Swiss International Airlines on CSeries
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Airbus is offering an A321 with longer range as a 757 replacement
Rumors about a Boeing 757 replacement from Airbus have been swirling for months. Many industry followers have been discussing the Boeing 757 replacement “gap” – because the aircraft OEMs today tout as replacements, the A321neo and 737MAX9, don’t quite meet…
Austrian and CSeries
A story out today might lead readers to think a CSeries order from Austrian is imminent. Its not. We contacted Austrian and we were told “I am pleased to confirm that we achieved a framework-agreement with our workers council, so…
Azul’s pending A320neo order
In the business of buying airplanes, an airline will always seek the lowest cost. Just as they do with every other production input – lowest cost wins every time. So how is it that with the pending Azul order, “Boeing…
Chicago’s air traffic recovery still struggling
This morning the FAA reported that it had “restored full air-traffic operations at the high-altitude facility in suburban Aurora, Ill.” See here for more details on what was done. Well can we see this in the data? Not yet is…
CSeries Demonstrations in Dallas and Indianapolis
The CSeries has resumed flight testing, and flight test vehicle 4 has been commandeered by the marketing team to make visits to customers and prospects. This week, FTV4 visited Republic Airways in Indianapolis, as shown in this video. Republic was…