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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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…
Value Alliance – 8 LCCs form Alliance in Asia
News this morning of an alliance of several low fare carriers in Asia could change the aviation landscape in the region. The Value Alliance will include eight low fare carriers in Asia. The carriers are Vanilla Air (owned by ANA…
ANA buying A380s
A report from Japan says ANA is buying three A380s. On June 21 2015 we wrote about how we thought the Skymark bankruptcy would play out. We asked Intrepid Aviation for feedback and wrote about that too. As we noted…
MRJ Delayed for a Year
Mitsubishi announced their telegraphed delay overnight -MRJ delayed for a year. This the the slide deck the company provided: 20151224_Update on MRJ Development Status In its PR note the company states: “The first flight and the subsequent flight tests have…