A little known airline today announced an order for 17 A350s (12 A35K and five A350-900). Taiwan-based Starlux is an airline startup. The A350s come after an earlier order for 10 A321neos set for delivery in 2019. The airline plans…
Our travel schedule has been a bit hectic this month, so this update is late. Next week the show starts, so we thought we’d better get this done today. Airlines have been seeing relatively more transactions this year than last. …
CSALP, the Airbus-Bombardier partnership for the A220, formerly CSeries, has won a bellwether order for 60 aircraft from JetBlue. These 60 A220-300 aircraft will replace the 60 Embraer E190 models currently in its fleet beginning in 2020. The transaction was…
We spent a few minutes speaking with David Dufrenois, head of marketing at CSALP to speak about how the market might evolve in the new era of a super duopoly. Turns out it’s not easy to predict. But Mr Dufrenois’…
Today Airbus undertook its reveal of their new single aisle aircraft, formally known as the C Series, henceforth known as the A220. The two models have gone from CS100 to A220-100 and CS300 to A220-300. There was a pre-reveal briefing.…
On July 6th Airbus brought their A330-900 from Chicago to Atlanta. We were invited by Airbus to join this flight to see how the aircraft feels as a passenger. The first image is of the aircraft as we walked up…