ATR announced today that FedEx Express, the world’s largest express transportation company, and ATR signed a contract for the firm purchase of 30 ATR 72-600s plus 20 options. These aircraft will be the first new ATRs to be directly delivered…
A report in the Seattle Times broke the story yesterday that Amazon is looking at acquiring 20 Boeing 767-300ER freighters to avoid problems with unmet deliveries during peak seasons. Amazon has been experimenting with its own delivery service, which was…
As fuel costs have come down we have seen the US airline industry report record profits. But how is the impact playing out? We created the following chart to illustrate this using the Boeing 737-700 and a few airlines as…
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What a month it’s been for Boeing. First came news that Air Lease Corporation (ALC) finalized its order for four 787-9s. ALC also exercised options for four 737-800s. The order with a list-price value of over $1.2 billion was the…
Jack McHale is former president of ORBIS, the flying eyesight saving organization. They have been doing stellar work for years and are about to move on to their third airplane. They started with a DC-8 from United. Then they had…