airBaltic and consortium partners Quovadis and Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme launched a project under the Atlantic Interoperability Initiative to Reduce Emissions (AIRE) to operate Europe’s first green flights for turboprops. The AMBER (Arrival Modernization for Better Efficiency in Riga) project will…
Looking ahead at this time of year, there are several key events and stories that we know will occur in 2013. In this post, we’ll comment about them, along with our prognostication on how we expect they might turn out.…
It is unusual to get so much news from the company. Two releases in two days. Yesterday we heard that a new customer based in “the Americas” signed an LoI for 12+18 CS100s. Also mentioned is that wing join on…
While many in the industry view the COMAC 919 as China’s aerospace learning vehicle that will enable it to enter the modern airliner industry, many others are less pessimistic regarding its future. With a veritable plethora of western suppliers on…
Last year Delta was looking at replacing its older, smaller airplanes with either something from Embraer or Bombardier. Then in an interesting turn of events the airline decided to put that on hold and ordered 737-900NGs. This was followed by…
With the industry abuzz about a delay for the Bombardier CSeries, it may be an appropriate time to revisit why new airplanes can’t seem to be certified on time. In a piece we published earlier this year, we cited several…