UPDATE 2 – Japan Airlines (JAL) suffered its first air accident in almost 39 years when a two-year-old Airbus A350-900 collided with a Coast Guard De Havilland Canada Dash 8 on landing at Tokyo Haneda on January 2. All 379…
Airbus has closed 2023 as its best year when it comes to new aircraft orders. Preliminary numbers show that the European airframer has racked up 1.928 orders, but that excludes likely cancelations during December. We count preliminary Boeing orders to…
UPDATE – Both Airbus and Boeing have met and even exceeded their delivery targets for 2023. Airbus has delivered 728 airliners, Boeing 524 commercial plus a few military aircraft. Embraer and ATR fall short of their targets with respectively 61…
Lessor BOC Aviation has placed an order for six narrowbody aircraft with Airbus for long-term placement with German leisure carrier Condor, it said on Friday. This includes four A321neo’s and two A320neo’s that will be delivered in 2027 and 2028. The…
Fourteen months since the first fuselage sections entered the line, Airbus has finally delivered the A321neo that has been assembled in the former A380 Jean-Luc Lagardère complex in Toulouse. The aircraft was delivered on Wednesday to Pegasus Airlines as its 41st…
Airbus has seen several first deliveries in the past week: the first A321neo’s for Transavia and Sunclass Airlines, the first A220-300 for Qantas, and on Friday, the first A350-900 for Air India. The aircraft touched down in Delhi early afternoon…