After months of intense public and political pressure, the Board of Directors of Qantas has given in. The airline announced a ‘Board renewal’ that sees much-criticized Chairman Richard Goyder step down, but only by late 2024. Other members will be replaced…
The introduction of a new tax for passengers who transit via Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will have serious consequences for the network of KLM and the connectivity of The Netherlands as a whole. KLM CEO Marjan Rintel has issued this warning after…
Poor reliability of new-technology aircraft, especially engines, is holding back the scrapping of older-generation airliners. While the number of aircraft to be scrapped post-Covid is expected to pick up some two years from now, the durability and supply chain issues…
UPDATE – Boeing expects the rework on the aft pressure bulkhead of the 737 and MAX to take longer. Deliveries in August were 22 and are guided and about seventy aircraft for Q3. The airframer reiterates its guidance of 400 to…
After Spirit Airlines’ announcement on Thursday that it has converted orders for all 31 Airbus A319neo’s into larger A321neo’s, Airbus confirmed today in its orders and deliveries list for July that total orders for the type have come down to 61. With…
How much longer Spirit AeroSystems management is willing to accept that three key commercial aircraft programs are at forward losses before it acts and negotiates better deals with Airbus and Boeing? That question was put forward in different ways by different…