The recent order by Turkish Airlines of A350s highlighted something worthy of looking at. Turkish Airlines has been a big Boeing customer for many years. But the airline switched its primary loyalty to Airbus over a decade ago. When one…
Canada has filed a WTO complaint against the United States with respect to anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings today. This is likely in response to recent actions with respect to the Bombardier C Series aircraft as well as actions taken…
Boeing clearly had an excellent year. As Boeing’s Randy Tinseth noted in his blog: “Regardless of the final figures from Airbus next week, 2017 shaped up to be a better year than anyone could have predicted.” No argument. We were…
Last year saw Airbus and Boeing push single-aisle deliveries. Airbus was in its second year delivering the A320neo and its first delivering the A321neo. Boeing started delivering its MAX8. Switching from the previous version to the new version has its…
Long ago, in 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke about building a UAV delivery system. While we wait to see that happen, Amazon has started building serious air cargo capacity. Currently, Amazon Prime Air has 30 767-300Fs. The fleet plan…
Recently bankrupted Niki has been bought by the IAG Group for €20m. IAG plans to run NIKI as a subsidiary of its Spanish LCC Vueling. Reports are that 740 NIKI staff will be moved to the new company. In addition,…