With EU nations setting up protection for their national carriers, what is a new entrant to do? Somehow, whatever beachhead is established, it has to be exploited to improve reach. Which makes this move by Etihad so smart. Etihad is…
Given the UK’s vibrant green movement and its dislike of air travel, this news is very clever. Thomson Airways will become Britain’s first airline to fly customers on biofuel made from cooking oil when it operates a service to Spain…
Last week’s Paris show saw Indian airlines accounting for a third of orders. This is a $23bn bet on the future of an industry that suffers from state meddling and support for a dinosaur national airline. Taking such a big…
Turboprops are not as “sexy” as jets – perhaps. But they make money and for this reason they are in something of a renaissance. Both turboprop OEMs are doing good business. Bombardier brought a spanking new Q400 to the show…
Scott Tapson, VP of Business Development at Jazz, talks about their experience with the Q400. We sat in their airplane at the show and spoke about Jazz and their thoughts on growing their fleet of turboprops. The airline is replacing…
Korean Air announced an order for 10 Bombardier CS300 aircraft, with 10 options and an additional 10 purchase rights. KAL will be Bombardier’s first CSeries customer in Asia, joining customers in North America and Europe and 2 additional unannounced customers.…