neo Fueled Engine Race
[UPDATE – The table and blog updated] Besides seeing its neo sales continue to grow – perhaps not as fast this year as last – Airbus created a race for the two engine firms. The stakes are huge. Both CFM…
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Cathay Pacific Adds to its A350-900 order
Cathay announced it was adding to its existing A350XWB order by committing for six additional -900s. The airline now has 36 A350s on order plus two more committed via pre-arranged 12 years leases. These six aircraft are scheduled for delivery…
Bombardier CSeries gets another sale
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that Geneva-based PrivatAir has placed a firm order for five CS100 airliners and has taken options on an additional five CS100 aircraft. PrivatAir was founded more than 30 years ago and operates a large fleet of…
ETS deployment spurs carbon credit sales
Reuters reports EU airlines are buying up carbon credits on the cheap. Recently carbon credit prices have dropped to about half what they were trading at a year ago. This move is quite different from other non-EU airlines; whose reaction…
Delays by tail number
An aspect of the DoT On-Time data is arrival delays by tail number. Between January and October 2011 there are only two tail numbers that turn up in three of the ten months. They are N74007 and N76062, both are…
Looking into 2012 with Airbus’ Barry Eccleston
Barry Eccleston is Airbus Americas CEO and spent over fifteen minutes talking about the great year they had plus a peek into a murky 2012. The issues we spoke about are: an overview on A380 programs for 2012; plus what…