The Pre-Owned A380
News this week about Singapore Airlines not renewing the lease on its first A380 has caused a flutter. The considered opinion is that this is another piece of bad news for the Airbus program. The Wall Street Journal has this…
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Airbus O&D through August
Airbus has reported its O&D through August. (Boeing only has data through July for download as of today) Taking a look a the Airbus numbers highlights some important issues. Views: 56
Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 Corrosion Issues
Problems with fatigue cracking resulting from sulfidation corrosion is plaguing the Trent 1000 engines utilized by 169 Boeing 787 aircraft. Since February, there have been three “engine incidents” at All Nippon Airways, the first and most experienced operator of…
Ethiopian Airlines Airbus A350 First Flight to Johannesburg
Ethiopian Airlines, in it’s 70th year of operation, is fulfilling its company motto: “The New Spirit of Africa”. It is the first African airline (and second Star Alliance airline), to receive an Airbus A350XWB (on lease from the AerCap). With…
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Rolls-Royce, Microsoft & Singapore Airlines to collaborate
Today at the Farnborough show, Rolls Royce, Microsoft and Singapore Airlines announced a plan to collaborate on something called “TotalCare Digital”. The idea is to take best in class solutions and add together the data flows from advanced analytics and…