by Richard Schuurman | Aug 5, 2020 | Airlines |
Virgin Australia will resize its operations to an all-Boeing 737 fleet and for the time being, only operate on domestic services. Long-haul is only to resume when the market sustains these services, the airline said on August 5 when it gave an update of its business...
by Richard Schuurman | Oct 7, 2019 | KLM |
How to celebrate your 100th birthday? KLM knows only one way to do it: BIG and in style. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij used its founding date October 7 to good effect to invite special guests, former KLM bosses, the minister of Finance, and media to commemorate...
by Richard Schuurman | Feb 20, 2019 | Air France KLM |
Like a year ago, Air France-KLM must have asked itself the question: what if? What if Air France hadn’t lost €335mln on social unrest and strikes that never seemed to end? The effect has been clearly visible in the 2018 results, presented on February 20. Air...
by admin | Apr 23, 2018 | Boeing, Boeing 737 NG, CFM 56 7B, CFM International, Southwest Airlines |
In the wake of last week’s fatal incident, the FAA has issued an emergency Airworthiness Directive. Southwest Airlines flight 1380 last Tuesday from New York to Dallas experienced an uncontained engine failure of a CFM-56 engine during which shrapnel penetrated the...
by admin | Jun 19, 2011 | Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, COMAC, Embraer, General Category, Irkut |
Boeing is still obfuscating regarding a 737 replacement, while increasing production rates for the existing models. Two things are clear — the A320neo has a significant economic advantage over the current 737NG series and is selling quite well, and that the...
