leduc, Pratt…
Embraer started the parts production process for the E195-E2 jet, the second model of its new E2 generation commercial aircraft. The first part of the E195-E2 prototype is a lateral rib of the stub, which is on the Central Fuselage…
IRKUT reported today that the right composite wing panel of the MC-21 was delivered to its plant (IRKUT is a member of UAC ). In a world first, aviation specialists from AeroComposite used innovative vacuum infusion technology and the automatic…