Airbus and TAROM Romanian Air Transport together with a consortium of key stakeholders have established one of Europe’s first project aiming to establish a sustainable bio-kerosene jet-fuel processing and production capability. The Romanian based project aims to provide a bio-fuel…
Gary Scott is President of Bombardier Aerospace and provides a summary of his speech at ISTAT. He was direct, but polite. Despite the naysayers Mr Scott is confident in his team and their product. As he puts it, they have…
Jean-Paul Ebanga is President & CEO of CFM International. This company is the creator of the CFM56 engine – one that has 540 million hours of operation and is regarded by many as the benchmark narrow body engine. Mr Ebanga…
This morning it was the turn of the engine companies to provide updates. The sessions were excellent. By the time P&W and CFM completed their briefings one felt updated on the big picture and nuances. P&W clearly feel the wind…
Andrew Shankland is Airbus VP Marketing Customer Affairs and presented at ISTAT 2011 in John Leahy’s absence. His presentation was excellent and here he gives us a quick reprise without notes and slides. He covers the Airbus NEO project and…
International Lease Finance Corporation has become the first leasing company to order the Airbus A320neo family, for 100 of the aircraft. Interestingly, at least 60 of those aircraft will be powered by the Pratt & Whitney PW1000G Geared Turbofan (GTF)…