National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is to halve its fleet to survive the pandemic. It is considering cutting its A330 orders and reducing the number of wide-body jets in its fleet to survive the pandemic. It is said the carrier is…
Boeing provided an update on their ecoDemonstrator program. The program started in 2012 using an American Airline 737-800. Since then they have utilized several other models: 2014 was the 787, 2015 was the 757; 2016 an Embraer E-170; 2018 used…
On its roadmap to the next generation of US single-aisle commercial airliners that should become available by the early 2030s, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wants to have a full-scale technology demonstrator ready for the first flight in…
With the highly useful T2 dataset updated through year-end 2020, we now can share pictures of how fleet changes impacted US airlines. The biggest impact we see is the rise of the A321 and the shrink in the 757. Notice…
We sent a series of questions to Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines in Panama. How has the pandemic impacted your airline and the markets it serves? During 2020 we had to stop flying for six months and were only…
The announcement from Aerion that it folding its supersonic business jet program is significant. Aerion’s demise is a major reality check for the industry. Despite backing from numerous key industrial partners, a supposed ten billion dollar order book, final design verification…