Airbus dusts off its plans for a new A320 final assembly line (FAL) in Toulouse. A year after the plan was mothballed due to the effects of the Covid-crisis, the former A380 Final Assembly Line in the Lagardère building will…
UAE low-cost carrier flydubai reported an AED -712.6 million net loss for 2020, compared to an AED 198.2 million profit in 2019, it announced on May 2. Flydubai remains cautious after the 2020 loss. While the airline is planning to ramp…
After the maligning of the GTF from India, here comes something interesting. Frontier Airlines announced the selection of Pratt & Whitney GTF engines to power 134 Airbus A320neos. The engines will power 49 A320neo, 67 A321neo, and 18 A321XLR aircraft,…
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Under the circumstances of a most difficult year, Airbus has succeeded in delivering 566 commercial aircraft to airlines in 2020. It is of course a far cry from the record 863 from 2019 but is impressive as most airlines (and…
Despite a “challenging environment”, lessor BOC Aviation is pleased with the outcome of 2020. In a weak market in which the Covid-crisis dictated events, the subsidiary of Bank of China still succeeded in arranging more lease commitments for the whole…