Today’s big industry news is about United’s single-aisle order. The selection of models will be the cause of much chatter and discussion. Big orders are signals of how an airline views the future. The most important item from this order…
Boeing’s largest (and perhaps final) iteration of the MAX family took to the skies last week. With a seating capacity of up to 230, the MAX10 has more capacity than the 707 with which it shares a fuselage and history. …
It is almost four years to the day since the program launch in 2017 that the Boeing MAX 10 has made its maiden flight today. That’s a couple of years later than planned, but the reasons for that are obvious.…
The parent company of Philippine Airlines, PAL Holdings, booked a record 73 billion pesos (US$1.51 billion) loss in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the global aviation sector. The company said its management and stakeholders are working on the…
Airbus hosted a Virtual Commercial and & Program Update for the media yesterday. In the absence of what could have been Day 2 at PAS 2021, the event was an overview of Airbus’ current aircraft types and comments on the…
Now that the US and EU have frozen their war on state aid for large civil aircraft, the question is: how will aircraft funding change after the trade dispute? In the ‘Understanding on a cooperative framework for Large Civil Aircraft’,…